Community activists in Macassar and Strand are demanding answers from the City over the recent removal of a group of homeless people who lived opposite the Somerset West police station.
“These by-laws discriminating against homelessness must be challenged as people become homeless for various reasons,” he said.
“We are told every now and then that there are open bed spaces in shelters and that homeless people refuse shelter, which should be investigated. “We have recently seen the City evicting homeless people using its discriminatory by-laws with no care for them and issuing fines which are not a sustainable solution to homelessness,” he said.
The City's Law Enforcement spokesperson Wayne Dyason said no person was moved from the site. He said the City’s Law Enforcement Department issued 12 Section 56 notices – as per the Streets and Public Places By-law of 2007 – to the group.
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