University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 11, 1989
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City leaders recognize local homeless problem
- Continued from p.1
"The tradition of city government combines with loose interest group involvement to not make enough happen with this issue." Swall said. "The problem with the homeless doesn't get addressed. We've got to have conversations with the city commission."
Swail said city government could make a greater effort at finding a permanent location for the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen, could work with the Salvation Army to set up a local commission on hunger and homelessness for an in-depth study of the problem.
"The needs of the homeless are not being met," said Capt. John Church, director of the Salvation Army牢舍, and church, New Hampshire St.
Churchill works directly with the homeless and helps find them shelter, food and transportation. He has been engaged in lobbying the city for additional financial support for year-long operation of the shelter, which is only able to operate in the colder six months of the year.
Churchill said he was seeking additional financing from the city's Community Development Block Grant, a portion of which is given to local public service causes including the shelter.
Mike Runde, Lawrence city commissioner, said he doubled additional grant funding would be allocated for the problem. The last two years, he said, the homelessness issue has agenda on the city's political agenda.
"There's no reason why we can't implement effective programs." Rundle said. "I had a feeling that I might sight of things in the last two years."
Marey Francisco, a recent city commission candidate and a former commissioner and mayor, said commission awareness of the problem was a challenge. He noted attitudes toward the homeless had come a long way on the commission.
"We didn't used to call them homeless but called them street people." Francisco said. "We used to talk about the problem only as it related to the city jail. If homeless people didn't have a place to go, they would
sometimes commit an act to get free food and shelter. They may not have had any alternatives."
Francisco said the problem was not as easy for the commission to handle as some thought.
"They like to draw boundaries and divide their responsibilities," she said. "The question is where the resources are coming from.
"I hope the new commission would help the homeless. There are lots of hurdles to climb."
She said finding out the reasons for homelessness, helping the homeless out of their immediate emergencies, helping them establish more secure lives and examining the structure of the economy and its possible role in promoting the problem were ideal steps to take in fighting the problem.
"We can figure out why we have homeless people," Francisco said. "Is it the number of minimum wage jobs in town? We haven't seen a change in the minimum wage in eight years. We have seen the cost of food and shelter go up. People become homeless because, working for the wages they do, they can't collect a cushion.
Shirley Martin-Smith, city commissioner-elect, said social service organizations involved with the department had lobby city government for help.
Martin-Smith is vice president of the executive board of the United Way of Douglas County. She said, through this experience, she had been sensitized to public service issues.
Francis Kelly, a partner in RESULTS, and Swall agreed that a louder reaction from people in Lawrence concerning the problem would help fight against it and 'force it on the city's political agenda.
"I think I would like to see us build on awareness of the issue." she said.
"The commission will make homelessness an issue if people in the community want it." Swail said. "I am not going to be saying this is an important issue."
"The power of suggestion is one of the most powerful forces in the universe," Kelly said. "People should volunteer at the LINK kitchen or at a shelter. We can make the difference. It all depends on us."
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