[Houston Chronicle] Houston just started enforcing a decade-old ban on feeding the homeless. Volunteers are fighting back.
[Houston Chronicle] Houston just started enforcing a decade-old ban on feeding the homeless. Volunteers are fighting back.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1387388
https://archive.is/ZZcga#selection-261.0-261.102
Volunteers giving out free meals with the organization Food Not Bombs have wracked up 40 tickets seeking more than $10,000 in fines since March 1, four weeks before visitors began pouring into downtown for the Final Four.
The Houston law they were charged with violating — an ordinance against giving away meals unless you have permission from the property where you’re doing it, even if the property is public — was put in place by City Council in 2012 but largely had gone unenforced for over a decade, municipal records show.
As a society, we've made a choice that we should have both indigent people without homes and billionaires who can buy more government representation than the average person.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Good to see from the volunteers.