COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Miranda Atnip lost her home during the coronavirus pandemic after her boyfriend moved out and she fell behind on bills. Living in a car, the 34-year-old worries every day about getting money for food, finding somewhere to shower, and saving up enough money for an apartment where her three children can live with her again. https://apnews.com/article/voting-r...le-tennessee-fc4c7eb121929856d3a466030f2502e4 Now she has a new worry: Tennessee is about to become the first U.S. state to make it a felony to camp on local public property such as parks.
I’m guessing I already know the answer while posting the question, but what is the shelter situation like in cities like Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville?
Privatized prisons are such a wild concept We're behind on our quota of imprisoned humans. Can we make new outlandish laws to drive our numbers and profits up?
This would basically legalize domestic violence too. People (women, children, and yes, some men) who are in abusive households who won't be able to leave because if they need to sleep in a park or something to get away from being beaten or sexually assaulted they risk being incarcerated for 6 years.
Once challenges to this law making it a felony to camp passes court challenges, I'm sure this law will be copied in dozens of chud states. Couple this with draconian laws on abortion and LGBT rights, there's going to be millions of desperate internally displaced people stuck in the few enclaves of progressive cities, further stressing already stretched, underfunded, and understaffed social programs in these places. I mean, where do you even go if you've lost your home and need mental health / substance abuse services? Hell, DC's mayor Bowser (vote Robert White in June btw) just used bulldozers on homeless people while they were still inside their tents last fall.
We can go ahead and nuke Tennessee I don’t think there’s any redeeming quality whatsoever. If it takes out east Arkansas too then so be it.
My favorite part of anti-homeless laws is the implication that the homeless are homeless by choice. It's bananas if you think about it for about 8 seconds.
I’ve posted this before, but my biggest takeaway from the work I do with the homeless is always how simple and small things can be all that stands in their way of getting back on their feet. I met a guy who was afraid to get an ID because he knew there was a warrant for his arrest for a FTA on a five year old expired tag and no proof of insurance ticket. All that had snowballed into losing his car, job, license, and apartment. Then, he couldn’t get an ID to start over without going to jail, which terrified him. It’s fucking brutal being poor.
Wait, I thought Jesus told us to help the poor? Maybe they forgot those few hundred verses where they talk about that. Easy mistake to make.
I noticed the other day signage posted to announce camp cleanups around my way indicates a date for the cleanup but then includes language saying that folks need to take care of their shit within 72 hours of the supposed cleanup date. Like, cool, way to make that shit confusing for ppl who likely have issues with mental acuity and such good stuff much compassionate very human.
Homelessness is only going to get worse in TN as well. Developers are buying up all the land they can and forcing the residents out so that they can build house and apartments only rich people can afford.
I forget, was it Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg that was the hottest honeymoon destination. I will say Gatlingburg has to be the champ of most Old Timey Photo shops per capita
For sure. It's really bad here right now. It seems like every day there's a news story about a different community where residents are being forced out by the developer.
If that was the case they’d at least give white people healthcare. I’m not even remotely sure what these fascists actually want anymore other than wide spread suffering. All of them deserve to be (redacted)
While Gatlinburg is the superior tourist trap destination, the post in question cited Pigeon Forge a the honeymoon destination. I wish I could remember who said it, but my instincts tell me it was someone from our Arkansas contingent.
We suck at caring for the homeless. My wish is to not send $40B+ in foreign aid annually and care for the people here in the US. Nashville also sucks at caring for homeless. The city has been trying to build a micro hotel type shelter for years and a local developer offered to pay for and build it ASAP years ago but it required a land swap. The city and anti developer people complained and squashed the deal. That developer moved on and is building a 60 story condo high rise next to the Amazon towers and the city still hasn’t broken ground on the shelter.