621: How Do You Deal with Homelessness? (26 of 30)
I recently shared a post about how homelessness is dealt with in a city by the city putting spikes where they most often congregate. I was reminded of how I would see that in my city growing up and how I knew it wasn't dealing with the bigger issue of why there is homelessness in the first place. I shared the post as a #backtoself sharing - where I was sharing how I can see the spikes as a solution to homelessness reveals how we don't really deal with the core problems in our own life - and asked the questions "where am I doing this too?" But the real point that is actually bringing it back to self is saying that a city that leaves spikes to push away homelessness is the same as when I am walking down a street and see a homeless person and want to look the other way, don't want to make eye contact, don't want to interact with them whatsoever. I become extremely uncomfortable, I want to avoid them altogether. Ignoring they are there, pretending it'...
