Mail services for the homeless growing during the pandemic
Service tripled at 1 organization
By: Bo Evans
and last updated 2021-01-08 16:34:38-05
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. â âA normal day? We donât never have a normal day. Itâs always like, woah!â said postwoman Zenaida Santigo.
That s not typically how you would expect someone who delivers mail to describe their day, but Santigo isnât your neighborhood postwoman and she doesn t work at a normal post office.
âThey be cursing us out, we didnât get our mail. Woah! â said Santigo.
Santigo makes sure her community s homeless people get their mail. Sometimes they re frustrated or stressed, but don t get it confused, she cares about her clients a lot.
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Police and downtown advocates at the meeting hailed the measure as a way to address problems encountered by residents, tourists and businesses. This ordinance is going to be a great tool for us, Deputy Police Chief Rick Morris told the commissioners. It doesn’t take our compassion away.. It gives us opportunity to enforce laws but more importantly it gives us tools to help people.
Civil libertarians were quick to reject the provisions as unconstitutional attempts to criminalize behavior rather than address causes – and as mean-spirited – especially in a time of pandemic. The real motivation here is not to help people but to remove the faces of poverty and homelessness, said Jim Green, a West Palm Beach lawyer and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.