It feels sometimes like little can shock, but this reporting by @thomasfullerNYT and @joshhaner on the slums in one of the wealthiest areas in one of the wealthiest nations, ours, stopped me short. How do we allow it? How do we care so little for our own?https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/17/us/oakland-california-homeless-camp.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage …
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Journalistically, these are the places we should be going, the stories we should be telling, and the storytelling techniques used here respect both our time and their humanity. What they reveal here is in a word: Immoral.pic.twitter.com/q3AyKh0WWX
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It's striking to me that virtually no political candidates, no matter their politics, are addressing the dire poverty of so many Americans. We have valorized this mythical middle class while judging the poor unworthy of our resources and attention. I feel ashamed.
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I personally thought this was a shallow photo essay. I’m glad it was photographed but there’s sooooo much more.
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Oakland receives a disproportionately small share of Alameda Co. revenues toward homelessness. It doesn’t have 35 years of institutional memory, $300M/yr, 70+ service providers like SF does.
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The West Bay inner tiny suburbs approved 15 jobs for every housing unit during much of this economic cycle, which pushed the workforce up in SF and now out into the East Bay, exhausting the last remnants of private market affordable rental stock in the inner ring East Bay.
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