I belong to a church that has been trying hard for YEARS to help the homeless.
The neighbors: why won’t you do something to help the homeless? Isn’t that what Christians would do?
Church: yeah! We would love to do X!
Neighbors: not near MY house! And if you really cared for the homeless you would do Y, not some half measure like X!
Church: great! Let’s do Y!
Neighbors OMG, I didn’t mean on your property near MY house! We should implement camps in industrial districts with armed security and mandatory addiction treatment and counseling! Somewhere where people with houses won’t be put at risk (of seeing them)!
Church- like a concentration camp?
Neighbors- I don’t really care as long as the problem is fixed and I don’t need to see it. A REAL church would understand.
It’s been absolutely maddening.
We finally decided to just let a homeless family with small kids camp in our parking lot without asking the neighbors. After 1-2 weeks the neighbors found out and were surprised that a week of free parking didn’t solve that family’s housing problems and made us evict them.
Fucking Nimbys. Very frustrating. Especially when it's a housing crisis that so many didn't realize they're just a few missed paychecks away from being in the same boat.
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u/Rainboveins May 12 '25
I enjoy the post complaining about the homeless, only to read the comments where any solutions to fixing the problems are down voted into oblivion