In the last few years, homelessness has become more visible across the United States with vagrants illegally camped on city streets, under bridges, and wherever else they can find temporary shelter. According to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) there are “roughly 582,500 people” experiencing homelessness on any given night across the country, but not in Coronado, California.
Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey, 37, told Fox and Friends in an interview lastweek that his city’s successful solution to the homeless problem was a no-encampment policy implemented by his office. Quite the feat in a state that leads the nation with a homeless population of over 170,000, according to HUD.
“We also make it very clear that we don’t tolerate encampments along our sidewalks, and we don’t tolerate other code violations such as being drunk in public or urinating in public or defecating in public. We just simply don’t tolerate these basic code violations. What ends up happening is an individual either chooses to get help or they end up leaving.”
