INDIANAPOLIS — The first thing Matt Hanna wants you to know is that he has sympathy for the people without shelter living in tents alongside Leonard Street in Fountain Square.
”I mean, it’s heartbreaking. I hate it for them,” he said. ”We’re not trying to be the bad guys or the NIMBYs or anything like that. We want the best for everyone that lives in our community.”
Fountain Square homeless encampment to shut down in August
What would be best for everyone in the community, neighbors and homeless persons alike, said Hanna, would be for a judge to force the city to live up to its commitment to close the Leonard Street encampment like it promised more than a month ago.
On July 25, the City issued an order that the two dozen tents along Leonard Street would be gone by Aug. 11 and the campers would be moved into apartments under its “Streets to Home Indy” program…