Are there rules about keeping all your crap within the confines of your vehicle (at night | on weekdays | during street sweeping) at all?
I find the sea of detritus present in these camps - seemingly right after the first resident shows up - is a huge factor in the public seeing them as risky and dangerous.
Every single media story on homeless campers is jammed with shot after lingering shot showing a carpet of junk covering everything; and while it’s neat to set up some deck chairs in front of the Winnebago, I’d love to see some process or policy that keeps everyone’s shit either bottled up in their hard tents periodically or moved toward the sorter and recycler.
It’d help promote the “campers are just people and not the rubbish of society” idea that we know in our brains but need to also feel in our hearts.
I can imagine being homeless, under the worst stress and despair I’ve ever experienced, and not having any mental budget left for caring about whether or not my object is on the inside or the outside of my tiny metal box that doesn’t let my lie all the way down at night.
Nothing can help promote the idea that the campers are real people if the media doesn’t want to show it. Showing sloven bums making a mess of everything around them because they don’t want to get a real job is great for ratings. Don’t matter if it doesn’t represent reality.
Are there rules about keeping all your crap within the confines of your vehicle (at night | on weekdays | during street sweeping) at all?
I find the sea of detritus present in these camps - seemingly right after the first resident shows up - is a huge factor in the public seeing them as risky and dangerous.
Every single media story on homeless campers is jammed with shot after lingering shot showing a carpet of junk covering everything; and while it’s neat to set up some deck chairs in front of the Winnebago, I’d love to see some process or policy that keeps everyone’s shit either bottled up in their hard tents periodically or moved toward the sorter and recycler.
It’d help promote the “campers are just people and not the rubbish of society” idea that we know in our brains but need to also feel in our hearts.
I can imagine being homeless, under the worst stress and despair I’ve ever experienced, and not having any mental budget left for caring about whether or not my object is on the inside or the outside of my tiny metal box that doesn’t let my lie all the way down at night.
Nothing can help promote the idea that the campers are real people if the media doesn’t want to show it. Showing sloven bums making a mess of everything around them because they don’t want to get a real job is great for ratings. Don’t matter if it doesn’t represent reality.