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We are moving BIPOC, elderly, and medically vulnerable folks in 5 inches of snow in a fucking pandemic, into a hotel that we are paying for because the fucking city, county, and state are not stopping them from getting evicted from parks AND not giving them dignified housing
I just moved a 70 year old man whoâs had a stroke into a hotel just now in a blizzard! He is unsheltered because he got an eviction and couldnât show up to court to get it reversed because he had a fucking stroke. And he doesnât have a phone! Barely any folks have phones!
Hennepin County and the Park police are showing up to parks with bulldozers on the doorstep of a Minnesota winter, and telling people to leave or face arrest. They are bulldozing peoplesâ tents if they donât have them packed quickly enough. This is brutality.
We are paying for hotel rooms for people with kids and people fleeing domestic violence. The domestic violence shelters are full. Families are waiting on the county to get them into housing, while the county is telling people they have plenty of housing and can leave parks. 
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The countyâs main resource that they push on people is the Salvation Army, a place where many residents have told me they have been abused by the staff, and cannot go back because they have PTSD now. One woman told me she physically reacts to seeing the SA buckets at Christmas.
Please, if you have the resources help us fund emergency hotels for BIPOC, elderly, medically vulnerable folks and families who are being evicted from Minneapolis parks.
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We called Adult Shelter Connect, the resource that the county uses to place people in shelter, and there are NINE beds available for women, EIGHT beds available for men. Hennepin County showed up to multiple camps today to kick them out, citing this resource as their solution.
Remember the part where most of the folks in these camps do not have phones? The main resource the county is giving when they kick people out of an outdoor space, in a blizzard, in a pandemic.. is a phone number. And on the other end is 17 beds for the entire city of Minneapolis.
