Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is alarmed by the number of homeless people sleeping rough on the streets of the city. | MarvinCharles_
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is alarmed by the number of homeless people in the city.This comes a day after City law enforcement officials carried out operations in areas in the city bowl. Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is alarmed by the number of homeless people sleeping rough on the streets of the city.
"I would like to make it clear that if they do not have a choice, it is not an offence for a person to sleep on the streets. And – as I have outlined – we will do everything in our power to ensure that people do have a choice," he said. Hill-Lewis maintained that the City would do everything in its power to roll out its care intervention programme to provide alternative accommodation to the homeless.
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