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mekka okereke verified @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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There's lots of noise in SF about homeless folk "refusing shelter" and "They want to live in tents!" And that we should force them to accept the shelter against their own will, "for their own good!" Many SF folks rationalize their desire to not see homeless people, by convincing ourselves that refusing shelter is an irrational behaviour, and that we know better.

We don't consider the fact that people might be refusing shelter when that shelter is worse than a tent.

www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/sf-sro-empty/

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​:butterfly_lesbian:​ Jennifer ​:butterfly_trans:​ @transcendentempress@peculiar.florist
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@mekkaokereke Often linked to those housing issues, you find the very same patterns regarding jobs.

Here in France I hear this discourse a lot, "why are people refusing work, there are unfilled jobs, why do they refuse them and keep relying on state's aid?"

And in the very same way, not once do these people ask themselves if the true issue might be said jobs. When it's not they are fully aware of it and simply refuse to admit it.
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