SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — South Bend’s mayor isn’t going to seek money for a city councilman’s proposal to hire panhandlers for cleanup work in parks and public spaces.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s deputy chief of staff says groups assisting the homeless have found most of the city’s panhandlers aren’t homeless. Suzanna Fritzberg tells the South Bend Tribune that service providers doubt many panhandlers would take the jobs paying the city employee minimum wage of $10.10 an hour.
Hope Ministries executive director David Vanderveen says he doesn’t think the proposal would reduce panhandling much around South Bend. He says more attention should go toward helping people who are truly homeless.
The mayor’s committee on homelessness has recommended opening an intake center near the downtown and 50 more units of “permanent supportive housing” around the city.
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“The mayor’s committee on homelessness has recommended opening an intake center near the downtown and 50 more units of “permanent supportive housing” around the city”. There goes another politician that wants to WASTE our money on absolute nonsense! This is not Russia! This is not China! Our part time mayor wants to provide “permanent supportive housing”. How would this even be legal for him to take tax payer money and provide permanent housing for people that don’t care to work…???? And people wonder what Joe Average working man is so upset about when it come to liberal left wing nuts like our Mayor!
Yet your mayor is a communist…his dream is for it to be Russia or China where he can be Czar or Chairman.