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“We need to focus on the real cause of homelessness, which is the fact that rent in this country is just too damn high for more and more people to afford.”
How hard is it to understand the difference between charging poor people monetary fines they obviously can’t pay, and addressing homelessness with housing?
These are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.
Something so vaguely named as a “data center” is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people.
“The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive.”
“We have to look at this as a government failure, instead of constantly pointing back at people living unhoused, and blaming them for their plight.”
There’s an important legal development in the case of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, held without warrant since March for voicing support for Palestinian lives.
“Millions of dollars have been spent just driving people from corner to corner, with no even slight effort, really, to house people.”
The media narrative holds that permissive policies protecting the homeless have allowed a zombie army of criminals to control San Francisco.
Much of the corporate press refrained from framing Neely as a victim, and far-right media outlets went even further to excuse the killing.
The New York Times parrots the implausible suggestion that cities cracking down on unsheltered people constitutes efforts to help them.
Coverage that conflates crime with homelessness scapegoats a marginalized population–and leaves out rising crimes against homeless people.
Any of these stories could have been used as a gateway to discuss many of the crippling economic and social problems the US is facing. But under neoliberalism, every problem is understood through an individualist lens.
For such a powerful figure, Schumer gets relatively scant scrutiny from New York City’s press corps, long considered the toughest in the United States.
