With the deadline for public comment on 8 May, Knight said they were in the process of making recommendations to the City.
GPRRA chair of the human environment committee, Elizabeth Knight, said the area depended on overnight shelters to help people off the street.
‘The ratepayers are behind it but we will make our recommendations. We are dependent on the psychosocial services and job creation . She admitted shelters were short term solutions but the GPRRA had witnessed the personal development of those who had been helped off the streets. Homeless Action Coalition chairperson Ndodana Hadebe said they support the idea of Safe Spaces but they needed to be better managed.
Makhaya Mkheto, who lives in a makeshift shelter with his partner under the Ebenezer Road bridge where the Green Point Safe Space is to be built, said it was a good idea to develop a new shelter there.‘We stay on the street and we are parking cars to get money for something to eat. I would like to get money to go back home to my family.’
Hirner said people needed to feel safe and walk freely in the city, but the homeless were ‘victims of what’s happening on a bigger scale in society’.
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