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Originally Posted by biggus diggus
I agree, I lived downtown from 2006 - 2017 and have had my office downtown since 2013. Only within about the past year have I even made note of homeless people - I used to see so few that they were just part of the landscape but lately my walks to lunch pass by encampments or clusters of them.
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I think you office across the street from where I live. I'm in Metro 12.
It's not the homeless that are causing me alarm. It's the level of aggressiveness that's causing me alarm. We used to have a guy that "loved under our covered parking in the back. Every night he would bring a sleeping bag and some other assorted living supplies and camp out. He would keep an eye on the cars and acted like a good neighbor In the morning he would be gone. This was for about a year. It got to the point I knew his name, his story, I'd bring him cold water during the summer and bring him food. He got an apartment with the help of his mosque eventually and we went and got him most of the things one would need to sustain in an apartment and had the store I worked at at the time donate a few pieces of furniture to help him get on his feet.
This was indicative of the people I had met downtown who were homeless at the time. The other day I was walking home from the light rail and a guy with a captains hat and a handful of lighters comes up and insists that I know him. When I replied "no I don't think so" he calls me a liar which quickly escalated to him yelling at me that he is going to kill me.
In 10 years I had never experienced that level of hostility and aggressiveness from a homeless guy. But this is not the first time within the last 6 months that I have. Something's changing with services around downtown and whatever it is, it's not for the better.
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