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    HappyPapsmearAndy Cush
    3/10/16 10:45am

    The post sucks and a reporter causing this is wrong. However, people can’t hoard tons of items and keep them in public spaces. My neighborhood is becoming over run with people’s hoarded items- You can’t set up a couch and treat the street like its a living room. Homelessness is a serious issue and the city needs to come up with an ethical and sustainable solution. But, allowing people to keep 3, 4, 5, shopping carts worth of items on random street corners? And when they are done with these items it becomes garbage that just sits there...

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      AdjraHappyPapsmear
      3/10/16 10:58am

      I am not trying to attack you, but am trying to understand the reasoning behind your post. It appears you live in NYC? I am trying to understand this (my italics added):

      You can’t set up a couch and treat the street like its a living room. Homelessness is a serious issue and the city needs to come up with an ethical and sustainable solution. But, allowing people to keep 3, 4, 5, shopping carts worth of items on random street corners?

      It seems to me that you view the first and third points as separate or on the same footing as the second point, is that correct? But, isn’t the first and third actually a direct result of the second point- or more specifically a result of the fact that there is not an ethical or sustainable solution (or solution at all) to homelessness? I guess what I am asking you is, if you believe homelessness is a serious issue that must be solved and one which is not being solved, then, in the absence of a solution, how exactly do you expect homeless people to live? Why is the trade off not: 1) the city is not fixing this human rights issue; therefore 2) until it does, of course homeless people will live on the streets and that street is actually exactly like a ‘living room’ (which they otherwise don’t have and we admit no one is doing shit to help them get them an actual living room)?

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      XrdsAlumHappyPapsmear
      3/10/16 11:32am

      If a mayor who’s painted by his conservative opponents as a hippie socialist isn’t interested in coming up with an ethical and sustainable solution to homelessness (ahem - Housing First - ahem) then I doubt any mayor will. The main goal in NYC since Giuliani has been to make the homeless invisible or disappear them so that affluent residents and visitors don’t have to see the embarrassing evidence of our rich and powerful nation’s dysfunction in its premier city.

      Even Housing First isn’t the answer for mentally ill people who live on the streets. Yes, this woman taking her hoarding disorder out into the streets needs to be addressed, but it’s clear she doesn’t want to listen to the social workers, let alone the cops. The only real solution in her case might be involuntary commitment to a mental facility, and there are serious questions about the ethics and sustainability of doing that for a large portion of NYC’s homeless population.


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    EnterAnyKeyAndy Cush
    3/10/16 10:43am

    I saw this woman, around 9th and 49th about 2 months ago.

    I dont understand why they dont want to go to shelters. I at the shelter on 36th between 7th and 8th for like a week. it was friendly.

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      2016EnterAnyKey
      3/10/16 10:48am

      Because mental illness.

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      kamla deviEnterAnyKey
      3/10/16 10:51am

      Shelters aren’t necessarily safe-havens for the homeless. They perceive danger in potentially being assaulted, having their belongings taken away from them, and possibly being arrested and detained by the police.

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    toothpetardAndy Cush
    3/10/16 10:46am

    The view from the good seats must have been great.

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      Fred Garvin Male Prostitutetoothpetard
      3/10/16 1:05pm

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      lactatingmerauder (fka JustaChick)toothpetard
      3/10/16 1:40pm

      I know right?

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    redmen1985Andy Cush
    3/10/16 10:51am

    I applaud the Post for getting this woman help. Does anyone really think that a mentally ill person should be allowed to live on the streets of NYC pulling a block long caravan of trash? Please.

    If this woman parked her garbage in front of your residence, you’d be the first person to complain.

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      You might be wrong.redmen1985
      3/10/16 12:20pm

      What specific help did they get for her?

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      redmen1985You might be wrong.
      3/10/16 1:39pm

      It really doesn’t matter. There are some people who can’t be helped. You could put her in a Park Ave apartment and she would still destroy herself.

      Just for laughs, what would you do for her?

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    Andrew MochulskyAndy Cush
    3/10/16 10:44am

    Finally, the city is cracking down on everything that blocks the sidewalk and traffic. Can’t wait until they impound and throw out six million people and their cars.

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      HarvestMoonAndrew Mochulsky
      3/10/16 11:01am

      Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
      There’s nothing you can’t do
      Now you’re in New York
      These streets will make you feel brand new
      Big lights will inspire you
      Let’s hear it for New York!

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      AlmightyPoopcatAndrew Mochulsky
      3/10/16 11:38am

      Plainly the Framers of our Constitution intended clear sidewalks and unimpeded traffic to be the absolute supreme legal interest of the United States — which is why the Bill of Rights specifically states, right there at the top, that the exercise of all individual rights are subordinate to America’s Greatest Right of All: the right of pedestrians and drivers to not be even slightly inconvenienced by anyone (except the government).

      Let freedom ring!

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    The Noble RenardAndy Cush
    3/10/16 10:42am

    Look, if you guys really want to fight fire with fire, go send a photographer to the homes of the NY Post editors who were responsible for the story.

    Then detail their every move, in excruciating detail.

    /of course, you could do it to the photographers and the reporters too, but presumably they were just doing as ordered, since they really don’t look happy to be there.

    //Edit: On second thought, one of the reporters on the story, Kevin Fasick, is the piece of shit who dressed up like a homeless guy to prove some kind of point about de Blasio not liking homeless people. He’s also a paparazzo who challenged Alec Baldwin to a fight after Baldwin shoved him. Someone go find the creepy porn he likes and broadcast that all over the internet, see how he likes it.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4The Noble Renard
      3/10/16 10:46am

      Nah, I say follow the reporters around too. And the copy editors. Any the headline writers. And anyone else who had something to do with that BS story which pointed out she was from Puerto Rico and spoke Spanish for no fucking reason other than the obvious reason. if they were able to dig that up, they should also have been able to dig up the reasons she was living on the street in the first place. “Just following orders” is still a skeevy excuse.

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      KumfinemeeThe Noble Renard
      3/10/16 10:49am

      Who gave them the tip that the NYPD and Sanitation would be there?

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    WhatthefoxsaysAndy Cush
    3/10/16 10:49am

    There was a homeless woman who camped in my neighborhood for a few weeks last year. She had at least 7 or 8 carts filled with garbage. And I mean literal garbage- dirty styrofoam food containers, plastic bottles, etc. Most of it was not what people would consider “possessions” in the normal sense of the word. And at some point, it becomes a health hazard- I have no doubt the rats invaded her carts every night.

    It seems heartless to take away a person’s possessions, however worthless they are, but you have to draw a line between indulging someone’s mental illness and public health/safety.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4Whatthefoxsays
      3/10/16 10:53am

      It seems heartless to take away a person’s possessions, however worthless they are, but you have to draw a line between indulging someone’s mental illness and public health/safety.

      I get your concern and it’s very valid, but just taking away their shit and then leaving is kind of fucked up. You mention mental illness. Was this person just left there with nothing but her mental illness?

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      WhatthefoxsaysEvenBaggierTrousers4
      3/10/16 10:56am

      Homeless Services was there, and they were apparently familiar with her from the past, so I’m guessing that they tried to provide services that she turned down. Not much can be done if she doesn’t want help and only wants her stuff.

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    Sonic Reducer 151Andy Cush
    3/10/16 10:44am

    Hey now, if you make being a homeless person difficult enough they’ll stop being homeless, right? Isn’t that how it works, bootstraps and such?

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      lillie, warrior queenSonic Reducer 151
      3/10/16 3:03pm

      That’s how abortion works (less available = less want/need), so I don’t see why this won’t work for the homeless.

      /s

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    Purkinje FibreAndy Cush
    3/10/16 10:41am

    Yeah. I don’t care. Homelessness is a choice.

    I’m a liberal and I’m sick of hearing liberals using homelessness as a political tool. It’s a fucking choice.

    You’re not more sensitive, or caring or empathetic; You’re just a sucker.

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      foolyooPurkinje Fibre
      3/10/16 10:51am

      The choice being living on the streets with what you can find or go into a shelter, shoulder to shoulder with other unwashed homeless people, have your few belongings stolen, and possibly be assaulted.

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      AshtonKutchermasterclassPurkinje Fibre
      3/10/16 10:54am

      You tell them... homeless people.

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    ArturoAndy Cush
    3/10/16 10:44am

    This is utterly reprehensible. Imagine someone coming to your home, saying you don’t need these things, and then throwing out everything except for one week’s worth of clothes. That’s essentially what’s happening here. People are the goddamned worst.

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      HappyPapsmearArturo
      3/10/16 10:49am

      Except, people with no home living on the street with tons and tons of items is not a solution either.

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      GrumpyEagleArturo
      3/10/16 11:42am

      It’s not such a black and white situation, though. Having lived in a neighborhood with (and spoken) with plenty of homeless people, I know they’re not hauling around carts full of precious family heirlooms. It’s mostly random shit they’ve dug out of the trash. When I found them dumpster diving at my building, I’d usually send them off with a bag lunch and even some clean socks, but they’d be back digging around the next day. What really sucked was that most of them would toss stuff out of the dumpster and just leave a pile of garbage on the ground once they’d gone through it. I do wish there were more semi-permanent shelter programs around, but a lot of these guys won’t go because they hate the proselytizing, the rules, and even the other homeless people. It's definitely not an easy fix.

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