Mail services for the homeless growing during the pandemic
Service tripled at 1 organization
By: Bo Evans
and last updated 2021-01-08 16:34:38-05
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. â âA normal day? We donât never have a normal day. Itâs always like, woah!â said postwoman Zenaida Santigo.
That s not typically how you would expect someone who delivers mail to describe their day, but Santigo isnât your neighborhood postwoman and she doesn t work at a normal post office.
âThey be cursing us out, we didnât get our mail. Woah! â said Santigo.
Santigo makes sure her community s homeless people get their mail. Sometimes they re frustrated or stressed, but don t get it confused, she cares about her clients a lot.
mistake correlation for causality when they suggest (without actually proving) that these habits are the
cause of a person’s financial situation.
(Did it never occur to them that it might be the other way around?)
Ramsey fired back, calling the pushback “immature and ignorant.” This from a guy who just made 20 sweeping assertions about
47 million poor people in the US all
based on a survey of 361 individuals.
To come up with his 20 habits, Corley talked to just
233 wealthy people and 128 poor people.
Ramsey can talk all he wants about Corley’s research passing the “
common-sense smell test,” but it doesn’t pass the “
Deaths among D.C.’s homeless jumped this year, including 23 who died of the coronavirus Justin Wm. Moyer Karim el-Amin, 42, took shelter Dec. 8 in his tent near Thomas Circle in Northwest Washington. Temperatures were turning colder that week, with lows hovering near freezing. Amin, who suffered from medical issues, did not come out again. The next day when someone checked on him, he was found dead. He is buried with family members at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, just across the D.C. line in Prince George’s County. “I guess he died in his sleep,” said his brother, Qaadir el-Amin. “At least it was a peaceful death.”
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Police and downtown advocates at the meeting hailed the measure as a way to address problems encountered by residents, tourists and businesses. This ordinance is going to be a great tool for us, Deputy Police Chief Rick Morris told the commissioners. It doesn’t take our compassion away.. It gives us opportunity to enforce laws but more importantly it gives us tools to help people.
Civil libertarians were quick to reject the provisions as unconstitutional attempts to criminalize behavior rather than address causes – and as mean-spirited – especially in a time of pandemic. The real motivation here is not to help people but to remove the faces of poverty and homelessness, said Jim Green, a West Palm Beach lawyer and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.