One former homeless man, Andy, who was on the streets for a year, said he believed begging exacerbated the problem.<\/p>\n
“I hate to say it, but I think probably about 50% are fake homeless,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“They are technically still homeless, but they choose to be homeless [to beg]. They can go back home if they want to.”<\/p>\n
However, Katie, who PCSO Hart recently helped off the streets and into supported accommodation, said she disagreed with the officer’s stance on giving money to beggars.<\/p>\n
“People need to earn money when they’re homeless. They’ve got nothing,” she said.<\/p>\n
“What are they meant to do? I’ve done it myself.”<\/p>\n
But Katie said despite not agreeing with him on this issue, she still thought PCSO Hart was “brilliant”.<\/p>\n
She said he had visited her and her partner Paul every morning “to make sure we’re all right”.<\/p>\n
“I don’t like coppers, but Steve is different,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He actually listens to us. He’s just a nice person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One former homeless man, Andy, who was on the streets for a year, said he believed begging exacerbated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115186670249973225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}