This is fun. I go out on a hack with friends when we go ride our horses together out in the open without jumping. I like that it applies kinda similarly in my mostly white community to the mostly black community asking for a ride with a new friend.

People get brought in to hr everyday over this word salad bullshit now a days. Fuck the oppression Olympics

At least OP wasn't acting ignorant.

You left off the entire last part of his comment "lmfao."

I came here to say please do not walk- there are better options. Every few days campus security posts about someone getting assaulted along Madison or monument. If you want to cycle - that might be safer but I would head towards the harbor and cut across fells point then head back up Broadway.

It's the euphemism treadmill. Personally, I can't stand "unhoused," and think it sounds worse than homeless. It sounds (to me) like dogs to be put in a kennel. Anyway, I'm sure this word will fall out of favor soon enough, a new one will be found, and people can feel "enlightened" and scold those who aren't on board with this big new important change in how we discuss problems. Progress.

Slugging is usually like a coordinated group that does it for work to a designated point though

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No it doesn't. Arguments undercut arguments, not feelings about buzzwords.

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There are seven vacant homes for every homeless person in Baltimore, so even if it's true the overwhelming majority should be condemned, it's still a viable part of the solution.

They charge an airport fee now when coming or going to the airport.

I have no idea. Was told so by someone I worked with awhile back.

Whatever. I’m not trying to win debate class. Just offering a different point of view for our friend here.

While you're at it, you can stop at Legends off Pennsylvania and get a chicken box, maybe even some percs lol

Pretty sure this is the same crew who shat the bed under the BMore_Healthy moniker.

The question is why post this? Why go to the trouble of posting an image they know is misleading, and crafting the post to draw attention to it? They had a decent story to tell... and yet they chose to undermine their credibility with a pointless lie.

It's a little thing and largely inconsequential. But most big things are made of lots of little things. And on social media, credibility is currency.

Can’t really speak to that. I just look at it from a linguistics perspective and to me it makes more sense to use the term unhoused. Most people still say homeless, so I think you’ll be fine if you want to keep using that terminology. No one is out here caring about words that much, except on the internet. The real world has bigger shit to worry about.

I hope this is true but idk. Anecdotally, I feel like I’ve seen an increase in homeless people in Mt Vernon recently- Right around Pratt library. There were always a few people by the bus stop but there are a lot more and the entire alley by My Sister’s Place is full of tents

The vast majority of those unoccupied homes should be condemned and are in no way a potential solution.

Yeah, that comment is super uninformed. “Not super difficult”… lmao

I was just wondering last night if there was some reason why the transportation infrastructure in this city is uniquely and embarrassingly terrible....

> so rehoming the homeless with federal support isn't super difficult if there's just a little will to do so

Going to offer a hard disagree with pretty much all of this statement. Homelessness has so many causes and one size fits many solutions are almost always impossible to conceive and implement.

Compound that with the labyrinthian nature of securing federal funds and, well, I'd say "super difficult" is a good way to describe it.

Because this is based on the Point In Time count, this doesn't mean much. They survey folks in city shelters and public places they already happen to know homeless folks gather. It's not a very accurate number.

As someone who works with homeless folks on a regular basis, I haven't heard that things are getting any better. There was some success moving some people into permanent housing during COVID once we fought to finally get the city to stop leaving homeless folks to die in overcrowded shelters where social distancing was impossible. A disproportionate number of COVID deaths in the city were from homeless folks who couldn't protect themselves. As I recall, as of July 2020 when we got them to empty the shelters, around half the COVID deaths were among the homeless.

It's just as likely these numbers are the result of the conditions on the nights of the survey or the mass deaths of the homeless during COVID as it is the result of city action.

Can you suggest alternate, and equally or more accurate ways to describe what he's saying?

Yep, you got it. I think fare is 4.60 for a day pass or $2 each way. But, to be honest, last time I was in there you could just walk through without paying lol.