The bottom line is in order to get a political win,
@Mayor_Steinberg and @mridleythomas are pushing right to shelter which will greatly increase costs and do nothing to end homelessness. There is also some really funky language that looks like they're going to force people 1/
You should write Steinberg! I know the last time this was discussed several mos ago, it got walked back to a bill that streamlined shelter approvals across the state (which was killed anyway).
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seems likely it's because pols are constantly hearing from housed & especially homeowning constituents who are angry and outraged about the visible poor - that is, the poor being so visible.
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it touches deep wellsprings of repugnance, fear, contamination, and possibly somewhere for some, guilt
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He's cc'd on this thread in hopes that we are writing to him. Aren't we?
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