Comments on: Tiggeriffic Decrepit http://runawayfuture.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2006/02/22/tiggeriffic-decrepit/ The Future Is A Scary Place To Live In Thu, 05 May 2011 18:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: forbes http://runawayfuture.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2006/02/22/tiggeriffic-decrepit/comment-page-1/#comment-92 forbes Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:07:56 +0000 http://runawayfuture.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2006/02/22/tiggeriffic-decrepit/#comment-92 The point I was trying to get at was that it's easier to ignore or to even drop some spare change then it is to actually deal with the underlying problems that cause poverty and homelessness. I think it goes without saying that any current work to date hasn't been successful in fixing this problem on Canadian streets, so perhaps something needs to be done to force the issue. I guess I was speaking metaphorically about the overalls, but the connation remains the same, if you can force the issue, make it impossible for those in the power to avoid it, then they will have to deal with it. An 'Africville response' is obviously not a resolution, but neither is the status quo. The point I was trying to get at was that it’s easier to ignore or to even drop some spare change then it is to actually deal with the underlying problems that cause poverty and homelessness. I think it goes without saying that any current work to date hasn’t been successful in fixing this problem on Canadian streets, so perhaps something needs to be done to force the issue. I guess I was speaking metaphorically about the overalls, but the connation remains the same, if you can force the issue, make it impossible for those in the power to avoid it, then they will have to deal with it.
An ‘Africville response’ is obviously not a resolution, but neither is the status quo.

]]> By: Jean-Paul http://runawayfuture.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2006/02/22/tiggeriffic-decrepit/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Jean-Paul Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:15:35 +0000 http://runawayfuture.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2006/02/22/tiggeriffic-decrepit/#comment-91 The owner of the buildings next to the Holiday Inn on Robie St. used the "garish colours" tactic a few years back when he wanted to build a highrise or somesuch there. Those houses are long gone. Homeless people probably don't want to draw undue attention to themselves, mainly because if they do then we'll ignore them for sure. What is the alternative? Make the city "clean them up"? Right, that would look good. Didn't they do something similar with Africville? "Ok, you guys have to leave now." The owner of the buildings next to the Holiday Inn on Robie St. used the “garish colours” tactic a few years back when he wanted to build a highrise or somesuch there. Those houses are long gone.

Homeless people probably don’t want to draw undue attention to themselves, mainly because if they do then we’ll ignore them for sure. What is the alternative? Make the city “clean them up”? Right, that would look good. Didn’t they do something similar with Africville? “Ok, you guys have to leave now.”

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