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What we should be doing is empowering those that we are saying is affected by this policy. Instead of trying to maintain and warehouse homelessness we need to work together to empower those to overcome. We spend a lot of time focusing on encampments when we should be empowering the connections to take the person out of the encampment or shelter. As if we can focus on housing people the towns won’t have any encampments to clear. Too much hyper focus on protecting an encampment and not enough in preventing and empowering the person to not even be in the situation affected by this law. Because say that they allow encampments to stay what are you going to do to help house the people that fall through the cracks? As regardless of this law or that law. Of this debate or that debate. There are people that have no where to go and when we focus only on a law and not on action in between we are setting ourselves up for failure. This article words it as a end all situation. As someone who overcame homelessness I know that one law, one person didn’t break me. It’s the idea that a law or that the world is against you backed up by those that are supposed to be leaders and experts that breaks you. It’s when you turn to an expert or service and they say “ yea there isn’t help or this is against you” We need empowerment not pity .

All the yes on this 🙌. As someone who has faced both addiction and housing insecurities, I assure you trauma is the gateway. I do believe because we do not talk about it or share of how recovery is possible because of shame and stigma, how hope is not gone, the cycles continue. It is why I recover outloud. No human should ever be seen as a blight because they are experiencing homelessness. They are mothers, fathers, siblings, children. They ARE Philadelphians. When we say “let’s cleanup our streets and rid the neighborhood of the unhoused so we don’t have to look at it” as we’re seeing this harmful rhetoric growing recently, you are talking about your neighbors, someone’s child, someone’s family, a fellow Philadelphian. When we say those in addiction or experiencing homelessness are unworthy or unwanted, you forget that we DO recover, that if there is breath in our lungs, hope is not lost. 8 years and 2 months of life I’ve gotten to live in recovery, so when you see them as disposable, you see me, this PhD researcher, mother, daughter, sister, and nationally recognized executive leader as disposable. I AM the face of addiction. Imagine what might be possible if we all had equitable access to care and resources? I long for a city that cares for ALL of its citizens. Instead of “ridding ourselves” of the unhoused let’s rid ourselves of the barriers to healthcare, mental health services, food security, housing and employment. Human beings are not disposable elements to be swept away for your comfort. Sweep our streets of the inequities, not people. #weDOrecover #NotThrowawayPeople #addressTheTrauma

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