My wife is a library administrator and they are working on putting up a library branch in a poorer part of town, and people came to the board meeting to object, because it would attract more of “them” to the area. As if there weren’t plenty of homeless people there already.
It is the answer to the “problem” most people care about: unhoused people being visible.
Reminds me of an announcement the dean made on Community: “In order to increase awareness of homelessness, security has been given binoculars”
My wife is a library administrator and they are working on putting up a library branch in a poorer part of town, and people came to the board meeting to object, because it would attract more of “them” to the area. As if there weren’t plenty of homeless people there already.
What’s so fucked to me is that giving them housing would do the same thing, it would make them less visible.
If that’s what they really wanted, they could be convinced to fund housing for the homeless.
They can’t be convinced, ergo the cruelty is the point.