Free Republic

Nashville could save thousands of dollars by providing more affordable housing and tackling the issue of homelessness in a more efficient manner instead of looking into increasing law enforcement, local homeless service providers say. The Homeless Power Project, a non-profit group consisting of homeless and formerly homeless local people, urged Councilman Ludye Wallace to withdraw two ordinances at tonight’s council meeting, which would make it illegal for people to sleep in a car or enter an abandoned motor vehicle to sleep, rest or inhabit. “Prohibiting and charging individuals and families for staying in the only shelter they have will only...