Starving Homeless in Dallas

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On February 1, 2006
The Dallas City council passed a new law limiting Church's from feeding disabled American citizens without homes. Chapter 17-1.6(a)(5) restricts a church, civic, or other charitable organization serving or distributing food, without charge, to homeless individuals to only locations approved by the director of the Enviromental Health and Human Service Dept. City of Dallas.



Violation could result in jail time and a $2,000 fine.



Enforcement to start February 1, 2006
You become disabled and become homeless. You have 2 years minimum to wait for any Federal assistance (S.S.D.I./S.S.I. and Section 8 housing) What do you do?



February 1, 2006
Today 200 - 300 homeless individuals have been evicted from the city ran shelter forcing them to find places on the street to sleep. A majority of these poor souls fall under the federal definition as disabled. They have been warned that if they came back to sleep, police will take them to jail. After having plenty of time to find adequate accomodations as promised by to help these with special needs, the City referred them to dormitory boarding facilities or two shelters which do not have the needed trained mental health staff or adequate programs to allow them to take medication as needed during the daytime. No boarding facility has argeed to waive their rent for two years until the new Homeless assisatnce center is built. The City's actions and not words define their true character.


Because of the City action to evict disabled from a place where they could take medications in safely, County has prepared to open additional floors in jail center at a cost of 1 million dollars per floor, per month, possibly costing tax payers over 48 million dollars the next two years, as oppose to living up to their promises in the first place which was to provide adequate shelter for these 300. City Hall's plan is clear, evict and abuse through criminalization.



Warning!!! Photos and film will be appearing on this web site depicting might be graphic.



Over 1,200 disabled human beings spread out over 342 sq. miles are at risk of starving to death and will have to walk up to 25 miles per day for a plate of food or dig in trash and dumpsters for left overs. They are limited to only 8 locations in the city to get a free meal. This site will document the act of a government using the lack of food as a weapon against its own disabled citizens as a way to control them. As iterim city manager of Homeless Services Ms. Boadicea White was quoted, "We hope to nudge them..."



More homeless people on the streets could lead to more public nuisance calls and more arrests by police. Many homeless people, who have few financial resources, are unable to post bond or pay the fines that would get them out of jail quickly. They instead work off their fines with days in jail inflating the already crowded jail's population.



City Hall owns a warehouse, which is part of the new HAC to be completed in 2 years. This facility can sleep 92 people. Why are they not using this as suggested?



Jail expects influx of homeless
Dallas County: Closing city shelter may worsen crowding
07:09 AM CST on Wednesday, February 1, 2006
By JAMES M. O'NEILL / The Dallas Morning News



Dallas County commissioners are preparing for an influx of homeless people to the county jail because Dallas officials have prohibited the homeless from spending the night at the city's Day Resource Center.



The commissioners are mulling how to improve the book-in process at the jail to identify homeless people and send those charged with minor offenses to the county's court diversion program, which handles cases involving the mentally ill.



But the diversion program already faces a daunting task, officials say: how to find appropriate housing for those enrolled.



On Tuesday, 297 jail inmates identified themselves as homeless. The swollen jail population, hovering at more than 7,000, has forced the county to open four floors of the overflow Decker jail facility since last summer, at a cost of $1 million per floor each month.



The city's decision to bar the homeless from sleeping overnight at the resource center is "definitely a problem for us we're keenly aware of it," Commissioner John Wiley Price said. "We're trying to get our arms around what's happening at the jail and how to manage that population."



The prohibition, which goes into effect tonight, stems from an agreement with the building's owner after neighboring businesses complained that homeless people were littering and hanging around their properties.



Officials worry that some homeless people will prefer to remain on the streets at night rather than submit to rules imposed by the city's faith-based private shelters. To counter the effects of their antipsychotic medication, some mentally ill people must take tranquilizers to sleep, which makes it harder for them to abide by early wake-up rules in these shelters, said County Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Kristin Wade, who handles the court diversion program. >>>>>>>>>