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/TheMaskedTerror9 Sep 24 '24

This type of organization can't afford to own or rent property so public space is the only space available. How does a person eating a burrito make the park hard to use?

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u/Moist-Intention844 Sep 24 '24

By lottering littering and disrespecting others public spaces with entitlement and drug use

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u/666truemetal666 Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24

You think they are going to make better choices if they are starving more?

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Yes, actually. The thing they call rock bottom is where a lot of people make changes in their lifestyle. I've talked with homeless people with addictions who were desperate for change. I told them I could get them into a treatment center in Salem or Portland the next day (after hours I spent on the phone with those facilities) so 3 hots and a cot, and help with resources and help with getting clean. "Well, not today I guess. Not right now. I guess I'm doing ok, really, it's not so bad, I've been living on the street for years now. I'm not good at keeping rules." Versions of that. But if things were really bad on the street, they might be more motivated to make better choices. So, yeah.

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u/666truemetal666 Sep 26 '24

Your not supposed to facilitate someone's rock bottom, that is cruelty. You will never convince me that feeding a human is immoral and I am sorry for your soul that you feel this way