ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
This is what they wrote.
This is what they wrote.
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Portland, OR
Riverside, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Albuquerque, NM
Phoenix, AZ
New York, NY
Knoxville, TN
Sacramento, CA
Burien, WA
Minneapolis, MN
San Francisco, CA
Fresno, CA
Seattle, WA
I live in Florida. It's a hundred times worse here for anyone homeless.💔
They hoped for deaths to occur. You can't tell me they didn't.
Hoping for Denmark to buy us.
Same as when the orange felon was ripping toddlers away from their mothers
No one should expect any less from these incoming sadistic bastards
@nicolesantacruz.bsky.social: can you share whether you changed the Q on the notecards, at some point, from coping to impact? Vs. Giving out both types of Qs, concurrently
(Nerdy past-life-qualitative-interviewer inquiry)
THANK YOU for this heartbreakingly urgent work.
I’m certain she’s not down with this sort of thing.
https://youtu.be/vWTfG7w_pfc?si=yZHP74BptLGS5LBy
ICYMI: Knowing that families are not able to force the point, therapeutic courts, when funded and supported by well-funded social service agencies and .org groups can be effective for those who need that extra push to find their own self-care:
https://tvw.org/coming-together-again-therapeutic-courts-in-wa/
Could become small towns for God’s sake
so you could live there, but only if you also have a car. get groceries, kids to school, car car car.
I like the idea. I'm aware of why Main Streets only vanish (a few tiny gentrified exceptions existing here and there).
For the US, stuff like this would need to change (just 1 issue)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=QFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dE6iUvq0qv3pUv2sTwMbqdQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
It costs money to do something. That money comes out of your local city/town budget. Progressive towns have had success with SafeStay setups, these cost ~4.2 mil & have rules not all want to follow.
Problem is, the wrong people are getting arrested for it.
🟨 CONGRESS.
🟩 PLEASE REPOST.
☮️ THANKS.
REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY -- claiming to be PRO-LIFE
but yet eager to cut
Social Security,
SNAP,
Medicare,
Medicaid,
on which OUR LIVES
depend.
DEFEND YOUR LIVES
by
DEMANDING HUMANITY
FROM CONGRESS...
..KEEP FLOODING Congress' phone lines⬇️
Anyone and everyone is welcomed to help us defy oligarchy. We need to end this cruelty. See how:
https://tinyurl.com/FairNewDeal
#USToo #FairNewDeal
Now I have an apartment and live on pennies because I got put on SSI & not allowed to earn. I wanna work
She wrote: "Can't go get a job with no teeth so how can [I] get off the streets until another pair can be made?"
Throwing away people’s belongings is so unthinkably cruel.
How about we take some of that money, let's say 20% of the top earners and give it to those most in need?
We can call it a tax.
Aggressively, violently and proudly taken from them.
They're not failing at doing good. They're succeeding at doing evil.
The next day, a helicopter was flying around the same core area including directly overhead, advertising a Rilling Stones exhibit for local museum.
Completely out of touch and lacking empathy.
May God convict our hearts in a way that makes us never forget.
Quite brave of you to preemptively go to bat on the side of the privileged like that.
No one deserves this.
😪😪😪😪😪😪😪
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/21/florida-camping-ban-homeless-public-spaces/73048034007/
Boston is disappointing though, as they have quite a bit of progressive leadership.
We need crowd sourcing of land, dormitories and or container homes. And here's the most important part- social workers and mental health.