Homeless people “are our brothers, our sisters. They are members of our community,” says Linda Ketcham, executive director of Madison-area Urban Ministry.
She was preparing for a noontime press conference at Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin called in response to what advocates perceive as a growing tendency to demonize the homeless in the wake of two recent deaths. “We’re concerned about the stereotyping, the profiling, the scapegoating that’s going on now,” Ketcham said.
“We have a shared responsibility as a community,” she said, “I think that’s what’s been forgotten here.”