PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A proposal to ban public camping ran into pushback from residents and councilors last week.
The City Council sent a proposed ordinance that bans encampments on any street, sidewalk, park, open space, waterway, or banks of a waterway to the Ordinances and Rules Subcommittee, the Homelessness Advisory Committee, and the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Task Force.
Several community members at the meeting asked city officials, “Where do unhoused people go if they are banned from camping on public property?”…