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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • I used to live across the street from an organization that handed out food every Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday morning we would wake up to trash everywhere. The street and sidewalk in front of our house would be covered in styrofoam boxes, bags, utensils, napkins, and food scraps. Roaches and rats had their own free meals every Wednesday night.

    Most people were there to get food. Some people were there to get food and sell drugs, and it pretty much ended up as an open-air drug market buffet.

    It’s easy to sit back in a clean house in a clean neighborhood and yell across the fence that they should feed the homeless wherever they want. It’s another thing entirely to have to live and work next to these events.

    The city has clearly told these guys you can hand out food in designated areas, and they are not doing so. It’s a publicity stunt as much as it is a feeding program.