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How does making the box cheaper solve the fact that for the majority of homeless people, the land the box is on is the cost factor that prevents them from scrou
by mrguyorama 3y ago
How does making the box cheaper solve the fact that for the majority of homeless people, the land the box is on is the cost factor that prevents them from scrounging up legal residence? They already have tents, if they could put them somewhere legally they would! That's the entire problem for the ones that "don't want" the "help" of all these stupid "solutions".
My city conducted a "sweep" (read: stole all the stuff from our homeless people and threw it in a dumpster and just otherwise harassed them) of a homeless camp that was situated on a highway off-ramp. Now that area is empty, unused, and completely devoid of a point. What the heck was the concern? It wasn't a crime hotspot, it wasn't building up trash, it's completely distant from any business or facility that could be "annoyed" by a homeless camp, it was just a perfectly good use of public property.
Where the fuck should they go then? There aren't enough beds in the shelter, and the shelter isn't even close to the social services they need. I'm so tired of people doing everything they can to apologize for destroying human beings for being inconvenient. "Oh but they do drugs in public and make trash and they poop in the open"
Okay, I've just taken away your legal residence and your bank accounts. Where the fuck do YOU poop?