Astatine_209 t1_ja3olo0 wrote
Reply to comment by Bumblx in After City Bans Sleeping at Homeless Youth Centers, a Center Resists (Archived link below in Comments) by irish_fellow_nyc
Are there really no other overnight youth homeless shelters?
People do not want to live next to homeless shelters, and not without reason.
DryGumby t1_ja3yxxk wrote
Some place else, the nimby solution to all my problems.
Astatine_209 t1_ja43g82 wrote
I know, how dare people not want their children to walk past open drug use on their way to school. So evil of them.
snailsss t1_ja4h2zp wrote
The overwhelming majority of the unhoused don't do that, you're gross. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and are a job loss, accident, breakup away from potential homelessness.
shadyshadyshade t1_ja5uk5c wrote
You walk past homeless youth every day without even knowing it because they look just like you and I do. I volunteered at Ali Forney for seven years and I know what amazing, resilient and normal people the clients there were/are. Some need more mental health support than others but the vast majority just need a bed and some food and some time to plot their next steps in a city that is difficult to survive in without family support. Shame on you.
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CalmDownYaOleCoot t1_jae9k1d wrote
Youth shelters are in many ways different from the public shelters adults typically go to. The only NYC youth shelter I know of is Covenant House a few blocks from the PABT. Only stayed a couple months as a kid and still have PTSD from my time there. Would rather risk it on the streets or nap in drop in centers, parks, and the couches at the flagship Macy’s store.
If I couldn’t sleep at day shelters like I did then I have no idea how I would have survived. SO many predators in youth shelters…
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