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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by orange_joe on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:30PM (#34167951)
what's the problem with having a part of the library be intended for young people and students? That seems like a better use of the space than having the city turn the library into a daytime homeless shelter.
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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by Rufbdbskrufb473 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:59AM (#34171449)
I think the main reason isn't the shelter itself, but that being around a large number of fellow homeless people is dangerous because of the rampant mental health issues, drug abuse, and violent crime.

The problem is similar to what happened when low income housing (the "projects") concentrated the poor into economic ghettos.

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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by bilbo0s on Thursday December 29, 2022 @09:43AM (#34173052)
???

If they're "poor", don't they have to rent or buy low income housing, and so "concentrate into economic ghettos"?

There is no policy concentrating the poor with each other, any more than there is a policy that concentrates the rich with each other. The market makes available different products, and different economic market segments purchase different products. With a policy, or without a policy, the poor will live with the poor.

And form "economic ghettos".

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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by mythhouse on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:46PM (#34168862)
> That seems like a better use of the space than having the city turn the library into a daytime homeless shelter.

I prefer it being a homeless shelter, its cold as hell in chicago right now. It would be nice for them to have some some space there.

Whenever there is a cold wave we all wonder whats happening to the ppl left out there. It would be nice for them to have one more option. give everyone else peace of mind, lol.

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