• JayDee
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    4 days ago

    What’s the point of these laws exactly? What do they prevent from happening? What is their key purpose that benefits the community inhabitants?

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      The ones that cost money or have additional barriers are purely malicious and attempt to make the city a worse place for homeless people to live, but the ones that are a simple vetting process are beneficial in that only professionals handle distributing food so as to prevent mass food poisoning events or the spread of bacteria and disease.