Breakfast brigade trying to resume feeding homeless at Washington Jefferson Street Park. News

https://kval.com/news/local/breakfast-brigade-volunteers-eugene-city-council-permit-feeding

Breakfast Brigade, a homeless outreach group, is asking the City council tonight to restore its special use permit which allowed them to serve meals at Washington Jefferson Park four days a week. What say you?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

They care more about hurting the community than they do about helping it

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u/ziggypop23 Sep 24 '24

What are you doing to help the community? These people are FEEDING those who need food. They care about the community. You?

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u/terrencethetomato Sep 24 '24

Food needs to be given near shelter. Shelter needs to be built near opportunity for betterment such as jobs, gyms, and mental health centers.

Giving food in the middle of the city or in our parks just causes the homeless population to congregate where there is no designated shelter or opportunity which leads to property crime and unsanitary conditions for everyone.

This is a great example of good intentions with bad execution. This is the reason why our parks are littered with needles, shit and trash and it is why children don't play at the parks for half the year.

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u/666truemetal666 Sep 24 '24

But these people don't have the funds to provide shelter, they are doing what they can time meet UNMET needs!!! Of course it would be better to have shelter with food distribution, but the movement would rather piss away all our tax dollars on literally anything besides ending homelessness