If you call out the cops to do a "welfare check" on that guy with a bad back and scruffy hair living in a van in the gym parking lot,
You are the problem.
Stop.
Anything he is facing only gets worse when he can't have a few weeks to get his shit together without being forced to move or worse, interact with the apparatus of oppression.
If someone is living in a van, they know that parking lot is not legally safe to park on for more than a day.
They know you neighbours in your fancy SUVs and gated community houses don't feel comfortable with the evidence of poverty so close by.
If they had a better option, they'd already be there.
The cops are never a better option.

#homeless
#vanlife
#nimbyism

If you call out the cops to do a "welfare check" on that guy with a bad back and scruffy hair living in a van in the gym parking lot,
You are the problem.
Stop.
Anything he is facing only gets worse when he can't have a few weeks to get his shit together without being forced to move or worse, interact with the apparatus of oppression.
If someone is living in a van, they know that parking lot is not legally safe to park on for more than a day.
They know you neighbours in your fancy SUVs and gated community houses don't feel comfortable with the evidence of poverty so close by.
If they had a better option, they'd already be there.
The cops are never a better option.

#homeless
#vanlife
#nimbyism

The Shrinking Middle Class: How Rising Costs Are Pushing Americans to the Brink

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ziq-jOZS-Ss

Nearly 1 out of 2 Americans now fall below the middle-class threshold, pushed there by rising costs and shrinking wages...

#Normalized #Collapse #USA #Homeless #Impoverishment #MiddleClass #OpulentClass #Risk #Profit #Humanism

The Shrinking Middle Class: How Rising Costs Are Pushing Americans to the Brink

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ziq-jOZS-Ss

Nearly 1 out of 2 Americans now fall below the middle-class threshold, pushed there by rising costs and shrinking wages...

#Normalized #Collapse #USA #Homeless #Impoverishment #MiddleClass #OpulentClass #Risk #Profit #Humanism

#Mamdani will bring back #homeless encampment #sweeps after vowing to end practice

https://gothamist.com/news/mamdani-will-bring-back-homeless-encampment-sweeps-after-vowing-to-end-practice

> Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism and questions from advocates for homeless New Yorkers after abruptly reversing his policy pledge to end homeless encampment sweeps. The administration said the city’s homeless services agency would now take charge of sweeps.

#Mamdani will bring back #homeless encampment #sweeps after vowing to end practice

https://gothamist.com/news/mamdani-will-bring-back-homeless-encampment-sweeps-after-vowing-to-end-practice

> Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism and questions from advocates for homeless New Yorkers after abruptly reversing his policy pledge to end homeless encampment sweeps. The administration said the city’s homeless services agency would now take charge of sweeps.