New Program Takes Rare Approach of Treating Homeless People Like Human Beings—And It Works

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5. Excellent program.

Particularly in removing the patronizing curfew.

I wish my city were as progressive - but we currently have a mayor who is the wife of a former, very well known mayor (who once had the city buy one-way tickets out of town for a bus load of homeless people - his idea of "improving" the situation). She doesn't really speak to the issue, but I doubt she feels much differently; combined with a city council full of conservatives, faux liberals, and law-and-order types it means the efforts are mostly from the volunteer sector with limited government funding.

And of course it doesn't help that we've got Tony Hsieh busily trying to create his own little downtown nirvana, which doesn't include those icky folks living in pay by the hour/day/week/month, just on the edge of condemnation former motels. Sours his vibe, so he bought up most of the properties, said "oh, well" to the tenants, and fenced them off. But not before he slapped a coat of paint on the outsides and painted the plywood covering the doors and windows to look like door and windows. Because it would hurt the hipsters' feelings if they had to walk by a fenced off empty building that had old paint and plain ol' plywood over the doors and windows . . .

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