The Providence City Council has passed an ordinance which will add additional protections for those who are homeless.
Ward Six City Councilor Miquel Sanchez filed a measure that will bar the city for those who are homeless to be fined, simply by sleeping on private property.
“Our city’s unhoused community members are fighting for their lives. We should be doing everything we can to keep them safe, to get them housed, and to do it with dignity,” said Majority Whip Sanchez. “But when we fail to do that – we absolutely cannot then fine them money they don’t have as punishment for our own inaction. This ordinance commits the city to the bare minimum of basic compassion over misguided cruelty.”…