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Thursday, April 30, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Coalition director says state should aid homeless
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Staff writer
When a hungry, cold and drunk man who lived in the street asked a KU student for money to buy food several months ago, she gave it to him.
"I just thought at the time that it was important to get him some food," said Rhonda Chaffin, Lawrence junior.
Chaffin, a social welfare major,
also gave the man directions to
headquarters, 1419 Massachusetts
where he probably spent the night.
Chaffin was one of about 50 people who yesterday attended a lecture by Paul Johnson, director of the Public Coalition of Kansas, at a University Forum luncheon at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Orca Ave.
The coalition was begun in 1971 by churches concerned about welfare legislation. In that year, the Kansas Legislature made a 5 percent cut in cash grants for welfare recipients, Johnson said.
I'm firmly convinced that this is a
political problem — that we can find housing funds, that we can feed people if we want to." Johnson said. "It's a question of diverting resour-
Johnson said Kansas was the only state that did not have a public housing finance agency to build free or inexpensive housing for poor people.
Until a year ago, the original state constitution prevented having one. The legislators who drafted the constitution were afraid the state would lose money if it supported such an agency, Johnson said.
But an amendment to the constitution last year now makes it possible for such an agency to develop, Johnson said, and he hopes Kansas will have one someday.
But the agency won't develop unless the people want it, said Ed Dutton, associate professor of social welfare. He said he had not seen much public interest in developing such an agency.
"We have to get an attitude in our society that there are hurting people
who are poor." he said.
Forrest Swall, assistant professor of social welfare, agreed with Johnson that poverty was a political problem that could be solved with a diversion of funds.
"It's not an unsolvable problem. It's not an insurmountable problem," he said. "But it's not solvable by the homeless, and it's not their fault that they are homeless."
Swall said funds from prisons and mental health institutions could be diverted to help house the homeless. He said that a lot of inmates were not serious offenders and that they could be watched by the state while living in and working from their own homes.
He said he thought many people living in mental health clinics did not need to be there either. By caring for these people outside the clinic, the government could take care of them and other homeless people more cheaply.
Dutton said that most homeless people came from mental health and substance abuse facilities.
the government started a trend to de-institutionalize people in the 1950s.
"We moved them from the back wards to the back alleys," he said.
The federal government does provide some mental patients with Supplemental Securities Income funds as part of the social security program. But Swall said that many patients were found ineligible for the aid and didn't have any other income.
Dutton said that 25 to 50 homeless people lived in Lawrence. Many of them stayed at a Salvation Army refuge this winter. The refuge closed in March when the weather got warmer.
Many of them eat at the First Christian Church, 1000 Kentucky St. on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday when the LINK Program, a local charity, serves food.
But feeding them and giving them shelter only temporarily solves the problems of the homeless, Johnson said. He is more concerned with providing long-term funds and programs to eliminate the problem.
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