Mean Cities

The National Coalition for the Homeless has issued a report about American cities criminalizing homelessness. They rank cities around the country according to how harshly they treat the homeless.

Little Rock, Arkansas ranked as the meanest city in America toward the homeless. Atlanta, Georgia ranked second. The state of Texas had three cities on the list -- Austin ranked tenth, Dallas fifteenth, and San Antonio was seventeenth.

There are a lot of Baptists in all these cities. In fact, Baptists have a significant presence in all twenty of the meanest cities in America. We need to start taking an interest in the homeless people in the cities in which we live.

Click here for a link to the NCH's full report. Click here for narrative about the meanest cities. Click here for narrative about how the homeless are treated in cities in your area.