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I kinda made this post out of spite for the fact the most previous post in this community, whose title I quoted/copied, was getting so many downvotes… At the time I posted this, the previous post had about a 30% downvote rate, and it really, really made me mad.
I am relieved tho to see people in the comments here who have real, actual empathy for their fellow humans. Thank you for contributing here.
It blows my mind how normalized it is to hate on those who are struggling. Especially in 20fucking23 when so many of us now are on the verge of it ourselves. Let’s be better, everyone - to everyone. I beg you.
"We make the community by defending it: Calling police on people that don’t have a house is a violent act to those seeking shelter in the community they belong to."
Everyone is ok with homeless in tents till they set up shop in your street
See, this is part of the issue. Too many people recognize the problems, but as soon as any solutions to those problems inconvenience them, any empathy for those problems then goes right out the window…
I remember this guy in my city set up fake signs for the opening of a new homeless shelter in one of the wealthier and more liberal neighbourhoods in the city, where the “provide for the homeless!” Crowd tend to live.
The neighborhood was up in arms at the idea of the shelter getting set up in THEIR neighborhood. There’s a video about it around somewhere.
If someone sets up a spot to sleep and keep their stuff close to your house, try talking to them like a person. I live in the City, so there are plenty of people I see all the time. Sometimes they ask for help, sometimes we just talk. I help when I can, but I also say no when I can’t. I stand outside and talk to some of the struggling people close to me for a while sometimes. They’re just people
We need more of this right here in the world. Thank you for being an empathetic and decent human.
The healthy homeless people struggling in my city get plenty of aid. The ones you find camping out are the ones who choose to be homeless, and the ones too mentally ill to seek help. But since we’ve become so sensitive, we just let them sleep outside instead of forcing them into programs. Until we accept that the mentally ill homeless who refuse aid need to be picked up and forced into it, things will never change.
I disagree… public space is our space. No one’s need is greater than anyone else’s. The homeless need help, the pubic space that we use to get to the store, play with our children, buff highway noise is not the place to get that. Now, I’m not saying financially penalizing or jailing them are the only alternatives but safe camping/RV spots with access to access social services, Wi-Fi, gather for ac/heater, etc seems like a better approach.
I’d rather we just give them housing and a support network to prevent homelessness in the first place. Until then, homeless people have a right to access third spaces for as long as they don’t have a living space.
I’m fine with this in theory, but in practice the homeless/unhoused don’t care whether the property is private or not. I have witnessed them trying to set up tents in people’s yards multiple times. Not even big yards, we are talking condo yards.
For a “Solar punk” instance, this community seems to have very little of the “punk” aspect, and in these comments it sounds more like a “Solar rich liberal” place.
The amount of slander towards homeless people, the propagating of stereotypes, and the removal of personhood in these comments really blows my mind. There are even people defending that homeless people should be sent to prison and have their life managed for them; others claim how it’s their own fault they are homeless; some cry about “private property”.
And of course a bunch of people claiming this isn’t a final/permanent solution, and so it shouldn’t be done… as if to say, until we come up with better solutions, these people should just go without shelter. What is really a priority to them, is not having to look at homeless people.
In a nutshell: “It’s their own fault! They’re probably all heroin addicts anyway. Someone else should come up with and implement better solutions, but in the meantime I don’t want to have to see and walk by people who don’t have a home!”. A Solar
PunkNeolib community.When a post gets enough points, it does the Lemmy equivalent of “hitting the front page” and comment character becomes indistinguishable from a brigade. Most of the people commenting on this post aren’t from the Slrpnk.net instance. Check out the locals who are though – excellent people every one – @stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net, @poVoq@slrpnk.net, @punkisundead@slrpnk.net, @j_roby@slrpnk.net. These people are making this instance great.
Also, a shout out to the the nice people from other instances - I see you, and you are awesome: @Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works, @ondoyant@beehaw.org, @257m@lemmy.ml, @TheFriar@lemm.ee, @Maeve@kbin.social, @rockSlayer@lemmy.world, @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone - thanks for contributing.
Thank you for taking the time to make some personal acknowledgements, especially for those who are visiting from other instances.
You deserve one yourself too. Your contributions here help make this place great as well.
Public spaces typically have intended uses. When those spaces aren’t used for what they are intended, something needs to change. When the homeless set up 1000 survival spaces in a public park… the rest of us should suffer because of their bad decisions/luck? Use your energy to make a difference instead of an ineffectual post. Vote in better policy makers.
I would be cool with chill people setting up tents for a day or two or at night or whatever. But who’s going to be picking the used heroin needles up out of the grass and wrangling the drug dealers and gang members when they start showing up? The reason peole don’t want tent villages is this, not because they simply hate the “unhoused”.
Making some pretty out there assumptions about the kind of people who are homeless, my dude…
I agree, but is it a meme?
Yes, memes are viral thoughts, often utilizing fun to spread, but not necessarily so.
If you agree with this, you’ve never seen public spaces taken over by homeless.
Perhaps it would make us want to… help them better.
It does, but helping is not giving them free reign over public spaces.
Yeah! Let’s kick them out of public spaces… wait a minute.
I agree. But by allowing them to be in public spaces we’re giving some squeak to an otherwise unnoticed wheel. Maybe then it actually gets the grease it needs.
Also… would you want to live in a tent in the park? Do you think they want that? Nobody wants to live their life that way. These are people without anywhere to go. Should they sleep in dumpsters just so we don’t have to look at them?
