The shelters can be dangerous. Women can be sexually assaulted, men can be robbed or assaulted.
There’s almost no recourse for when the shelter or one of its inhabitants fucks with you — or do you think an unsheltered person could sustain a legal battle to assert their rights?
Many of them are straight up concentration camps. 50 tents on an asphalt parking lot in Reseda, CA with no shade on a 105 degree day? Fuck you if you think that’s okay.
Those are the reasons I might say. But really? Having homeless people on the street might make a person uncomfortable, but that’s not enough of a reason to make them disappear. Then you have people who are traumatized by an encounter with a homeless person who use that as an excuse to go full albrecht macht frie. Those ones are dangerous fascists, despite how liberal they are on other social issues.
The shelters can be dangerous. Women can be sexually assaulted, men can be robbed or assaulted.
There’s almost no recourse for when the shelter or one of its inhabitants fucks with you — or do you think an unsheltered person could sustain a legal battle to assert their rights?
Many of them are straight up concentration camps. 50 tents on an asphalt parking lot in Reseda, CA with no shade on a 105 degree day? Fuck you if you think that’s okay.
Those are the reasons I might say. But really? Having homeless people on the street might make a person uncomfortable, but that’s not enough of a reason to make them disappear. Then you have people who are traumatized by an encounter with a homeless person who use that as an excuse to go full albrecht macht frie. Those ones are dangerous fascists, despite how liberal they are on other social issues.
Fucking gross