priorities

this piece gives an excellent overview of the ongoing effort to eliminate the p'tree/pine shelter --- a whole lot of money, time, and resources has been spent on trying to get rid of the shelter rather than doing something about what causes it to be necessary in the first place ----

"We’ve demolished more public housing than any other city in the country and the [Atlanta] Housing Authority speaks with pride of that, which I say with tragic irony,” says Frank Alexander, a law professor at Emory University and director of its Project on Affordable Housing and Community Development. “We offer less housing at the lower end of the economic spectrum than most any other community."

plus we offer shit for mental health services, which accounts for most of the problem ---