Poverty pushes people into communities without the robust infrastructure that can make such a tremendous difference in quality of life. We do far too little to support the most vulnerable and fail decade after decade to take meaningful action to end the suffering being poor can cause.
“As such, it’s all too clear that the encampments, in whatever form they take, are becoming semi-official institutions of social welfare and poverty management — depoliticized components of the growing shadow state in which private entities are assuming responsibilities once defined as public.”