News Aug 26, 2015 at 4:20 pm

The City's Finally Giving Homeless People a Place to Put Their Things

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There has never been any "War on Homelessness." What there's been is war against the homeless, and all this is, is a means of identifying just exactly who the homeless are, and holding their property ransom for them to behave according to the dictates of the City. Participants will 'voluntarily' waive rights for privileges and be led down the slippery slope to captivity.
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You know how to help the homeless? Give them homes! Look at Utah, what they have done is amazing. http://mic.com/articles/108720/utah-s-radical-solution-to-fighting-homelessness-has-been-a-remarkable-success
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This is great! I was homeless for 6 months in 2002 carrying around a huge backpack. My whole life was in there. I couldnt keep it at a shelter, tried to sneak it into lockers at the library, and trying to find safe hiding spots in the city was a struggle. I was working, but trying to hide my situation the best I could. I wish this would have been in place at the time. Wake-up, get ready for work, get down to the lockers, get on the train, work a 10-12 hour day, train home, get pack and go to sleep. Would have made my life easier.
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Bushes work too.

The real problem is the inability or right to congregate as it gives safety in numbers and a sense of community as well as the ability to disburse in a way that does not create pressure on one another. Simply put street people need autonomy rather than a politician who has nothing to do with them telling them how to live and where to go. Hales does this locker thing with one hand yet with the other he continuously breaks peoples connections and herds them around thereby causing problems, destroying peoples connections and safety, and instigating conflicts. He should go to jail. In an honest world I'd bury him.

Pack a warehouse full of bunk beds and rent them = government MAKES money instead of wasting it, people have a storage, a place to be during the day and night, and besides a modest monthly rental fee they'd have ability to connect with each other free of social and economic expectations that when they fail to meet we use as excuses to herd them around.

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