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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:14:10 JST Adrianna Tan

   The ‘do something about homeless people in the Tenderloin’ crowd yelled about this a little too loudly before the elections and now the TL has surprisingly few homeless people. They’ve all moved into the neighborhoods of these people yelling about it. I would be laughing about the conservatives doing this to themselves, but I wouldn’t wish conservatives on anyone, and especially not homeless people who they are so cruel to.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:16:25 JST Adrianna Tan

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     There’s an unsurprising number of people in SF who believe if you ‘lock em up’ you can solve homelessness

     There’s an even larger number of people in SF who seem to believe homeless people choose to reject shelter. You know, the shelter that we don’t actually have

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     Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:19:31 JST Carolyn

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     @skinnylatte And some of the shelters are scary enough to prefer to avoid.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:19:31 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Carolyn

     @CStamp there is a distressing story about an immigrant who left a very dangerous situation and go to a sf homeless shelter and lost most of her limbs because of an infection :/

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:21:17 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Joanna Holman

     @joannaholman yeah. Sadly the same here

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     Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:21:18 JST Joanna Holman

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     @skinnylatte or that assume that people reject shelter where available for frivolous reasons. Something that’s stuck with me from years ago was an interview I read with a homeless woman living on the streets who was intending to stay that way until she could get a private unit. She felt safer on the streets than in most shelter options as on the streets she could be around trusted people for protection in places she understood but in a shelter environment she got shoved in close quarters with unsafe people

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:21:46 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Joanna Holman

     @joannaholman they also make you leave super early and you have to queue again to enter for the next night, leaving them with no room to leave stuff and like, look for a job