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  • Front yard fridges offer homeless free food (FAIL)

    09/10/2024 6:09:44 AM PDT · by Twotone · 69 replies
    Oregon Catalyst ^ | September 8, 2024 | William MacKenzie
    When will Portland learn? There’s a movement afoot in Portland to provide free food to the homeless from front yard refrigerators. Willamette Week thinks it’s a great way “to Be a Better Neighbor”. I don’t. It’s a misguided feel-good effort at charity by naïve social justice warriors that perpetuates their presence while not resolving the situation on the ground. And of course the homeless services complex never shrinks because the client base never diminishes. A while ago I went to a free lunch for the homeless in an underground Portland parking garage. Tables spread out across the center of the...