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In reply to the discussion: Activists poured concrete all over some "anti-homeless spikes" this morning [View all]nilesobek
(1,423 posts)in other threads I spent 8 of the last 10 years homeless. I became so good at living homeless I honestly didn't think I could go back to living any other way. Just me and my adult epileptic son, crisscrossing the USA, sleeping in woods and ditches, watching my son quiver into another grand mal seizure. One time it happened by a busy road. No one stopped, no one tried to help, no one even called 911.
Here's a little tidbit of info I'm not sure if you know about. On the East coast, the authorities are far less concerned with property damage as they were with human damage. But on the West coast, property rights and damages are their major concern.
In California there was violence all around us, a regular thing. But don't steal a block of cheese from Safeway, because you are going to jail. When I was in Northern Maine, property crime was frequent and overlooked, but don't dare lay finger on another person, or you are going to jail.
At the rate they are fencing off the land out west will assure that, eventually, there will be nowhere else for the homeless to go.
Your pov and comments are always interesting, thanks.