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Pastor urges council to stop criminalizing homelessness, calls for emergency housing and services
Summary
Amber Jesslyn, lead pastor of Revival Street Church and a registered nurse, urged the council during citizen statements to stop fining and displacing people experiencing homelessness and asked the city to provide emergency shelter, porta-potties and other services for an estimated 30–40 unhoused people in the downtown area.
Amber Jesslyn, lead pastor of Revival Street Church and an RN, addressed the council during the citizen statements portion of the meeting and described what she called the criminalization of homelessness in Oshkosh.
Jesslyn recounted encounters with people she said regularly sleep downtown and said many have been fined for routine behavior; she described a specific case in which a person facing a $295…
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