Tucson City Council Divided Over Vote to Criminalize Homelessness - AZ Luminaria

In the years Gerald Montag has spent rescuing animals living on the streets, he has also befriended people living on the streets: older men and women, families with children, and former military veterans like himself. The homeless need support from their elected government officials, he said, not laws that criminalize them for sleeping in roadsides or public parks. “What’s new to me is a local government willing to increase the suffering, a city…