@golvio.bsky.social: And that still goes for “addicts,” too. Like, how the hell else are you supposed to cope with being trapped in such a rotten life when you can’t afford therapy/your parents “don’t believe in therapy?”

57 percent of unhoused women report domestic violence as their immediate cause of homelessness. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an Oregon law could further limit their options. 19thnews.org/2024/06/ruli...

Ruling on homelessness raises the risks for domestic violence survivors, experts say19thnews.org 57 percent of unhoused women report domestic violence as their immediate cause of homelessness. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an Oregon law could further limit their options.

“Err berr berr berr why fon’t they just sleep at a friend’s house, then? 🤪🇺🇸” Because their abusive husbands made sure to completely isolate them from all possible support networks! That’s how abuse works!

It’s the exact same reason why homeless queer teenagers tossed out on the street by their sanctimonious blowhard über-Christian parents can’t just “sleep somewhere else.” There *is* nowhere else! They’re just kids who have no idea where to go!

This is basically torturing people for having horrible luck and finding themselves in all sorts of awful situations, whether that’s being sucked into an abusive marriage, born to abusive parents, hereditary late-onset schizophrenia or a manic episode causing them to lose their job, etc.

And that still goes for “addicts,” too. Like, how the hell else are you supposed to cope with being trapped in such a rotten life when you can’t afford therapy/your parents “don’t believe in therapy?”

It’s one of the worst rulings. I’m a trained DV specialist, mother if a long in recovery SA, now adult child and disabled myself and have been unhoused. This is a pipeline into the prison system, $ that’s what this is, I can remember when there were nationwide actions where ppl went & lived unhoused

If got tons of attention and really helped shed light on the problem, that was before the heroin epidemic. The lack of outrage today is frightening

The 19th will stay in this story. That’s a good thing. Hope people are writing as much about the youth issues. Someone suggested there would be a rise in communes. Umm. Grants Pass and Oregon as a whole has more and some of the longest existing communes/intentional living communities in the nation

And when you're kicked to the very bottom, reduced to nothing in society's eyes, all hope of climbing back up looks bleak and you look for any chance of relief from hopelessness, escape from it, no matter if its temporary, here come strangers openly judging and disgusted with you for doing so

In my experience there’s been an increase in awareness of how to behave humanely towards the unhoused. That doesn’t mean there’s not a sector of just awful. It’s been surprising for me to have had to return to the deep S and find that the dialogue has moved towards his might we help. I’m not sure

what is diving that. But poverty is a trap, and this bootstrap lie is just that. I’ve thought there should be something called poverty studies, bc we have so much more information. The mental stress, the health impacts, the trauma, brain changes. What we must have is universal basic income, and get

a real plan to use and transform all these empty building spaces. There’s no more option but to expand the Supreme Court imo, and really these criminals need to be impeached from the bench

I’m furious. Between this ruling and the environmental rollback. We’re in hurricane ground zero, bc my folks were so old and refused to evac , have ridden out every high Cat 🌀since Rita, a 67 inch flood and now staring down the barrel. FEMA bailed long ago. You are in your own and if not linked into

some mega church of right wing like Christian community, you won’t even know where the help is and if you do, have to fight being evangelized. It’s intolerant. I can say, hey I’m Muslim ( it’s my culture, if I’m non deist) and they go right on blabbering, non stop. FFS. Who does that?

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