article_snippet: After numerous complaints from neighboring residents about A group of around 50 homeless people's decision to camp on private property, Texas destroyed the campsite on Saturday and the inhabitants left.
article_snippet: Town officials previously expressed the desire to eradicate prostitution and drug problems in the area that may be worsened by homelessness, reports the Star Telegram.
article_snippet: Texas gave the homeless residents verbal notice that the homeless residents needed to leave six weeks ago.
article_snippet: Amy Bernoski Ebnet, founder of a nonprofit called Rita's Hope said that destroying camps merely moves homeless people instead of addressing then problem of homelessness. '
article_snippet: What is going to happen on March 28, of moving the property these individuals have and putting it in dumpsters and then giving these individuals nowhere to go, is not a solution to homelessness.
article_snippet: And when I say moving these individuals, I don’t mean relocating these individuals.
article_snippet: I mean knocking over these individuals stuff and having these individuals go find somewhere else to live.'
article_snippet: Brandon Bennett, the city’s director of code compliance said the living outdoors is not the bestc solution for the homeless population.
article_snippet: We are pushing these folks toward the services and the lifestyle that will break the chains that will get these folks out of homelessness,' Jackie Webb said, adding that these folks are 'managing' the problem, not moving the problem. '
article_snippet: I was down there and watched a young girl exchange sex for money — prostitution is not a way out of homelessness.
article_snippet: We are going down there and people are doing drugs and drinking — that is not a way out of homelessness,' Jackie Webb said. '
article_snippet: people are not getting the medical services people need to have a healthy lifestyle — that is not getting out of homelessness.'
article_snippet: I’m sorry These people are homeless, but there are a lot of services available to these folks, and I encourage These people to take part in the process.'
highlights_snippet: 50 homeless people camping illegally on private property were force to leave 50 homeless people makeshift home .