Kansas City Public Libraries Help 'Survivalist' Homeless Brave Brutal Winter

A nitpick . . .

A person isn't REALLY a survivalist when they depend on MILLIONS in taxpayer & private funding in order to camp out most of the day. 

More importantly . . . 

CAN WE JUST ADMIT THE KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY MOSTLY SERVES AS A HOMELESS SHELTER NOWADAYS?!?!

It's too bad because an urban public study space for youngsters would be beneficial for the entire community and it SEEMS like it's getting harder for the library to fulfill that mission whilst addressing politics & poverty seem to dominate the agenda of this public resource.

Nevertheless . . . 

Here's a peek at public radio talking about our stubborn "unhoused" in a conversation that TOTALLY omits substance abuse which is typically the reason that more people don't take shelter in so many spaces that demand at least temporary sobriety for the safety of all their inhabitants . . . Check-it:

"When the sun comes up, they have to move. Police and park rangers will run them off and possibly take the extra clothes, blankets and sleeping bags if they stay put under the bridge. Normally they head for the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library, but that’s just one of the amenities they use.

"The library publishes what it calls a “Street Sheet” with dozens of places to get food, clothing, bedding, legal help, mental help and health care. Thompson and Gaddy are conversant with most of the organizations, know their schedules, their offerings and their quirks."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

As Kansas City gets deadly cold, these unhoused 'survivalists' prefer to sleep outside

Some Kansas Citians will sleep out in the bitter freezing wind tonight. They were out there last night, too. Finding a warm bed isn't necessarily the problem. They know how to survive in the worst of the Kansas City winter, and they don't like homeless shelters.