r/Eugene • u/drrevo74 • 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/TelepathicTiles Sep 24 '24

Maybe they should ban McDonald’s then? /s

Or I dunno. Maybe just a blanket ban on throwing trash on the ground that applies to everyone 🤯

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u/Musiclover4200 Sep 25 '24

Or I dunno. Maybe just a blanket ban on throwing trash on the ground that applies to everyone 🤯

The point is it's not just homeless people who litter, we clearly need better enforcement of littering fines as well as calling people out when they litter. The park I'm talking about would resemble a homeless camp if not for the considerate people cleaning up after others and it has pretty much 0 homeless presence.

Also I agree with the posts that giving out food from places like churches makes the most sense but using parks once a week really shouldn't be such a problem. It shows just how extreme the housing/homeless issues have gotten.

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u/TelepathicTiles Sep 25 '24

100%. I was agreeing with you. I was literally cleaning up a huge pile of trash one time on 8th and Monroe and some douchebag in a truck drove by and threw a cup at me and told me to get a job and called me a bum. The ironic thing is that I was on my home from a ten hour shift. I just happened to already have a bunch stuff in the back of my truck that was going to the dump and thought I’d help out a little. I guess that’s only loosely related to what we are talking about here though. It’s just that there are so many straight up morons in this town.

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u/Musiclover4200 Sep 25 '24

Yeah a significant chunk of trash around town is from people who toss stuff out their windows or just can't be bothered to find a trashcan when walking around.

The homeless issue has obviously gotten a lot worse over the years but it feels like this sub has such a hate boner for them that people won't admit that a lot of the litter is from inconsiderate assholes which includes plenty of non homeless people.

Ultimately littering is a symptom of other issues and not something unique to the homeless, and it won't improve until we improve the housing situation & have better enforcement around littering.