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#anti-homelessness is anti-human
genderqueerdykes · 8 days
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as someone who has been chronically homeless for 9 years due to severe disability, the way housing is managed in america is just a joke. it's all about the profits for the landlord, nothing else matters. credit checks are a gate to keep out poor people. deposits are a gate to keep out poor people. you wanna apply for a low-income housing program? you HAVE to have a "severe" disability diagnosis and proof that you're too disabled to afford or apply for "normal" housing. this is a gate to keep out poor people.
people in positions to help house homeless people don't care because they're housed. there's no sense of urgency. they don't have to think about what it's like to go without a roof over their head. they get paid tens of dollars an hour to sit there and scoff at all of the "lazy poor and disabled people who should just get jobs and stop whining and expecting to have things handed to them." they get paid to ignore emails and take 2 hour long lunches to forget about how hard and scary the world really is.
how the FUCK are you supposed to work when you don't have a place to sleep at night, shower, or eat? come the fuck on. use your goddamn brain. this system is built off of abuse, lying and torture. nobody earns an "honest" day's pay, none of this is "honest" work. it's all built off of the backs of lying and stealing from someone who needs it more. jobs aren't given to the person who's the most qualified- they're given to the person who lied the most to make themselves sound good during the interview. jobs are given to people who are good at interviews, NOT people who are GOOD at what they do.
i don't know how to tell you that when the average person isn't making enough to eat, fuel their car or pay for their phone, they also can't afford the roof over their head. disabled people and low-income people are struggling even worse with this. i don't know how to tell people that you should care about this.
we are literally all the same species. we are all humans. you cannot look down on disabled, poor and addicted people because we're "scum" and "less than human". we're not. that's a lie you're being fed by capitalism to feel better about yourself so you'll keep blindly working. wake up. this is not how humans behave. you're being brainwashed. everyone needs a stable home. EVERYONE. especially if you want them to contribute to your stupid money machine.
capitalism makes no fucking sense. give people homes or get the fuck out of our way, because we're about to just start taking them. this is unsustainable. this is unliveable. this system doesn't fucking work. a system that leaves its people to starve and die while apartments, homes, condos, and hotel rooms stay empty and collect dust doesn't work. none of this shit works. fuck this fascist system. none of us are free.
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lastcatghost · 2 months
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All landlords, cops and billionaires must perpetuate evil in order to maintain their status as such in society, if they didn't help uphold the evils of this system, they won't remain any of these 3 for long
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hussyknee · 8 months
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Idk how people go into social science research knowing that you're anyway going to spend your entire life arguing with wilfully ignorant fuckwits over stuff like "keeping one-tenth of the world's GDP locked up in a handful of people's accounts is bad for a functional economy'', "you shouldn't have to pay money to stay alive", "letting people mind their own business won't hurt you", "knowledge is good actually", "people have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies", "children are people too", "germs are real", "spreading disease is bad for society", "genocide is bad actually", "letting the government kill people puts everyone in danger because everyone is people", "access to long-distance murder weapons increases the chances of getting murdered", "you can't give a clump of cells the same rights as a human being" ad fucking nauseaum until you die.
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emdotcom · 2 years
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Some people on this planet continue to react to other people w/ some shit like "This cave belong to Gubgar!! Nobody else allowed in Gubgar cave!!!!"
You're not a caveman. This isn't preschool. The world isn't yours, in any capacity. Learn to share.
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sherry-a-h · 3 months
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Fuck anti-homeless architecture.
There have always been too few benches for elderly and disabled, or otherwise just straight up exhausted people to sit on. Homeless people deserve some fucking comforts, and any government that decides to make cities worse for everyone to spite the people that need it's help gets zero respect from me.
We have all at least seen pictures of those benches with a "wheelchair gap" those shitty tilted benches that aren't really possible to sleep nor comfortably sit on. The literal fucking spikes under bridges.
But I've never seen this before:
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A young kid could wobble around on it and fall backwards and hit their head open.
If I were any less tall than 161cm/5'3, then sitting on it would have become a balancing act. I am already disabled and had to sit on this hell sideways because I couldn't put my travel backpack next to me cause it would fall off with my electronics inside, lifting it of the ground would have been difficult, and because it has 30cm of depth it alone was sitting on the bench when I wasn't turned.
And while sitting sideways was possible, it really unbalanced me and painfully pushed on my joints, which isn't great cause they can be pushed out of their socket pretty easily without the fucking bench's help.
This type of architectural design is just blatantly anti-human, and as a human being I really fucking hate it.
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itsbansheebitch · 2 months
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Anti-Homeless Architecture is a Tax Dollar Black Hole
Why pay for this:
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When we could pay for something more like this:
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Or, you know, HOUSING the HOMELESS. As someone who has done construction, it REALLY doesn't cost that much to build a house. You could probably get volunteers to help, too. This is NOT that hard. Politicians are just greedy and (nonconsensually) sadistic. They use weaponized incompetence and are purposefully obtuse.
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samijami · 11 months
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If you're ever in my parents' mindset and say the reason homeless people are homeless is because they are mentally fucked and won't help themselves (or choose to be homeless), go and learn something in school for once.
Most homeless people I see/hear of anymore are homeless because they've been through hell and can't financially support themselves, or pay for medication to support their mental health and hence will not be accepted into jobs. They can't even afford clothing to be presentable for an interview or to even show up to work without being looked down upon/fired for lack of cleanliness.
And people who aren't even like the first point, are still caught in the second one. They don't have the money to afford an outfit for work to not be immediately dropped on their ass for being unclean. And plus, if ever given money, these people will need food. They will buy food with the money, not clothes.
And some places won't hire homeless people regardless of anything. People are assholes and this is America, this is capitalism. They take everything you own and when you have nothing left, they let you die. That's the entire point of it being like this.
(And the people who physically cannot get a job and sustain it are fucked too).
Even when we are kind enough to help those in need, there are too many perfectly wealthy people who fake being homeless/in need that we've lost hope in those who are actually in need of our help.
Please stop this madness.
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radicalrascal · 7 months
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Rent is Theft Raccoon! 🥰
Check it out in my Etsy shop 💕
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janhetjoch · 3 months
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the US, sending Eleanor Roosevelt to be the Chair of the drafting committee in charge of creating the Universal Declaration for Human Rights:
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[Image Description: a screenshot from the United Nations website. It reads, "Article 25: 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." End of image description.]
the US: ok so how do we do that
the US: oh, i know! :)
the US:
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[Image Description: 2 screenshots from google. The first says, "Types / Types of hostile architecture". In bold are the words "This list is far from exhaustive and is in no particular order." Followed by a bulleted list with many entries that trail off, reading:
"Slanted benches: More than just an uncomfortable seat. ...
Armrests on benches: They're not for your arms. ...
Rocky pavements: The reason behind unusual paving...
Spiked windowsills: Not just for the birds. ...
Segmented benches: An unusual design with a purpose."
The listing has a link with the text reading "More items..." and is from an article titled "15 Examples of 'Anti-Homeless' Hostile Architecture" from interestingengineering.com, November 22, 2020.
It then has another section titled "Cost / Hostile architecture cost" with a blurb that reads "It costs taxpayers $31,065 a year to criminalize a single person suffering from homelessness — through enforcement of unconstitutional anti-panhandling laws, hostile architecture, police raids of homeless encampments, and just general harassment. The cost of providing them supportive housing — $10,051 per year." The section is from an article entitled "The Cost to Criminalize Homelessness" from homelessvoice.org, May 10, 2021.
The second screenshot says, "Purpose / What is the point of hostile architecture" with a blurb that reads, "Hostile architecture is an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide or restrict behaviour. It often targets people who use or rely on public space more than others, such as youth, poor people, and homeless people, by restricting the physical behaviours they can engage in." This section is from the Wikipedia article for Hostile Architecture.
The last section is titled "Pros / Pros of hostile architecture" with a blurb that reads, "By preventing loitering, hostile architecture discourages drug drops and pushes out the homeless (CNN). These eyesores, which somewhat resemble medieval torture methods, allow hostility to permeate public spaces." This section is from an article entitled, "Hostile Architecture - Dear Asian Youth" from dearasianyouth.org, February 21, 2021.
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the US: omg we did such a good job these things totally match we definitely fixed the problem instead of making it worse or harming more people :)))
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mikeybreathesfire · 1 year
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Housing and Food is a fundamental human right (literally necessary for survival!!) and the govt should absolutely subsidize it completely idc idc idc
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chronic-cryptid · 2 years
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Abelism and Homelessness 
So, random thought of the day. 
So, my Dad tells me a story today about a time he and his wife were coming home on the bus from the hospital after her chemo. She has cancer. Obviously she doesn’t feel good. At the station they have benches with the arm in the middle to prevent homeless people from laying down. She lays in my dad’s lap while waiting for their bus. They are paying ticket holders. An employee comes over and tells her she can’t lay down. Dad explains she’s sick. She just came from chemo and there’s not a lot of people there. She’s not taking up anyone else’s space, like is it really hurting anything? They said she can either sit up or get the hell out. Like damn? No humanity. No empathy. No sympathy. Just that’s the rules. The end. Fuck you?
That’s when it dawned on me how many other people anti-homeless architecture probably affects in so many different ways besides homeless people as if that wasn’t cruel enough already. 
Just damn it people. 
Have a heart.
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lastcatghost · 4 months
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I've eaten literal trash in my life, but I've got texture aversion and am picky with certain foodstuffs, and even when taking some strangers leftovers out the trash, I was also picky bout what trash I'd eat lol
The saying beggars can't be choosers is bullshit to a big extent, and even poor people should be able to have preferences like human fucking nature
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temistheranger · 7 months
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why not break the noise pain machines yourself and take an active role in the betterment of your spaces
They put 'em up high (like 20 ft) on the wall and I am but a smol bean with a 6 ft ladder. Also they function as intended and make me want to leave the area asap.
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spottedbread · 10 months
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We're living in a fucking dystopia.
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As it turns out, Danny makes a pretty good leader. His little gang of homeless children has grown immensely, both from picking up strays and from assimilating other gangs into his group.
Danny might only be 10 and still figuring out his powers but dang, intangibility and flight are over powered even before you add invisibility and laser blasts. At first he regretted sneaking into the lab alone to check out the portal his parents made in this basement. Waking up in a cold alley in a city you've never heard of is a terrifying experience even without the corrupt cops trying to sell you into human trafficking, but finding out he had powers and could do whatever he wanted? That was great. It no longer mattered that adults didn't listen to him or chased him around. He could do anything now. Be anything. Take anything.
He and the people under his protection often robbed places, never banks or anything but high class restaurants and stores that usually wouldn't even let them in through the front doors. Yeah, Danny can admit most of thier robberies were because of grudges the other kids had because of how they were treated but Danny being ten thought this was fine.
The real issue was Gothams Paw Patrol (who absolutely hate being called that :3 ) they were always on thier case, Dannys especially. They kept insisting that the system could help them -Danny called bull. No one helped him or Jazz back in Amity and it was waaaay nicer that Gotham- and kept getting him and his fellow kids arrested. That didn't really matter. Anti-meta stuff never worked on him so getting himself the other kids out was no big deal.
After overhearing a conversation between Nightwing and one of the other bats a kid came into thier current secret base announcing that Nightwing was poor and the other bats weren't. This caught everyone attention. Appearently Nightwing was trying to establish himself outside of the colony cause he didn't get along great with whoever the bats super daddy was, which was fair. A lot of them were runaways for one reason or another and knew a bunch of reasons why you wouldn't want to except "free" money.
This led to them fetching Nightwings "wingdings" and batarangs instead of keeping them/selling them like they do with the others, sharing some of thier spoils with him like the groceries, jewelry, fancy clothes, ect that they stole.
Dick even catches one of the kids in his apartment in Bludhaven filling up his fridge which has him panicking about his secret id being compromised. Luckly the kids had only followed him there and didn't think to check who was on the lease or anything cause they assumed it would be a fake name or something.
Just Dick getting forcibly adopted by a child gang.
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