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There is a vein of hatred for homeless people running throughout our country. Worse, they are not allowed to vote or recieve a lot of state support because they
by foxyv 6y ago
There is a vein of hatred for homeless people running throughout our country. Worse, they are not allowed to vote or recieve a lot of state support because they lack domiciliary. Politicians have no reason to view them as anything but a problem. Supporting homeless people in anything than a "Get rid of the problem" way is often political suicide.
(1) https://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/fortitude-shelter-rejected-by-council/article_29147ba2-fc20-11ea-9e6f-bb4b26510ddc.html https://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/fortitude-shelter-r...
(2) https://gothamist.com/news/angry-upper-west-siders-wanted-homeless-scum-out-their-neighborhood-de-blasio-took-their-side https://gothamist.com/news/angry-upper-west-siders-wanted-ho...
(3) https://jerseydigs.com/homeless-shelter-denied-apartments-could-come-to-179-van-buren-street-newark/ https://jerseydigs.com/homeless-shelter-denied-apartments-co...
(4) https://www.kcur.org/community/2019-11-25/church-sues-lenexa-for-denying-its-request-to-operate-a-homeless-shelter https://www.kcur.org/community/2019-11-25/church-sues-lenexa...
(5) https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/voting-can-be-hard-if-youre-homeless-its-nearly-impossible/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/voting-can-be-h...