Commissioner Tick Segerblom hosted a town hall meeting at the Clark County Library in southeast Las Vegas on Oct. 25. On the agenda was giving the floor to community members to voice concerns about the growing number of unhoused people.
As housing and renting prices go up, unemployment rates rise and government assistance gets cut, there is an increase in homelessness and poverty and food insecurity. Many unhoused people came to share their own experiences, safety concerns and ask the commissioner to support unhoused constituents.
“There are not a lot of viable options for those who do not want to be out there,” said a recently unhoused man. “I wanna live a lot longer, I wanna live in Las Vegas”…