A sweep, an arrest, a war zone of gentrification and a hostile chair in Midtown
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A Sweep After getting “good press” from a television channel, and how their focus was on outreach, Sparks Police carried out a sweep of a big encampment at Gateway Park this week. A spokesman backtracked from that television interview, saying he was misunderstood, and that the “cleanup” was planned all along. Most people who had been living and sleeping there just moved to a nearby location in Reno. Police and city officials patted themselves on the back for placing a few people into transitional housing or recovery programs. Why couldn’t they do that and help people clean up their areas, without uprooting and displacing an entire community of people lacking the means to afford stable shelter during an ongoing pandemic?
A sweep, an arrest, a war zone of gentrification and a hostile chair in Midtown
A sweep, an arrest, a war zone of…
A sweep, an arrest, a war zone of gentrification and a hostile chair in Midtown
A Sweep After getting “good press” from a television channel, and how their focus was on outreach, Sparks Police carried out a sweep of a big encampment at Gateway Park this week. A spokesman backtracked from that television interview, saying he was misunderstood, and that the “cleanup” was planned all along. Most people who had been living and sleeping there just moved to a nearby location in Reno. Police and city officials patted themselves on the back for placing a few people into transitional housing or recovery programs. Why couldn’t they do that and help people clean up their areas, without uprooting and displacing an entire community of people lacking the means to afford stable shelter during an ongoing pandemic?