For the past year, @propublica.org has been reporting on the toll when a city "sweeps" an encampment. We handed out cards so folks could write in their own words what it meant to have their belongings trashed.
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
https://projects.propublica.org/impact-of-homeless-sweeps-lost-belongings/
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
https://projects.propublica.org/impact-of-homeless-sweeps-lost-belongings/
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And we are doing nothing to address this, nothing to stop this from happening again -- and it will.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-covid-homeless-chronic-illness-gig-economy-1312460/
The results are terrifying. We need sanctioned camping areas (with rules) until there are enough shelter beds and funnels off the streets but simply allowing campsites to become entrenched is dangerous.
Convert abandoned malls into single sized rooms, a little larger for families, get social services in the mall spaces and give them a PO Box, integrated medical treatment, on the job training and a food court.
They put up signs in Seattle too. https://publicola.com/tag/sweeps/
The cruelty is definitely the point.
Do unto others…