It’s no secret anymore that there are some things going wrong in Hungary recently. Now, from 1st of December homelessness is crime fined with tremendous amounts of money or prison if people cannot pay. If you sign the petition on the following link or not… please take a few minutes to read the following to see what’s going on there.
http://avarosmindenkie.blog.hu/2011/11/06/say_no_to_the_imprisonment_of_homeless_people_in_hungary
I wrote my masterthesis on Józsefváros, the 8th district in Budapest, where now searching garbage for usefull things is also illegal. Józsefváros is partly a slum area where the poorest of the poor live in extremely bad conditions. Now, this already stigmatised and disadvantaged groups are even more excluded from a city which obviously focuses on a development where they do not have a place anymore.
so the calculation is easy:
no homeless people on the street + tidy streets = investment, attracting capital, making the city more compatitive.
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