30.00% - Sanctioned camps with services or designated shelter villages beat improvised camps with no coordination — you can address homelessness more humanely with a plan.
27.50% - Unsanctioned encampments expand when left unmanaged — that's the argument for moving faster on shelter, not for tolerating indefinite growth of improvised camps.
22.50% - Get people out of the elements first — no one should be sleeping outside in this climate. Shelter before everything else.
20.00% - Until there's enough shelter, basic sanitation in encampments — portable toilets, trash collection — is harm reduction; you can't address a crisis by making it dirtier.
Sanitation services at encampments are a partial measure and cannot substitute for shelter.
37.93% - Unsanctioned encampments expand when left unmanaged — that's the argument for moving faster on shelter, not for tolerating indefinite growth of improvised camps.
31.03% - Parking minimums require more parking than the market demands, raising construction costs and consuming land — the market should determine how much parking gets built.
31.03% - The constituencies that matter don’t want to help the poor.
50.00% - Sanitation services at encampments are a partial measure and cannot substitute for shelter.
50.00% - Encampment sanitation is necessary but cannot substitute for the shelter and services that actually end homelessness.
0.00% - Porta potties and a dumpster won’t solve the problems homeless encampments make.
50.00% - Occupy Wall Street