[Noisebridge-discuss] [drama] Frantisek is going to stop living at Noisebridge starting tonight.

[hep]

On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
>
> Personally, I think it's pretty fucked up that he doesn't have other
> options; part of the general Noisebridge goal is to provide an
> alternative to the rest of the world for people in our community.
> Frantisek is part of our community and has been for quite a while. I
> wonder what will happen? Will someone step up and help him as he has
> helped the Noisebridge community? Will we change some things at
> Noisebridge to deal with a specific issue in our community that people
> care about? Or will we turn our backs and tell him to get fucked?

>
> With that said, we have long since agreed not to live in the space  
> but I
> will personally not ask Frantisek, a member of our community, to sleep
> on the streets.
>
> I understand the principles at play and I can't fucking live with  
> myself
> if I'm pushing him into the winter rain. I really dislike your  
> appeal to
> economics as a reason for your lack of compassion. If you really care
> about Noisebridge and money issues, why don't you kick in some more  
> money?


people in san francisco have more options for emergency or shortterm  
housing than almost any other city in the us. glide offers emergency  
housing placement services every day of the week (glide.org), there  
are more SROs per capita than in any other city on the western  
seaboard, often running anywhere from 80-150$ for a week's stay. some  
places offer discounts if you are disadvantaged, and you can always  
apply for HUD which will help place you. there are a variety of  
emergency housing solutions, one of which is of course THC (tenderloin  
housing clinics, which offer both longterm housing placement and short  
term emergency shelter placement). it is also trivially easy to sign  
up for care not cash and get shelter vouchers.

it is pretty disingenuous to claim classism in this single case, when  
there are thousands of people sleeping on the streets of sf, often  
right outside the space. or is it that it's only sad if someone is  
homeless if they know how to use computers? unless people are down  
with opening up the space as a night shelter, in which case i know  
hundreds of people that i work with daily at glide who would be quite  
overjoyed with another housing alternative in sf, and  i would be  
happy to start the process of passing out keys among the disadvantaged  
in san francisco. otherwise  you were just using classism as a ploy in  
this single case and you honestly don't actually care about other  
homeless people in sf.

pretending that the only solution a person who is housing  
disadvantaged in sf has is to sleep at noisebridge is disingenuous at  
best, and at worst outright malicious and insulting to the plight of  
the truly disadvantaged.

-hep
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