LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The non-profit group Vegas Stronger launched a manner to assist tackle the homelessness disaster within the Las Vegas valley.
It is known as the Golden Ticket Marketing campaign, and it’s designed to assist those that want it and join anybody going through homelessness to sources and providers.
“The golden ticket is a tool to try and train our community to turn that well-meaning desire to help into something that isn’t enabling but something that is helpful,” Dan Marlon CEO Vegas Stronger
Vegas Stronger asks that individuals give a golden ticket to panhandlers as a substitute of cash or meals.
The marketing campaign additionally hopes to deal with the foundation causes of substance abuse and psychological sickness.
“Human beings don’t belong on the streets, it’s dangerous, it’s unhealthy, and is just no place for human beings to be,” Metropolis of Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkely stated.
The golden ticket additionally supplies them with entry to free meals, shelter, and psychological well being sources.
Since January of 2024, nearly 8,000 individuals have been experiencing homelessness in Nevada, a 20% improve in that neighborhood.
