Post B1hwfLUvdSDVRcWJMW by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #B1hwQsN781z53cxu9A by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T12:52:25Z
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Love this model. This is just down the street from us and I often walk by. Over the past decade the South Bronx has been built up in many ways. There aren't many empty lots or abandoned building anymore. Everywhere there's housing and I see no reason why addressing homelessness can't be a big part of that too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35uH0HUMhI
(DIR) Post #B1hwfLUvdSDVRcWJMW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T12:55:01Z
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The things that make homelessness an annoyance or "inconvenience" for people who aren't homeless are mostly down to people not having a place to live. When you address that those issues* go away, and they just become your neighbors. *It' s really absurd that when one person in suffering, sick on the train because there is no where else to go everyone is concerned about the people on the train who have a place to live but that is where the politics is.
(DIR) Post #B1hwuLuyM7dh5hrF4a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T12:57:44Z
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More to the point the shelters in NYC are not a place anyone wants to be and with very good reason. There is a lot of low hanging fruit. Anyone who is homeless with a job and kids should just be admitted to this kind of program with few questions. These are people who will get on their feet again if we'd just stop making it so hard. There are more complex and difficult cases and maybe the shelters could do a better job if some of the pressure was taken off.
(DIR) Post #B1hxp874M2q0mYabcu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T13:07:58Z
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I tend to come into school early. When I was at a different school from the one I work at now I came in at 6:30 one day and found one of my students in the back of the room. He'd discovered that the big cabinets at the back of the room weren't really being used for anything and taken one over to store his stuff. He'd hung up posters inside and neatly stacked his clothes and sneakers. He was listening to music and didn't notice me walking in. "David* when did you get here?"*not his name
(DIR) Post #B1hy2qaYJ5TcU8v9ai by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T13:10:28Z
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"The school opens at 5, miss." He said. Basically, he'd made himself a little corner of a typical teenager's bedroom in the storage cabinet. Because at the shelter your stuff might go missing. Not because people steal either, no the people who run the shelters just throw things away without warning. Think about what that does to you mentally, to never feel like you can even put an item down and ever find it again. In the next year he and his dad were doing much better.
(DIR) Post #B1hy8KEJWpi5rd8C8G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T13:11:25Z
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But for most of that year he'd stay at the building from 5am to 7pm every day.
(DIR) Post #B1hyHfaJV8L6hWsRJA by cobalt123@beige.party
2025-12-28T13:13:07Z
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@futurebird Arizona is well known for criminalizing unhoused people. There seem more and more very visibly week by week. Our area had very few 3 1/2 years ago when we moved to West Phoenix. Now I’d guess there are 20-50 per square mile out here where it’s a long walk to grocery or convenience stores. I was a crew chief for the census in South Bend Indiana years ago. In January is/was the annual count of “unhoused” and “unhoused transient”people. It was always afternoons to catch people in shelters and middle of night to catch those not in shelters. BUT you were only allowed to count people in “gathering spots” or encampments identified the previous July. Thus you had to blindly pass people here and there and only proceed to a certain empty lot or park that was no longer a gathering place. The whole process was set up in the oddest ways to make sure the count “was not TOO HIGH” so as to embarrass the town. I’m sure these patterns are persisting in any census count. I’d hope somehow NYC is able to include more people than just a few.
(DIR) Post #B1hyJO5VWcH70yHqe8 by MisuseCase@twit.social
2025-12-28T13:13:25Z
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@futurebird There are a lot of lies about homeless people like that most of them “don’t want housing and refuse it,” which is actually them not wanting to stay in temporary shelters that are unsafe and/or will require them to give up their stuff, separate from loved ones, etc.Almost all homeless people are homeless because they don’t have money and the rent is too damn high, not because they are contrarians or something.
(DIR) Post #B1hyTk4edT3e6EpERs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T13:15:20Z
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I had a chance later to talk to someone who works at a big city shelter and I told them about my student and how traumatized he was by having his stuff just vanish without warning. She swore up and down it didn't work like that, but reading between what she said I detected that there are just too many people, not enough staff and not enough space. So, the people running the shelters have "trash out days" where they just throw things out. Otherwise the place would fill up with garbage.
(DIR) Post #B1hye8tdCaUJypd2Jc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T13:17:13Z
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You have people who really need mental health services, former hoarders mixed in with teens like my student, and so there is a "no stuff" policy. But, everyone needs some space that they can *control* not having any place to put anything will make your lose your mind.
(DIR) Post #B1hyw5b0DBuaxMTNIm by MisuseCase@twit.social
2025-12-28T13:20:25Z
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@futurebird A great service for homeless people would be lockers where they could keep their really important small items but God forbid we treat homeless people like actual people, right?
(DIR) Post #B1hz69gDsirEWFiM4W by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T13:22:17Z
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@MisuseCase They do have lockers, which are searched all the time, but still. Thing is his locker was full of food, medicine, essentials. The school cabinet was his "teen junk" basically we don't do enough or think about "what would I feel like if I had to put up with this" enough.
(DIR) Post #B1i0szNj3jHeitucJU by quinn@social.circl.lu
2025-12-28T13:42:15Z
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@futurebird brought a tear to my eye. (Am formerly homeless myself)
(DIR) Post #B1j2I1eQ3NAm74BNho by quinn@social.circl.lu
2025-12-28T13:45:39Z
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@MisuseCase @futurebird there's also a lot of addiction in homelessness, and a lot of stigma about getting help for that. I mean, it makes sense to get the easier cases done and dusted, but addiction treatment is really key as well. And yeah some of those people have jobs too! But some of them are far from being able to work.
(DIR) Post #B1j2I30R10NSJdUTey by Oma_Trisha_F@mastodon.social
2025-12-28T23:04:49Z
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@quinn @MisuseCase @futurebird Stop it. More addiction issues result from homelessness than the other way around. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how much stress is caused by not having a safe, private place to sleep; from being treated like nothing; demeaned, degraded, insulted, or forced to leave a place you feel safe and comfortable; by not having anywhere to shower and brush your teeth, and so much more.....HOUSING FIRST resolves most of the problems related to homelessness.
(DIR) Post #B1j2I4Pdmm8Mg6I7aS by quinn@social.circl.lu
2025-12-28T23:29:49Z
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@Oma_Trisha_F @MisuseCase @futurebird I have absolutely been there. More than once. At one point with a young child.
(DIR) Post #B1j2I5eZAlfQWgHYUS by Oma_Trisha_F@mastodon.social
2025-12-29T01:30:23Z
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@quinn @MisuseCase @futurebird Then there is NO EXCUSE for your comment. Not one. It's nothing but judgmentalism and cruelty.
(DIR) Post #B1j2I6uuTUKoRew7bU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-29T01:32:40Z
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@Oma_Trisha_F @quinn @MisuseCase I think you are badly misreading Quinn's tone, meaning and responses. I'm a little confused.