There’s literally unhoused people about 5 blocks from me that just got their encampment raided. Police took their food and threw it away along with all of their belongings. The police didn’t offer any help or resources either so where did this 1.7 billion go?
Why is your town so bad at housing the homeless? NYC made it illegal to sleep on the street and puts everyone in shelters. It works really well and turns a human problem into a budgetary one. Money can be found.
Maybe you should vote for local politicians instead of blaming people who have nothing to do with fixing your town’s problems.
Have you ever been unhoused? They didn’t put everyone in shelters because there are still people on the streets. Making it illegal only harms the unhoused. Do you know what happens in shelters? Do you know what you have to submit to? So now if you don’t qualify to stay in the shelter, what then? Now you are a criminal. NYC isn’t helping with a law like that. They are criminalizing homelessness which is the fault of the city. There’s literally not even enough shelters to handle them. Partly because they closed a bunch of them during pandemic and never let them reopen.
Like how could anyone logically think that criminalizing homelessness would magically make them go away? Now they get to become fodder for the prison industrial complex and a body they can justify a higher police and corrections budget for.
You can be arrested for unpaid fines bud. And how are you supposed to pay it you are homeless? And i cant because my lease states that you cant have anyone not on the lease for more than two weeks stay and most people have leases that way. Before you say why don’t you buy a house. Sure, give me the down payment that I cant save up for because rent is too high and we can’t do anything about it. Also you would definitely get the attn of police if you were just randomly housing unhoused folks and be suspicious as all hell of it. Direct action is highly discouraged in this country and under capitalism as a whole tbh. Thats why there is literally a non profit industrial complex raking in tons of cash from people trying to help but being told that you need to go through xyz to help people.
Stop ranting about govt programs that don’t actually do anything. Also why stop calling out the prison industrial complex? Do you work for some company that is in it or serves it?
How does this money actually get dispersed? It is not given directly to people. It is filtered through bureaucratic channels to ensure paper pushers get a 9 to 5 and pension to say they manage shit. People that need assistance routinely have to jump through hoops to qualify and are constantly at an inconvenience to appease these agents for the money to ultimately get funneled to the police somehow.
There’s literally unhoused people about 5 blocks from me that just got their encampment raided. Police took their food and threw it away along with all of their belongings. The police didn’t offer any help or resources either so where did this 1.7 billion go?
Why is your town so bad at housing the homeless? NYC made it illegal to sleep on the street and puts everyone in shelters. It works really well and turns a human problem into a budgetary one. Money can be found.
Maybe you should vote for local politicians instead of blaming people who have nothing to do with fixing your town’s problems.
Have you ever been unhoused? They didn’t put everyone in shelters because there are still people on the streets. Making it illegal only harms the unhoused. Do you know what happens in shelters? Do you know what you have to submit to? So now if you don’t qualify to stay in the shelter, what then? Now you are a criminal. NYC isn’t helping with a law like that. They are criminalizing homelessness which is the fault of the city. There’s literally not even enough shelters to handle them. Partly because they closed a bunch of them during pandemic and never let them reopen.
Like how could anyone logically think that criminalizing homelessness would magically make them go away? Now they get to become fodder for the prison industrial complex and a body they can justify a higher police and corrections budget for.
Uh, it’s not a crime they lock you up for. They just don’t allow big ass encampments like other places.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/nyregion/nyc-homeless-camp-bill-of-rights.html
Stop ranting about the “prison industrial complex” and provide housing for these people in your town.
You can be arrested for unpaid fines bud. And how are you supposed to pay it you are homeless? And i cant because my lease states that you cant have anyone not on the lease for more than two weeks stay and most people have leases that way. Before you say why don’t you buy a house. Sure, give me the down payment that I cant save up for because rent is too high and we can’t do anything about it. Also you would definitely get the attn of police if you were just randomly housing unhoused folks and be suspicious as all hell of it. Direct action is highly discouraged in this country and under capitalism as a whole tbh. Thats why there is literally a non profit industrial complex raking in tons of cash from people trying to help but being told that you need to go through xyz to help people.
Stop ranting about govt programs that don’t actually do anything. Also why stop calling out the prison industrial complex? Do you work for some company that is in it or serves it?
What the fuck does your local bullshit cops being local bullshit cops have to do with a federal aid pledge?
How does this money actually get dispersed? It is not given directly to people. It is filtered through bureaucratic channels to ensure paper pushers get a 9 to 5 and pension to say they manage shit. People that need assistance routinely have to jump through hoops to qualify and are constantly at an inconvenience to appease these agents for the money to ultimately get funneled to the police somehow.
Sounds like a great argument for oversight. I don’t know what level of oversight these funds have.
also police brutality is a systemic issue, not a local one. you think the cops in nyc are much better?