{"id":73,"date":"2020-05-11T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T23:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/?p=73"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:49:17","slug":"encampment-destruction-is-not-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/2020\/05\/11\/encampment-destruction-is-not-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Encampment Destruction is Not a Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Moses states, forcing the individuals in the encampments to move does not solve the underlying problem of homelessness or addiction. Fortunately, the city has recently shifted toward a more harm-reduction-centered approach, where city officials and police tried to place those remaining in encampments into shelters, housing programs, or treatment centers (Wolfram). See <a href=\"https:\/\/pathwaystohousingpa.org\/\">https:\/\/pathwaystohousingpa.org\/<\/a> to learn more about providing housing to those suffering from addiction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-7.36.46-PM-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-7.36.46-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-7.36.46-PM-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-7.36.46-PM-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-7.36.46-PM.png 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image: &#8220;Outreach workers move from tent to tent, helping Emerald Street residents gather their possessions&#8221; (Emma Lee,<a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/amid-bitter-cold-weather-philly-to-close-last-kensington-encampment\"> WHYY<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Moses states, forcing the individuals in the encampments to move does not solve the underlying problem of homelessness or addiction. Fortunately, the city has recently shifted toward a more harm-reduction-centered approach, where city officials and police tried to place those remaining in encampments into shelters, housing programs, or treatment centers (Wolfram). See https:\/\/pathwaystohousingpa.org\/ to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}