Give Me Your Homeless (and Two Bucks for Bus Fare)
And here I had a nice little write-up about my lunch today at Sampan Café that I just lost. I’ll give you the short version: cute place, OK food. Oh, and jalapeños and basil really don’t go that well together. Just ask my stomach.
Nongastronomically speaking, Downtown Atlanta is desparately trying to do its part to brighten its image to the eyes of OTPers and future tourists by introducing a ban for panhandling. [link] Along with this, the 24/7 Gateway Center is opening soon in downtown Atlanta and will serve as…well, a gateway center. Their main target is homeless people and they will offer a number of services including job training and mental health treatment. [link]
You have to give some kudos to the city for their work in trying to make downtown a desirable place for the $100K condo owners and future cash cows. Smells like progress to me.
Or that could be the spicy mango chicken.
A $1,000 fine for third panhandling offense. If folks are panhandling it’s unlikely that they have a grand to part with. Are we going to just add to the mountain of paperwork and uncollected fines/taxes the city already deals with?
This is the same tired crap that they’ve tried before. We need to come up with more progressive measures to address homelessness than cracking down on panhandling.
ATLANTA NEEDS TO HAVE MORE COMPASSION TOWARDS IN OWN PEOPLE!
ATLANTA NEEDS TO HAVE MORE COMPASSION TOWARDS IT’S OWN PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD WILL SURELY BLESS THIS CITY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!