protonmail_throwaway t1_j4qvthd wrote on January 17, 2023 at 5:14 PM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Adams signs $275M deal with NYC hotels to house migrants by deathhand

But they are homeless…

Just because that one crazy guy that screams at you in the park is also homeless doesn’t make these immigrants any less homeless. It’s not a word used to describe one particular type of displaced person who makes the newspaper or shits on the sidewalk.

[deleted] t1_j4qxh19 wrote on January 17, 2023 at 5:24 PM

All I’m saying is that these arriving immigrants are a different population from the homeless in the 80s that were housed in pre-war hotels. Homeless shelters don’t have a good reputation even among the homeless population itself let alone among neighbors.

protonmail_throwaway t1_j4qyr4s wrote on January 17, 2023 at 5:32 PM

A lot of different shelters, and a lot of different people living in them. I just don’t see them as categorically all that different in this regard.