Thread by @absurdistwords, This requires national attention and broad community support.Philadelphia, like many other cities [...]

This requires national attention and broad community support.

Philadelphia, like many other cities will expend more resources to threaten, abuse and brutalize the homeless than to house them.

These families are in danger from the people tasked to help. https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/09/15/parkway-encampment-move-bombing/">https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020...

I Fear the Encampment Crisis Could End Up Like the MOVE Bombing

Current efforts by the city to force our most vulnerable residents from the Parkway are starting to feel like a recipe for disaster, and hearken back to one of Philadelphia's darkest days.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/09/15/parkway-encampment-move-bombing/

It& #39;s really imperative that people stop thinking of homelessness as "someone else& #39;s problem" because there is a looming eviction crisis dovetailing with a growing unemployment crisis.

So it& #39;s not gonna be abstract for a lot of you reading this real soon.

Yes. I get that the principled stance is that we should care about unhoused people because they& #39;re people.

But we don& #39;t. We just don& #39;t. And we& #39;ve proven that consistently for decades.

So lemme remind you again.

This could be you or someone you love in the IMMEDIATE future.

The simple fact is that huge swaths of this country are going to see massive increases in homelessness among people formerly ABOVE the poverty line.

And when that hits you or someone you love, you& #39;re gonna want resources and compassion.

You& #39;re gonna want HELP.

So invest NOW.

So many of you have spent your lives thinking "There but for the grace of God go I"

I& #39;m telling you the grace of God is running on empty.

So very soon. There go you.

There go those you care about.

You get laid off, you can& #39;t pay rent in time, your landlord doesn& #39;t care, you don& #39;t have a couch for you and your kids to crash on, can& #39;t pay your phone bill, credit tanks, you have no forwarding address...

And so you do what you can to get by till you catch a break.

Then COPS.

They destroy your stuff.
They beat you up.
They traumatize your kids

This isn& #39;t what you want in place for you if this happens to you or loved ones.

You want a system to help families not have to spend another night like this so they can get back to a warm, safe, dry home.

You don& #39;t need someone telling you that you don& #39;t understand finance.

You don& #39;t need someone telling you you& #39;re a bad parent.

You don& #39;t need someone teaching you how to live

You need HELP and MONEY so you can just clear up your crisis so you can get back to living your lives

You KNOW what you would need if you and your family got kicked out of your home and you had nowhere to turn.

You know you do.

You wouldn& #39;t be confused. You& #39;d just need someone to have your back so you could do it.

Right now there& #39;s a bunch of families in Philly who have hit hard times. They just hit them earlier than you or your loved ones.

They know what they need.

They& #39;re trying to get it.

And instead of helping, their government is threatening them.

This isn& #39;t what we want.

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