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City, homeless advocates agree to negotiate on outdoor feeding
The city and homeless advocates who had sued the administration over a ban on serving meals outdoors to the homeless have entered an agreement to sit down and negotiate a solution on providing food to the homeless. US District Court Judge William Yohn Jr. today approved an interim agreement, which lays the groundwork for negotiations between the city and the groups. While the agreement stands, the city will withdraw its appeal of Yohn's previous decision, suspend implementation of the feeding ban and remove signs indicted that "outdoor serving of food" is not allowed. The city also agreed to pay the advocacy groups' legal costs.
City, homeless advocates agree to negotiate on outdoor feeding
The city and homeless advocates who had sued the administration over a ban on serving meals outdoors to the homeless have entered an agreement to sit down and negotiate a solution on providing food to the homeless. US District Court Judge William Yohn Jr. today approved an interim agreement, which lays the groundwork for negotiations between the city and the groups. While the agreement stands, the city will withdraw its appeal of Yohn's previous decision, suspend implementation of the feeding ban and remove signs indicted that "outdoor serving of food" is not allowed. The city also agreed to pay the advocacy groups' legal costs.
Cranford Coulter of The King's Jubilee says this will hopefully be way bigger than just restoring, for now, the rights of groups to serve meals outdoors. "Hopefully starting the week of Oct. 8, we will sit down at the table and start negotiating for a plan that will end homelessness in Philadelphia, a plan where we can work with the people that we work with to persuade them to move into attractive housing situations, and to take people that are just hitting a rough spot and get them housing vouchers, so they don't have to hit rock bottom, hit the street and end up in a shelter like they do now. And it ends up a very expensive situation, so we can find better ways to deal with things that are actually cheaper."
One twist in Mayor Nutter's favor: According to Coulter, if negotiations are successful and a real solution is reached, the ban on outdoor feeding will actually be restored. "On one score, we don't like it, because it kind of violates our rights," Coulter says. "But on the other hand, it becomes kind of a moot point if no one's out there that needs our services."
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