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The clean up area... Amazing.
Being dirty was one of my biggest fears when I was homeless. I felt like if I passed the point where I couldn't clean myself anymore, it would just get so much worse from there.
One of the complains she hears all the time is about the "smelly homeless people" in the library. Well now a solution has been provided.
Of course, that meant that conservatives flocked to community meetings about it and complained about how it would bring more of them into the neighborhood.
One guy said, "I have them setting up tents in my back yard!" Did you try just asking them to go somewhere else, dude?
I think the core of the problem is the complainers just don't want to see or be inconvenienced by "those people." Even though "those people" would almost certainly not choose to live that way if they didn't fall on hard times.
It's an uncomfortable reminder that many of us are closer to being in that situation than we think, and it is easier to fall into that with the more social programs we cut.
That's exactly what is. As long as they can't see the homeless, they don't exist.