Donor Pays For Homeless People To Leave Street Encampments And Actually Go Camping Instead

Donor Pays For Homeless People To Leave Street Encampments And Actually Go Camping Instead

Donor Pays For Homeless People To Leave Street Encampments And Actually Go Camping Instead A homeless encampment set up on the street across from an art gallery in Jacksonville, Illinois had been growing, facing harassment and threats from passersby. The city was at a loss: How do we clear this space without forcing unhoused people to vacate the place they call home? Together with the group’s leader, Jeffrey ‘Grandpa’ Grable, they formed an idea. “We [asked], would you like to camp out where there is, showers, restrooms, water and electricity? And people said, ‘Yeah, that sounds good,’” Alan Bradish, the Jacksonville Police Department volunteer Chaplain, told KHQA News. “I said, ‘well, let me, let me look into it.’” The group traded in their street encampment for a campsite on the lake. Photo courtesy of Quang Nguyen Vinh/Pexels The group is now staying for a two-week camping trip at an official campsite at Lake Jacksonville.  The city had no financial involvement in the campsite, with anony…