Opinion | HayesBrown: During the pandemic’s early days, there was a brief moment when protecting homeless people from the virus was deemed a priority. Now, L.A. County officials say Project Roomkey is set to end in September, citing budgetary concerns.
Who are these laws and policies actually serving — people who are homeless or people who are housed?
This all leads to an important question: Who are these laws and policies actually serving — people who are homeless or people who are housed? The answer on both coasts can be seen pretty clearly in the return to pre-pandemic methods of addressing homelessness. That’s traditionally involved erasure, finding new ways to remove the evidence of homelessness from the city streets.
Things are no better in Los Angeles, where Mayor Eric Garcetti signed a newly passed ordinance that critics say basically makes being homeless in the city a crime. The provision outlaws “sitting, sleeping or storing items” around parks, schools, libraries and other public facilities,. It also bans camping on sidewalks, underpasses, freeway ramps and within 1,000 feet of shelters.
Let’s pause here to note how little the recent campaigns in New York and L.A. are focused on bettering the lives of people experiencing homelessness and in fact will instead leave them vulnerable to Covid-19. Whereas a year ago, cities were trying to prevent the pandemic from spreading among homeless populations, the current solution is to shove them into overcrowded shelters again, where social distancing is impossible.The biggest difference now is vaccines.
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