‘It would be horrible’: Advocates worry camping ban would hurt Indy’s housing program

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With his sweatshirt hood up and hand warmers tucked in his gloves, Jason Sargent tried to fight off the cold. Sargent, 42, sat alone outside of a coffee shop on a cold Monday morning. He’s been homeless for a year. Sargent didn’t know that two blocks away, at the Indiana Statehouse, politicians have been debating how long he could stay on that downtown sidewalk. Republican lawmakers are thinking about making it illegal to use public land for sleeping and camping. “It would be horrible,” Sargent

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