“Interactions,” “Mental Health Intervention,” “Cleaning Up Encampments”: The Squishy Euphemisms Media Use to Make Liberals Feel Good About Criminalizing Homelessness
“Interactions,” “Mental Health Intervention,” “Cleaning Up Encampments”: The Squishy Euphemisms Media Use to Make Liberals Feel Good About Criminalizing Homelessness
How Democratic mayors address homelessness is a balancing act of carrying out the demands of capital but wanting to seem really nice when doing it. Here's how the media assists them.
Just to be clear, when Adams and others say "homeless", they are only talking about the visibly unhoused. The others are out of sight and out of mind.
And all the talk of mental health counselors and crisis intervention seems designed to distract from the fact that the root problem of homelessness is lack of affordable housing.
This is a great article per usual, the one point that I would like to make as a father. We live in Seattle, my beloved city of 24yrs, regrettably there are large swaths of downtown in the daytime, that my wife will not go, by herself or with our young son. Civic and public safety to me outweigh concerns over sanitized language and squishy articles. Take a stroll down 3rd Ave in Seattle, open air dealing, use, ODs, violent assault. The status quo is unacceptable, obviously mental health, and addiction therapy needs are not being met. But it's near impossible to get funding for that, or sympathy from moderates when they see a beautiful city turned into a toilet. Empathy is hard to come by when people are literally afraid for their safety in a large number of areas. That said, love your writing Adam. Hopefully when I find a job I'll become a paid subscriber.
For several years, the MTA has sought legal authorization, from Albany, to ban individuals [after a determination by an administrative tribunal or local court] from entering MTA facilities---stations, trains, buses, depots, etc. Violating a ban would be a crime.
Just to be clear, when Adams and others say "homeless", they are only talking about the visibly unhoused. The others are out of sight and out of mind.
And all the talk of mental health counselors and crisis intervention seems designed to distract from the fact that the root problem of homelessness is lack of affordable housing.
This is a great article per usual, the one point that I would like to make as a father. We live in Seattle, my beloved city of 24yrs, regrettably there are large swaths of downtown in the daytime, that my wife will not go, by herself or with our young son. Civic and public safety to me outweigh concerns over sanitized language and squishy articles. Take a stroll down 3rd Ave in Seattle, open air dealing, use, ODs, violent assault. The status quo is unacceptable, obviously mental health, and addiction therapy needs are not being met. But it's near impossible to get funding for that, or sympathy from moderates when they see a beautiful city turned into a toilet. Empathy is hard to come by when people are literally afraid for their safety in a large number of areas. That said, love your writing Adam. Hopefully when I find a job I'll become a paid subscriber.
For several years, the MTA has sought legal authorization, from Albany, to ban individuals [after a determination by an administrative tribunal or local court] from entering MTA facilities---stations, trains, buses, depots, etc. Violating a ban would be a crime.