Homelessness
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Mind you, I am speaking from a degree of personal experience here. My family was forced into homeless for a great deal of my youth. We lived out of our minivan, which we parked o...
After completing a map of The Mission Neighborhood I found: - 232 Drug Addicts - 213 Closed Businesses. - 81 Empty/Abandoned Homes - 50 Tents - 37 Rvs - 23 Prostitues - 1 Raccoon...
Thereโs been some discourse lately on homelessness, or the lack thereof, in Beijing. Since thereโs very little data on it, I attempted to find some evidence myself, in the most sy...
Homeless couple just put up a tent on our block, 40 feet away from apartments that rent for $20,000/mo. Cops refuse to do anything, so I waited until they left to panhandle and thr...
"Virtue signaling" is an abused expression, but it's the perfect description for "I would simply have offered assistance to the mentally ill person shouting that he was going to hu...
Since the US banned our Hawaiian language, it nearly went extinct. Less than 100 kids spoke it in the 80's. Kids are STILL punished for speaking Hawaiian today. The fact we've 30,0...
โItโs a piece of cakeโฆyou get three meals a day and donโt have to do shitโฆwake up, eat get high, wake up eat get highโ repeat. A homeless woman shared with me why itโs so easy to b...
Small ๐งต every single serious commentator on the homelessness knows quantity of housing isn't the issue (for homelessness it is for people trying to rent) Of those 500k 80-90% are...
I saw some talk about homelessness and freedom and thought I'd chip in with some longer thoughts. I spent a week voluntarily homeless in an abandoned military base in Maine, in mid...
When I was a teenager I was on a waitlist for a homeless shelter because they thought I was a lost cause after spending 4+yrs on the streets or in the woods. Wealthy kids whose par...
Throughout history men built civilization, men shed blood and sweat to build houses/infrastructure, to provide for their kids & wife. Most labor workers are men, I go outside and...
The more I read these panicked articles about places like NYC and San Francisco being 'unsafe', the more I realize it's not about crime at all - just discomfort with poverty being...
The secret is that it's private/gated/has no homeless people/doesn't have to tolerate criminals. Almost all failures of urbanism could be solved by rounding up habitual troublemak...
@tkinias @jdjmke Reasons can vary, but yeah. E.g. here's central park and the upper west side. There a couple tracts in CP, which are real (homeless) people; the empty area in the...
"Anti-homeless" hostile architecture, a thread. Toronto. These devices (left) keep homeless people from sleeping on the grates to avoid freezing to death (right). https://t.co/3ox...
This is the City literally putting up 25+ boulders to keep homeless people out of public space. This is Clinton Park in the Mission. Thousands of dollars spent on #HostileArch...
