Tag Archives: Feeding Restrictions
Our 100th Post!!!
It’s quite fitting that we’ve reached the big 1-0-0 during the beginning of a new year! In four years of blogging about current issues homeless communities face, we have covered stories from the everyday struggle of living without a stable home to … Continue reading
Posted in Staff Thoughts
Tagged Activism, Advocacy, Civil Rights, Criminalization, Faces of Homelessness, Feeding Restrictions, History, Mitch Snyder, Top 10
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Soup Kitchen Limits End in Gainesville
In March 2009, a city developer informed the Gainesville, Florida city Plan Board about an 18 year old ordinance that was regularly violated. The ordinance, located here in city code, limited soup kitchens to serving up to 130 meals within … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Rights, Criminalization, Feeding Restrictions, Florida
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The 10 Most Ridiculous Anti-Homeless Laws – Part II
The National Coalition for the Homeless would like to offer a preview of our upcoming report on the criminalization of homelessness by choosing the top ten most ridiculous anti-homeless policies enacted in cities across America. Our criminalization report will offer … Continue reading
Posted in Intern Interjections
Tagged Civil Rights, Criminalization, Feeding Restrictions, Panhandling, Tent Cities
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Is it legal to restrict food-sharing?
By Jackie Dowd The food-sharing in downtown Orlando went on as usual last Wednesday night, despite the decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld the city’s ordinance restricting groups and individuals from sharing food with homeless and … Continue reading
