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Originally posted by: pjstroh
The homeless will go wherever they think they can get money - which means the Strip and Fremont St.
There's not a whole lot you can do about it. You can pass an ordinance to prevent sleeping on the street...but you cant do much about people just hanging around.
There is a huge gauntlet of them that live on Main Street just before you get to Jerry's Nugget. Its a pretty amazing site - at least for me. We don't have anything like that in Indianapolis. Vegas seems to create a bunch homeless for some reason.
Most are addicts, ex-cons, mentally disabled ....or some combination of the three. Most are not employable for any kind of traditional type job. I don't know what the solution is to alleviating the homeless problem is but I'm sure its a lot more complicated than banning them from Fremont St.
Originally posted by: pjstroh
The homeless will go wherever they think they can get money - which means the Strip and Fremont St.
There's not a whole lot you can do about it. You can pass an ordinance to prevent sleeping on the street...but you cant do much about people just hanging around.
There is a huge gauntlet of them that live on Main Street just before you get to Jerry's Nugget. Its a pretty amazing site - at least for me. We don't have anything like that in Indianapolis. Vegas seems to create a bunch homeless for some reason.
Most are addicts, ex-cons, mentally disabled ....or some combination of the three. Most are not employable for any kind of traditional type job. I don't know what the solution is to alleviating the homeless problem is but I'm sure its a lot more complicated than banning them from Fremont St.
Its a simple fact of numbers, more people and odds are in your favor to get some money. Although the best one yet was "a need a hooker sign" and a can to collect donations.