r/Eugene Sep 24 '24

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/Fantastic_Gene1023 Sep 24 '24

I’ve seen some of the homeless people who get burritos from them litter the garbage and then just hang out at the park all day and leave a mess. Seems like a idea with good intentions but maybe the park isn’t the place to do it since it makes the park hard to use and messy

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u/ahughman Sep 25 '24

The casually said totally aesthetic excuse to eliminate the last place where people can eat to survive is so typical eugenian nimby. This isnt a good reason to not provide desperate people with food, or any necessity.

"Its messy" is not the place where the conversation begins. Our neighbors cant afford to eat, and the city has just used complaints like this to remove this essential service.

This kind of opinion isnt relevent when people are out of options.

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u/bobsyruncle Sep 25 '24

It’s not the last place they can eat though, The Dining Room is open for lunch 4 days/week & there’s no trash heap when they’re done serving.

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u/ahughman Sep 25 '24

Its the most reliable place for two hot meals every day. 1 meal 4 out of 7 days isnt enough to feed the growing number of people currently in eugene. Nor is that enough for anyone to live comfortably. According to people there, bb is their most reliable source of food.

Garbage can be fixed without witholding needed food from people.

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u/bobsyruncle Sep 26 '24

Honestly I drive past the park daily & I don’t see piles of trash lately so it’s not really a concern for me, but BB is only there 1 morning per week right? So that’s one breakfast in the park & 5 lunches at the dining room, that seems like a reasonable effort, but I disagree that we need to take full responsibility for all meals for anyone who shows up in Eugene forever.