Businesses are now being asked to contribute funds to help stop this issue. Action News Jax spoke with a developer who says no business should have to pay for a problem they didn’t ask for.
We spoke with a developer who said he’s frustrated with the homeless problem at his place of work. He even had to make some changes to the business for his worker’s safety.
“We have homeless people sleep in our doorway,” Apex Color Account Support Randall Fordham said. “We have more of them when it’s time to open business.”
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This is an everyday task for Randall and his workers at Apex Color in Downtown Lavilla. He goes on to say the building is constantly being littered with garbage.
“They make it their home for the night,” Fordham said. “They leave clothes behind. Here’s a t-shirt they left.”
He even had to put a lock on the building’s fire suppression system to stop people from using it.
“We had to put a lock on this to begin with. They would come over and spin the wheel to take a bath right here,” Fordham said.