LOS ANGELES — They began showing up at dusk last week, wandering the streets, slumped in wheelchairs and sitting on sidewalks, paper plates perched on their knees. By 6:30 p.m., more than 100 homeless people had lined up at a barren corner in Hollywood, drawn by free meals handed out from the back of a truck every night by volunteers.
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The Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition has been serving free meals to the homeless in Los Angeles every night for more than 25 years.
過去25年來(每晚志工們熟練的將食物從卡車拿下)這個團體Great west Hollywood Food Coalition
以在好萊屋供應遊民熟食. 每天一到6;30上百人排隊領取食物.
But these days, 27 years after the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition began feeding people in a county that has one of the worst homeless problems in the nation, the charity is under fire, a flashpoint in the national debate over the homeless and the programs that serve them.
Facing an uproar from homeowners, two members of the Los Angeles City Council have called for the city to follow the lead of dozens of other communities and ban the feeding of homeless people in public spaces.
他們的善心卻是引火上身, 這個送食物的舉動卻引起其他的遊民問題, 引發討論的還有社會,治安問題,洛杉磯市呼籲其他的社團攜手禁止這個團體繼續養食遊民. 亞歷山大說:你發免費食品(雖然好心), 沒有其他配套措施,只會讓這些人整天沒事,就群聚在發放食物的周昭, 他會們住在你家的小樹叢邊,或者群聚擠住在你家隔壁,或是你的鄰居如同精神病院.
“If you give out free food on the street with no other services to deal with the collateral damage, you get hundreds of people beginning to squat,” said Alexander Polinsky, an actor who lives two blocks from the bread line. “They are living in my bushes and they are living in my next door neighbor’s crawl spaces. We have a neighborhood which now seems like a mental ward.”
Should Los Angeles enact such an ordinance, it would join a roster of more than 30 cities, including Philadelphia, Raleigh, N.C., Seattle and Orlando, Fla., that have adopted or debated some form of legislation intended to restrict the public feeding of the homeless, according to the National Coalition of the Homeless.
洛杉磯市甚至要聯合其他都市立法禁止這個團體或慈善機構發放免費食物.
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