Just How Local Are "Our" Homeless? How Cruel the Salvation Army?

 

A regular reader recently offered up this comment on Facebook:

The real issue: homeless people were moved from other locations in the country to live here, this action created federal money into the several spots in the quad cites, which were created for the money. The citizens of our community lost an support mechanism because of the greed of the planners in the area of collecting money. A good decision.

We would be greatly interested in knowing more about any effort to recruit this demographic to Florence. We have no doubt that it's true, but to what extent we don't know. If you have any pertinent information, please contact us. All replies are confidential.

A woman recently wrote this critique of the local Salvation Army:

We are treated like animals put outside everyday from 7:30 am until 5 pm no matter the weather, without as much as a sandwich or a bottle of water. This virus outbreak makes it impossible to get shelter anywhere, no library, no coffee shop, nowhere to go. I have a full time job at a major hotel, was supposed to sign lease on an apartment 3 days ago. I am now laid off, and apartment complex will not be processing leases for two weeks. I have nowhere to go all day for at least 2 weeks, or until my job goes back to normal. People are dying here, salvation army needs to step up and actually DO something to help it's own residents. They will stand under a tent in the pouring rain (last Friday), handing out jars of peanut butter, jelly and loaves of bread to random people in the community but send their residents out in the rain without even a sandwich.... pathetic.

"Treated like animals?" Is this really where you wish to donate your hard-earned funds?