Not satisfied with destroying Chicago, Democrats in the state want to make sure all Illinoisans suffer. A new bill would override local laws and force access for homeless encampments in all public parks.
Wirepoints notesthat under House Bill 1429, the Local Regulation of Unsheltered Homelessness Act, local towns, park districts, cities, forest preserves, and all other municipalities of any kind “would have their home rule authority on the matter stripped away.”
It’s House Bill 1429, the Local Regulation of Unsheltered Homelessness Act, which says local governments wouldn’t be able to establish or enforce a rule fining or criminally punishing homeless people for participating in “life sustaining activities.”
But “life sustaining activities,” under the bill’s definition, means most anything people routinely do. It would include,but not be limited to, “moving, resting, sitting, standing, lying down, sleeping, protecting oneself from the elements, eating, drinking 5(excluding alcohol), and storing personal property as needed to shelter oneself.”
The bill has 31 sponsors, and they all have one thing in common…they are all Democrats.
The Restore Gompers Park Coalition, which opposes the bill, notes, “Public parks are not a permanent place to live. They do not have the infrastructure to support basic human needs. Gompers Park became a permanent place to live for over two years to an encampment of unhoused individuals. It limited the public’s access, caused public safety risks with illegal activity, and destruction to the environment.”
“There was illegal drug use, with used needles discarded throughout the park, prostitution, battery, fires, hidden weapons and knives found in trees and bushes, extensive shoplifting at nearby stores, threatening behavior, lewd conduct and indecent exposure, excessive garbage, debris and human waste, and a pit bull kept off leash by someone in the encampment that viscously attacked 3 dogs.”
“There were over 21 fires at Gompers Park during this time which required Chicago Fire Department to extinguish. The public safety risk posed around the little league baseball diamond threatened to have all games moved to surrounding parks.When public spaces are allowed to become permanent places to live these images demonstrate what can be the result. Once the Accelerated Moving Event occurred and the unhoused were paired with housing and support services, the work to restore Gompers Park began.”
The group also shareda gallery of photosshowing the reality residents are facing.
Local radio host Jeanne Ives lays out the reality of the bill.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
