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If we can’t afford to finance more nonprofits, then we need to designate spaces for small, self-managed homeless camps, and the city just provides port-a-potties and trash pickup and leaves them alone, as long as they’re not causing trouble.
Presenter Contrary to the popular saying, you really can fight City Hall, but you’ve got to organize. Lynn Porter says it’s time for a political movement so that the city starts helping—not harassing—local residents like Jetty Etty and Lisa Levsen, who have been caring for the homeless.
Lynn Porter There’s an old expression, ‘You can’t fight City Hall.’ Well, you sure as hell can. But it takes organization and hard work and a lot of people doing it. And right now, on the homeless issue, we have no real political organization at all…