Down and out: Controversy erupts over panhandling downtown
Mark Brown doesn't like begging. The owner of what was long known as the Charlottesville Ice Park (now the Main Street Arena), Brown recently helped formulate an ad campaign to help the homeless and put the hurt on panhandling– and he ran straight into controversy.
Brown says the concept was designed to steer dollars toward agencies and curtail panhandling, a practice widely seen as funding drug and alcohol abuse. He says the campaign was based on research the head of the area's new homeless shelter conducted on how other communities have creatively handled the issue.
Some ideas have created panfuls of controversy.
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