Council bans homeless food service | PerthNow
HOMELESS AND HUNGRY: The City of Bayswater has ordered the Shopfront in Maylands to stop providing food to homeless and disadvantaged people because of a permit technicality. Picture: St Vincent de Paul Society
What everyone else is thinking
Cary
21/09/2009
I think its great, we dont want this type of people hanging around our neighbourhood. Most of these people of drug addicts and alcoholics who choose this lifestyle, the sooner we get rid of them the better. The next step will be to close the methodone clinic up the street. These people have only recently been moved on from Northbridge and have taken residence here in Maylands sleeping under the bridge, down laneways and in the parks. WE DO NOT WANT YOU.A reader comments @ http://inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Council-bans-free-food-...
We are in a time of economic hardship. We are in a time of social change and sanitisation. We are in a time where Perth stands still and simply fails. And now, Perth (specifically the City of Bayswater) fails our homeless and hard-done-by's.
Is this the reality of where I live? It sure is! Would I care if there was such a centre in my local neighbourhood? No, in fact, there was one! A discount grocery location provided for low-income families and people (and occasionally offering free food and goods to homeless and even less-fortunate peoples). This centre, however, also closed.
Can Perth be so heartless? Really? Of course it can...but only between 9am and 5pm - after that? Sorry we're closed!
Sylvestor
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Updated: Today (Mon Sep 21 - 3.19pm) - it seems our Council in question didn't quite like the bad publicity?
September 21, 2009 03:18pm
THE City of Bayswater has denied asking a Maylands charity to close and says it will help arrange food permits for homeless and disadvantaged people.
There were fears last week that the organisation, which is run by the Catholic Church using about 100 volunteers and provides food to these people, would be forced to close because of a permit technicality.
The Shopfront had already put up signs alerting people that it could no longer serve food.
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