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Originally Posted by Slava
I just think if some people are cool with this kind of thing and have no issues, power to them. They can live next to these encampments when they normalize them
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That’s disingenuous, no? Nobody wants to live next to an encampment. Have you ever actually experienced a large one first hand? Not nice.
The judge suggesting that the city needed to ensure there was accessible, low-barrier shelter is not saying “encampments are great and normal!” The ruling was simply that you can not rip up their tents and send them out into the cold. If the city had an accessible shelter (like Calgary’s Drop In or Mustard Seed) then the ruling would have been different.
Acting like the judge is “cool” with it or was trying to normalize it is dumb. Nobody is cool with it. Not even the most empathetic people want it to be a normal thing. Everyone, including the judge, believes people have a right to shelter, and believe that cities should provide shelter for unhoused individuals instead of leaving them to sleep outside and make camps.