What stuff man. There are social workers on site to make sure they take anything important like documents or prized possessions. What else is there? The social workers are there to help them get into transition housing or the hospital. Why do you think social workers are there to do harm???
Are there? I have yet to see an article that said that, so how am I to know? If there are, that's excellent; they should be. But every image you see is just stood getting shoveled into trash bags; a lot of people have reported having important papers, medications, or personal possessions trashed.
I'm not saying that emcampments are great, and that's a very weird assumption to take from what I am saying. Transition beds are a help, but there also needs to be affordable permanent housing; imo there needs to be less Air BnB; there needs to be rent control, there needs to be a lot of changes.
From last summer: "KTLA spoke with Jeff Levine, ... director of Long Beach Rescue Mission, a organization that provides services to unhoused individuals, and Dr. Margot Kushel, ... director at Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. (1/3)
“What we know from homelessness displacement or sweeps is that it does a fair amount of harm and disconnects the people from service providers. It removes people from their belongings, which includes sentimental things like people’s pictures of their families, medications and people’s documents, 2/3
some of which can prove their identity,” Kushel told KTLA. “A lot of harm can come from sweeps, and ultimately, if you don’t offer people a real outcome, they’re just going to have to move someplace else because they can’t dematerialize; they will show up someplace else.” (3/3)
There’s always going to be naysayers. A lot of this comes from the testimony of those who were asked to move—almost never trustworthy. The status quo is not acceptable. California is putting in the work to build out shelters and medical/social services. If addicts don’t want to make use of this…
So you shouldn't listen to the people it's actually happening to. Got it. Super useful.
Exactly. “Man, they took all my stuff man. I had some much stuff in there man. All kinds of great stuff I was going to sell man. Man they better give me some money for all my shit they took.”
that's just making fun of the hobos that earlier you were supposed to feel sorry for
That’s not making fun. That is what they are like.
What is with you? Have you never met any people who ran out of rent money? Did you read any of the quote up there? What part of "People need affordable housing and trashing their medicines and documents is a problem" is not getting through to you? I'm not pro-encampment, I'm anti-screwing people. 🙄
Beds are not the problem. Festering mental illness and addiction are the problems and you would tolerate the status quo indefinitely. All that’s being thrown away is piles and piles of contaminated trash. They can take their medicines and documents and anything valuable to them. Social workers help