Six-point-one million dollars.
That’s the minimum amount two Coastal Carolina University researchers estimate Myrtle Beach spent over five years arresting, jailing and prosecuting people experiencing homelessness for offenses like loitering, trespassing and sleeping in public.
And after 14 people were arrested near fresh brewed coffee house earlier this month — most of them for loitering — that research raises a bigger question: Is the city spending millions managing homelessness instead of solving it?…