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A Texas consultant who devised a controversial approach to addressing homelessness in San Antonio a decade ago was tapped by President Donald Trump this month to bring his strategy to the rest of the country.
Robert Marbut Jr., the founding president of San Antonios homeless shelter Haven for Hope, will lead the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates with 19 federal departments and agencies to address homelessness.
But aspects of Marbut's approach to addressing homelessness have garnered blowback from housing advocates. He calls feeding homeless people on the street enabling them, and once while working in Florida, he went undercover as a homeless person to study them.
Responding in a tweet to the news of his appointment, Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, called Marbuts guiding principles paternalistic, patronizing, filled with poverty blaming/shaming.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/06/donald-trumps-new-homeless-czar-robert-marbut-jr-has-deep-texas-roots/
magicarpet
(14,208 posts).... he wants homeless people to just go die in the gutter. Then the fire department can come by with high pressure hoses and wash the dead carcasses down into the sewers.
The homeless and hungry problem solved.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Does he really think that those people choose to be that way for free handouts? They are desperate and in need of whatever help they can get. How dare he suggest feeding them is enabling them!
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)compassion or .concern for their well being.? Here are stats on homeless veterans:
About 11% of the adult homeless population are veterans. Roughly 45% of all homeless veterans are African American or Hispanic, despite only accounting for 10.4% and 3.4% of the U.S. veteran population, respectively. Homeless veterans are younger on average than the total veteran population.
nchv.org index.php news media
Background & Statistics - National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
SamKnause
(13,114 posts)They don't want them to live.
I believe in their mindset the term would be useless eaters.