People have a right to choose what feels safest for them. Moreover, they have a right to be safe: a congregate setting, being placed in a shelter-hotel alone with a stranger isn't safe. Declare a moratorium on #encampment evictions.
Shelter-hotels should also not be allowed to service restrict residents and turn them out on to the street. If the goal is indeed to bring people into "safe, indoor spaces" as the City claims, then keep them indoors. Provide what folks need to feel and be safe once they're there.
The criminal justice system has more of a process with people than homelessness services that are unaccountable for when they turn people outside, and even restrict them for a week, a year — sometimes "for life," meaning no end date.
Again, even in the criminal justice system, "life" is a finite time frame of 25 years. Why do we not have a process or accountability with homelessness services who restrict people without consequence indefinitely? Restrictions can kill people.
Just again to speak to this notion of "safe, indoor space" — this is a piece that often goes under the radar: that individual providers in homelessness services can enact restrictions that disallow people from coming indoors, sometimes indefinitely. That is never safe.
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