Homeless stung By Kath Gannaway
Their submission quoted the 2006 census showing more than 500 people were homeless in the Shire of Yarra Ranges including 64 people living on the streets. Many, the submission said, would be sleeping in their car.
“It is our concern that the proposed by-law has the ability to criminalise homelessness in the Yarra Ranges municipality,” the submission states.
It( Salvation Army) said a lack of affordable housing options led to people sleeping in their cars and that agencies working with the homeless have experienced an increase in that situation.
Any fines imposed on people sleeping in cars would add to their poverty, it said.
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