The following is an op-ed by Benjamin Adam, an organizer with North Brooklyn Essentials, reflecting on city-wide sweeps of housing encampments.
As many readers know, for more than a year North Brooklyn Essentials (an initiative of North Brooklyn Mutual Aid) has been facilitating communication between our homeless neighbors, Sanitation, and DHS in order to clean up unwanted trash underneath the BQE while making sure our neighbors are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.…
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This article is a puff piece.. No solutions to this problem are offered!
Either provide these people with humane housing (in NYC or else-ware!) OR remove them from the streets… If you (as a community member) wish to genuinely help this population, please take them in YOUR home. Otherwise please, STFU!
I second OmanRa’a opinion. This is not a solution at all.