Homelessness increases by 7% in Marion County
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pat Sullivan here to remind you to stop putting screens on your gutters. |
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| 0:13.5 | gutter helmetindy.com. |
| 0:15.0 | Data shows that homelessness has increased 7% in Indy this past year. |
| 0:20.5 | Wait, what? Yeah, I know. I know you're shocked by that. It's time we say. So it was interesting, and I know this will dovetail into this next story about how, and I think there's in large part to the work that the indie reporter account did with those dash cam videos that he was doing, that homeless camp in near Fountain Square is shutting down. |
| 0:39.0 | And this is when we talk about, you know, the idea of citizen activism, citizen journalism, |
| 0:43.1 | taking it. |
| 0:43.6 | There's a variety of things. |
| 0:44.9 | I know the people in that area had complained and there were articles written about it. |
| 0:48.0 | But that light that had been shining on and the other people, our own Ethan Hatcher, |
| 0:51.5 | was very involved in shining a light on that. |
| 0:54.7 | But it's time for us to say the quiet part out loud, which we always paint homeless people |
| 1:01.4 | as that poor person, right? Oh, that guy just down on his luck of somebody would just help him or help her. |
| 1:08.1 | There are people that are that way. And every year, you and I and the WIBC Air Staff raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to |
| 1:14.8 | help those people through the Salvation Army. |
| 1:17.2 | But in the case of something like Lugar Plaza, which by the way, now that the All-Star |
| 1:22.5 | game is over, homeless camp back in full effect out there in Lugar Plaza. |
| 1:27.1 | Did we call that? |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, we did. |
| 1:29.4 | We said one week, it'll all be back. |
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