It's so frustrating that they talk about how the problems are things like needles and human feces. Like, how much does it cost to put a sharps container at an encampment? How about giving people TOILETS? Porta potties? What about REMOVING RUBBISH like the city does for literally every household in it? There are so many practical answers to the problems, but all they want is for people to go away.
Exactly. To watch public officials ask, "What can we do about human waste, needles and trash?" when there are easy, already established answers to all these problems is so frustrating and disingenuous.
Thank you for your continuing coverage of this bellwether issue--I call it that because, as you and so many of the speakers at the recent meeting in Cranston pointed out, this policy proposed by the Mayor, and the situation it supposedly (yet disingenuously) attempts to address, is an indicator of a political and societal mindset ("othering," dehumanization, attempting to "disappear" problems in which the society is complicit) that, in turn, has a myriad of wider repercussions in many areas, not just the concrete issue of how to ensure that all of our neighbors have places to live safely and thrive physically and emotionally. The beautiful power of the voices of those who offered comment at the meeting is amplified by this reporting.
It's so frustrating that they talk about how the problems are things like needles and human feces. Like, how much does it cost to put a sharps container at an encampment? How about giving people TOILETS? Porta potties? What about REMOVING RUBBISH like the city does for literally every household in it? There are so many practical answers to the problems, but all they want is for people to go away.
Exactly. To watch public officials ask, "What can we do about human waste, needles and trash?" when there are easy, already established answers to all these problems is so frustrating and disingenuous.
Thank you for your continuing coverage of this bellwether issue--I call it that because, as you and so many of the speakers at the recent meeting in Cranston pointed out, this policy proposed by the Mayor, and the situation it supposedly (yet disingenuously) attempts to address, is an indicator of a political and societal mindset ("othering," dehumanization, attempting to "disappear" problems in which the society is complicit) that, in turn, has a myriad of wider repercussions in many areas, not just the concrete issue of how to ensure that all of our neighbors have places to live safely and thrive physically and emotionally. The beautiful power of the voices of those who offered comment at the meeting is amplified by this reporting.
This comment reallymade my day. Thank you.