Posted on 29/05/07
Crackdown on begging targets homeless, activists say
Business owners compared panhandling to "organized crime" while advocates for the poor and homeless invoked the Holocaust at a heated city hall hearing on the issue yesterday.Mayor David Miller's executive committee heard from the public before directing city bureaucrats to study the needs of panhandlers and review the effects of panhandling on downtown businesses.
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