Even as advocates for Madison’s homeless population are challenging the larger community to join their battle against the causes of homelessness, anger about the presence of homeless people is bubbling from several quarters.
Service providers, activists and the formerly homeless stood in solidarity in the food pantry of the Community Action Coalition Thursday and, through the local media, challenged Madison to meet the homeless with compassion and work for economic and social justice.
….The news conference was called in response to increasingly hostile public debate over how the city treats homeless people, a dispute magnified by the Madison Police Department’s implication that transients may have been involved in two homicides in recent weeks.