More than 50 people stood outside the Enoch Pratt Library’s Southeast Anchor branch on a recent spring morning in Baltimore. Parents with small children, teenagers, and senior citizens clustered outside the door and waited to hear their ticket numbers called.
They weren’t there for books—at least, not at that moment. They came to shop for groceries.
Connected to the library, the brightly painted market space is small but doesn’t feel cramped. Massive windows drench it in sunshine. In a previous life, it was a café. Now, shelves, tables, counters, and a refrigerator are spread out across the room, holding a mix of produce and shelf-stable goods.
Yeah, that sounds shitty, but what the article doesn’t mention, despite being literally in the first paragraph of the press release that was linked, is that the real problem wasn’t the zoning law violation, but the fact that the police department had received multiple calls for various crimes being committed there, including theft, harassment, drug overdose, and sexual assault. It also mentions various fire code violations involving the electrical supply, people cooking in non-ventilated rooms, etc.
It appears that the use of zoning laws violation to put an end to it was just a convenient excuse, but the author “forgot” to mention that in order to paint the city government in a bad light.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/colorado/news/rock-church-lawsuit-colorado-free-exercise-religion-burdened-castle-rock-homeless/
Here’s another one. There are cases of places banning charity all over the place. Hell, you can’t give out bottles of water to people stuck in line outside in Georgia if they happen to be voting. They cut social programs and claim churches/charities will pick up the slack, and then attack said churches/charities.
My point is here that conservatives will simply attack anything they feel is in their way. They simply want control. They want homeless people to be homeless because “they deserve to be homeless”. They have absolutely no problem attacking charitable efforts, even if it has no impact on them whatsoever. They want to maintain the social hierarchy they feel should be in place.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Colorado is a firmly blue state these days. Doesn’t mean the town can’t have a Republican mayor (I’m sure some still do), but unfortunately the city website doesn’t mention his party affiliation.
Douglas County is a Republican area in Colorado. In between the very red area of Colorado Springs and blue Denver. These are conservative policies.
Is your contention that conservatives aren’t doing these things? They literally voted down the bill that cut child poverty in half. What the hell are we arguing about here?