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Public commenters press council on homelessness and publicly accuse local opponents of housing of fraud; city staff push back on slander claims
Summary
During open forum, multiple speakers recounted homelessness experiences and criticized sweeps; one commenter accused named residents and groups of defrauding the public and urged prosecutors to file charges, while staff and the mayor responded that the city council did not sanction the court action referenced.
Several members of the public used the meeting’s open forum to recount personal experience with homelessness, press the council on shelter and services, and level allegations about opponents to affordable housing.
Greg Scott described years of homelessness and told council ‘‘It’s only gotten worse out there,’’ criticized encampment sweeps and urged broader regional responses rather than criminalization. Another public speaker argued a recent U.S. Supreme Court…
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