A new Harvard analysis finds people across income levels got squeezed by rent hikes during the pandemic. The market has lost millions of low-rent places, and new construction is mostly high-end.
They finally put out the no sleep benches in my city. For a long time it looked like they weren’t going to, and I had some respect for who ever was saying no to them.
Thankfully, there’s way too many low concrete walls in this city for them to be able to do that, but the library (my wife is a library administrator) also lets them stay there all day and even sleep in a chair or sleep outside the library as long as they don’t set up camp. They’re also opening up a new branch in another part of town where they will have a sign-up sheet and one person at a time will have access to a room with a washer, a dryer and a shower. All free. Libraries are amazing in what they do for the poor, let alone the community as a whole… so at least someone is trying to help the desperate people in this town, but it’s not nearly enough and there’s so much fighting against it, even against the library. People came to the board meeting where this got approved from the neighborhood talking about how they had homeless people camping in their backyards (what have they tried actually doing about it if that’s even true) and it would bring even more to the area. And fuck those NIMBY assholes.
They finally put out the no sleep benches in my city. For a long time it looked like they weren’t going to, and I had some respect for who ever was saying no to them.
Thankfully, there’s way too many low concrete walls in this city for them to be able to do that, but the library (my wife is a library administrator) also lets them stay there all day and even sleep in a chair or sleep outside the library as long as they don’t set up camp. They’re also opening up a new branch in another part of town where they will have a sign-up sheet and one person at a time will have access to a room with a washer, a dryer and a shower. All free. Libraries are amazing in what they do for the poor, let alone the community as a whole… so at least someone is trying to help the desperate people in this town, but it’s not nearly enough and there’s so much fighting against it, even against the library. People came to the board meeting where this got approved from the neighborhood talking about how they had homeless people camping in their backyards (what have they tried actually doing about it if that’s even true) and it would bring even more to the area. And fuck those NIMBY assholes.