November 4, 2024

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New Smyrna Seaside looking at trailers and tiny homes for its homeless

New Smyrna Seaside looking at trailers and tiny homes for its homeless

New Smyrna Seaside looking at trailers and tiny homes for its homeless

NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Rachail Allen’s safety cameras have captured homeless men and women using a dip in the pool outdoors her Faulkner Road dwelling, and stealing her crops, flags and house decorations. 

She’s also been aggressively hit up for medicine, cash and meals by homeless folks in Riverside Park. Other New Smyrna Beach front people have woken up to discover a person sleeping on their entrance porch or viewed homeless people slip in and out of woods in the vicinity of their properties.

About the earlier two several years, the town has appear confront to encounter with the truth that it has a increasing homeless populace. Leaders of the southeast Volusia County metropolis notice the variety of unsheltered individuals is most likely to maintain climbing if they really don’t intervene, and they’re struggling to uncover their way out of the dilemma that’s been thrust upon them.

“I really don’t want to come to be the up coming Seattle,” claimed New Smyrna Seashore Mayor Russ Owen. “I really don’t want to become a homeless Mecca.”

Some New Smyrna Beach residents say they've had increasing problems with the homeless in Riverside Park. Pictured are three people who were at the park last summer and appeared to be drifters. City officials are debating whether to start using First Step Shelter in Daytona Beach or find a spot in New Smyrna Beach to create a small cluster of trailers homeless people can stay in temporarily.

Seattle is at disaster stage with about 12,000 homeless men and women at past count. New Smyrna Seashore is in a further, much lesser, homeless galaxy with all-around 50-75 homeless individuals.

Counts performed by perfectly-that means volunteers often pass up homeless men and women who are unable to be identified or purposely evade the once-a-year homeless census done nationwide. But irrespective of what New Smyrna Beach’s true tally is, the city’s homeless population has been expanding more than enough that longtime citizens are noticing and worrying about how significantly even worse it could get.