It’s absolutely wrong and betrays the fact that they are performative dickheads who don’t actually understand what they’re standing up for.
the building’s owned by the salvation army, but the article interviews everyone except them. so i just thought i’d mention that the salvation army are a militant christian hate group who are solidly anti-queer, anti-trans, and lobby for things like conversion therapy.
She quite gently calls them out for the fact that they’re doing this for themselves and not to actually help homeless people.
One of the great tragedies of homelessness as a political issue in Ireland is how exploitative it is.
Homelessness is not the same thing as rough sleeping. Rough sleeping is one of the most dangerous activities you can undertake in a western country when you factor in the risks of crime and the almost univeral presence of underlying mental health and substance abuse issues.
Helping *rough sleepers* (who may not even be homeless, albeit one would presume most are) is a medical issue more than anything else.
The grim irony of this particular building is that it was once the Dublin Seaman’s Institute (the Protestant one, the Catholic one was on John Rogerson’s Quay) and was designed to help a vulnerable cohort of people.
Hostels are not much help for rough sleepers unless they can provide a safe environment. Sadly, the nature of the problems facing rough sleepers means that’s often impossible.
Does anybody really believe the people in this building are trained therapists? That they can deal with alcohol addiction? Drug addiction? Mental health problems?
It’s performative rubbish and helps nobody but themselves.
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It’s absolutely wrong and betrays the fact that they are performative dickheads who don’t actually understand what they’re standing up for.
the building’s owned by the salvation army, but the article interviews everyone except them. so i just thought i’d mention that the salvation army are a militant christian hate group who are solidly anti-queer, anti-trans, and lobby for things like conversion therapy.
oh and they’re criminally negligent landlords, so i absolutely believe the rwu when they say the salvation army’s made no contact with them and made no actual attempts to renovate the place to make it habitable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army#Rogue_landlord_allegations
She quite gently calls them out for the fact that they’re doing this for themselves and not to actually help homeless people.
One of the great tragedies of homelessness as a political issue in Ireland is how exploitative it is.
Homelessness is not the same thing as rough sleeping. Rough sleeping is one of the most dangerous activities you can undertake in a western country when you factor in the risks of crime and the almost univeral presence of underlying mental health and substance abuse issues.
Helping *rough sleepers* (who may not even be homeless, albeit one would presume most are) is a medical issue more than anything else.
The grim irony of this particular building is that it was once the Dublin Seaman’s Institute (the Protestant one, the Catholic one was on John Rogerson’s Quay) and was designed to help a vulnerable cohort of people.
Hostels are not much help for rough sleepers unless they can provide a safe environment. Sadly, the nature of the problems facing rough sleepers means that’s often impossible.
Does anybody really believe the people in this building are trained therapists? That they can deal with alcohol addiction? Drug addiction? Mental health problems?
It’s performative rubbish and helps nobody but themselves.