New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is trying to clear the streets of homeless people. The mayor says he will not force anyone to stay in a shelter, but that cardboard houses made out of cardboard are 'inhumane' Adam Soboroff: He's just box checking and doesn't really feel it. And building housing for the poor won't alleviate homelessness - you're repeating a state talking point. This does require a robust social intervention,. Especially imean they don't really have the resources; this could be solved by federal intervention.
In this News Brief, we examine the convoluted, vague rhetorical labor involved in making purging unhoused populations with cops seem humane and anodyne.