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Is this what meritocracy looks like?

But don't over look everyone... We all have a part to play.. In elections, our churches, schools, charities, cities, communities etc.. We can't always point to the government like it's not us the people!

I feel like a lot of people also forget that all these policies cost money, and usually a lot of it, to implement Instead of spending money to help people we’re spending money to criminalize them

Homeless people have so little to begin with, often only what they can carry. It's all they have to hold on to in a cruel world. To take it from them is not only cruel it could be a death sentence for those in cold climates.

Punitive policies against the unhoused are usually the first steps toward making them disappear and having them show up in mass graves.

That adage comes to mind of insanity is to keep doing the same things and expecting different outcomes. Good work by Nicole Santa Cruz on this story

Where do you go if you can't have a home and you can't sit on the ground?

"We are making many suffer for the whims of a deeply unwell few, and they are unwell indeed" - the sick of greed rich, that turned basic human neccesity into object of financial speculation and in result made it harder to obtain and keep by normal people? I agree, great observation mister Trump.

Giuliani started this shit in NYC as mayor. Don’t fix the problem just scare the crap out of them so they go hide. Making help nearly impossible!

The enormity of US's public-relations machine continuously feeds thoughts and feelings directly into the American bloodstream. There has never been a more infantile population created by

Exactly 💯

Same with old factories, old store fronts... They don't need to be palaces but practical safe places

They attack people like me who speak up. I am sick and tired of it

“Can’t you just pull yourself up by your bootstraps?” “Ummmmm, you took my bootstraps.”

Portland is building affordable housing for ppl making between 60k and 90k not the ppl who really need help www.opb.org/article/2024...

Like the immigrant issues, this is a difficult issue to solve..

I'm trying to figure out what you are referring to

Solution: #HomesForAll

Ah, I didn't notice that. My bad. I still think asylums are a very dubious thing because if they are corrupted by politicians, they could just be turned into just another type of prison where people are left to rot. The horrors of the asylums back in the 50s and 60s come to mind.

...and once asylums are opened, they can be abused by politicians & insurance corpos to throw even remotely mentally challenged people in them (like me!) to rot away out of sight! Who needs pesky reintegration? Out of sight, out of mind. OR, and hear me out here: thebetter.news/housing-firs...

Watch out for those bot accounts with annoying talking points. Convos don't go anywhere. They are just here to annoy us, get us upset, and waste time responding to us.

I think the election was the death knell of American Compassion

Elected representatives and homeless advocates need to work on solutions that don't include people living in parks designated for recreation or on public walkways. Private property has no duty to allow uninvited persons to live on their property. It shouldn't be an either/or.