The zoning commission believes it is unnecessary and redundant to build another facility in an urban area where enough support exists already. In Covington there isn't even a public toilet to use. The proposed center would have satisfied many of these issues for the large segment of the homeless population that lives on the riverbank. There's also no place to take a shower. Winters says an initiative by the Northern Kentucky Coalition for the Homeless was responsible for educating many police officers on how to deal with the homeless.
Winters says the community as a whole has only been successful in ignoring the homeless.
But they require you to live by their rules. If you can't make the evening curfew, then you have to leave. And if you don't go to the Sunday services, then you also can't stay. This restrictive approach to social service dramatically limits participation, Winters says. Most homeless, Winter says, would rather take the job and remain on the street.