November 05, 2004
Austin ARCH Silliness

News8Austin: Dealing with downtown homeless

The Austin City Council is considering proposals to ban panhandling in downtown Austin.

The council is also mulling over tightening "public order laws" such as sleeping on sidewalks and roadside soliciting.


The morbid mentality of Passing A Law To Solve A Problem marches along.

"If we just push them harder in this direction..."

The Austin Resource Center for the Homeless, or ARCH, recently opened downtown. Critics say the ARCH is the reason for the surge of that type of activity.

Front Steps runs the shelter, smack in the middle of prime downtown real estate. Their mission?
Front Steps, based on the belief that all people deserve the dignity of a safe place to call home, seeks to end homelessness by providing shelter, affordable housing and community education.

I'm sure these folks would get along well with the living wage nutters.

Back to the article:

"What their approach is, is to address a symptom and not address the core issue. And the core issue facing homeless people are affordable housing, health care and livable incomes, which specifically in terms of our people, equates to a living wage, paying a fair wage for a fair day's work," Richard Troxell of House the Homeless said.

Copyright ©2004TWEAN News Channel of Austin, L.P. d.b.a. News 8 Austin


Looks like I found the connection! More socialism is the key!

I guess advocating the removal of the collective yoke off the backs of businesses and individuals is not going to fly with these guys.



Posted by Drizzten at November 05, 2004 01:29 PM

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