Atlantic City tries to stop people sleeping under boardwalk

People who are homeless in Atlantic City have looked for shelter under the boardwalk. A new program -- the Boardwalk Improvement Group, or BIG -- is aimed at dissuading them from staying there and enforcing other laws affecting quality of life.
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[@Cordell856]

How about allocating that money to repair one of those vacant hotel casinos and give them room and board like a shelter does. The city makes enough money...

[@mick8888V]

Let's not commit more funds to reducing homelessness itself...just make it illegal. Personally, if I were homeless...which I have been, I would prefer to keep a small footprint/profile and stay far away from high-traffic areas.

[@sonnyd.4661]

But liquor stores are in high traffic areas. If you pass an area and you think to yourself hmmm there seems to be a lot of homeless in this area, my guess is there’s a liquor store within walking distance. Additionally high volume areas provide homeless people income through panhandling that they use to supplement their disability checks. So “homeless” are rarely in isolated areas.

[@mick8888V]

@@sonnyd.4661 liquor and gambling may be a cause of a few of the homeless. Nowadays with online gambling, you can bet and lose the house without ever leaving home.

[@Casual_Stroll]

"Don't use AC as your dumping ground" So people that are homeless are trash? Btw trying to police this problem away is the most expensive option. You're going to pay more for the "perk" of being cruel.

[@mick8888V]

Now that more Democratic cities move away from mandatory minimums for drug offenders, they have to refill the industrial corrections complex somehow, no?

[@imilliemedina666]

When rents are out of sight, people have no choice but to be homeless.

[@imilliemedina666]

If they had any guts, they'd go after the root of the problem, the open air fentanyl market along Atlantic Ave from Indiana to Tennessee. They're just interested in photo ops and perception