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TexasTowelie

(116,809 posts)
Sun Jun 20, 2021, 02:39 PM Jun 2021

Akron to start clearing homeless camps, citing 'housing first' policy

"This is a sad place," said Tonie Robinson, looking across Grace Park to a bench where a homeless man was shot in the head and died in May.

"I had another friend killed right there," he added, pointing to the grass a few dozen feet away. He said that death was "two or three years ago."

Another homeless man died after being stabbed in the neck at the end of March, just a block away from the park in front of the Haven of Rest Ministries on East Market Street.

On Thursday, about a dozen members of the group Serve the People Akron served dinner to Robinson and several dozen other homeless people, some of whom had come over from the nearby Haven, which is not affiliated with the group.

Read more: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2021/06/20/adoping-housing-first-policy-akron-begins-clearing-homeless-camps-monday/7731457002/
(Akron Beacon Journal)

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Akron to start clearing homeless camps, citing 'housing first' policy (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2021 OP
Housing needs to be a human right I_UndergroundPanther Jun 2021 #1

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,934 posts)
1. Housing needs to be a human right
Sun Jun 20, 2021, 04:23 PM
Jun 2021

Safe,non abusive,non controlling housing,individuals need individual rooms.

Roommates chosen at random can turn out to be bad situations.

On a side note I bet the people getting vouchers more often were white. Just a hunch here.

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