1 day after the NYpost makes homeless hoarder into cover story, De Blasio swoops down on her

[Liberal_in_LA]

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Well, it was a dark and tumultuous couple of hours, but the Post GETS RESULTS. After breaking the Story of the Homeless Woman with the Shopping Carts wide open, the de Blasio administration swung into action. Presumably determined to avoid the publicity nightmares of last summer, when the Post's drumbeat of homeless reportage became an unending distraction for the mayor, de Blasio dispatched police and Sanitation workers to seize the woman's property and throw it away.

The NY Post is solving our city's homeless crisis, one humiliating front page at a time.

"[The Mayor] agreed that we should do it," said de Blasio spokesperson Karen Hinton, who told the Post that the woman, Sonia Gonzalez, refused to be taken to a shelter. "Outreach teams have been working to build trust with this client and help bring her to shelter for years. She has been known to the city since 2009 and has for several years refused to engage with the outreach team, and she will tell them to leave her alone."

See, you can tell government officials to leave you alone as much as you want, but don't even think about pulling that shit on a NY Post reporter. They'll come for you and your dignity in the night.

Yesterday, Gonzalez tried to stop workers from throwing away her belongings, but Hinton said that she was ­only permitted to keep items with a "medical, life-sustaining value."

In the end, she was left alone with just a duffel bag. Hopefully the Post finds that satisfactory! Maybe de Blasio should ask Col Allen if he needs anything else while he's up?

Asked why the de Blasio administration seemed to react so swiftly to one newspaper's article about one homeless person, Hinton explained, via email, "When the New York Post put her on the front page, it was clear she would be harassed by the Post for days on in, given the recent experience with the homeless man last year. It was in everyone's interest to remove her belongings, including Sonia Gonzalez. Our efforts are first and foremost about ensuring street homeless do not hurt themselves or others."

http://gothamist.com/2016/03/10/punching_down_feels_so_good.php





A few days later, she starts to rebuild her hoard

[LittleBlue]

1. Can someone find housing or mental health care for her?

That just looks sad and depressing.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. She refuses help

[Kalidurga]

3. I have noticed an extreme lack of housing for the lady.

Now granted this isn't as easy as give her housing. She will very likely need daily help because of her issues. It's still a far better solution than having her rebuild her 20 cart hoard which she will do within weeks. Oh and that thing where she is homeless it seems odd that the response is to throw her stuff away because obviously that is a far more important issue than getting her housing.

[Nye Bevan]

4. She could go into a shelter tonight if she chose to do so (nt)

[Kalidurga]

5. I said housing.

There is a difference, perhaps you aren't aware of that.

[Downwinder]

6. She would need a warehouse.

She is not going to stop hording. That could be behind her refusal of a shelter.

[Kalidurga]

7. Yes, I said she will need daily help.

There are very likely a whole lot of issues in play and I am not an expert in that field, but I can see when someone might be in need of such expertise.

[Blue_Tires]

8. ???

How the hell does somebody pull 20 loaded shopping carts anywhere??

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. She moved them one at a time

[rgbecker]

10. I guess the whole personal property thing is just for some Americans, but not all?