And that became such a halting thought that I forgot to rinse the shampoo out of my hair.
In the UK they sometimes just confiscate their tents to make the problem go away
If a 2M employee return to work order is declared soon, I could see us in the US finding ourselves with tent cities full of white collar workers.
Submitted 1 week ago by wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
pedz@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Confiscate? They are getting it back at some point? Because in Montreal and North America in general, the police just treat homeless people’s stuff like radioactive trash. They just clear the place with machinery and put all the stuff in a trash container.
Some homeless people here have lost ID cars and important documents because once the police decides the camp is gone, the homeless can’t go back to get their stuff. Its just all going to the dump, with everything inside.
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
A man in Atlanta was recently killed because he was inside a tent as a front end loader ran over him while the city was clearing the encampment which was in a parking lot near MLK’s church. They were clearing because of expected crowds on MLK day.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They definitely do this in the US as well… problem solved! 🙃
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Isnt the point of these things to get people to quit?
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Take a minute to look through all the photos of hoovervilles. Tens of thousands of people in tents, often with the apartments they were evicted from and the factories closed or running at a fraction of capacity within a few hundred yards.
How would you explain to aliens why tens of thousands of people in every city were driven from their homes empty to live in squalor while being prevented from doing anything productive?
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Ah yes, 2025: the year that the shantytown returned to the US