...and into homes, right?

...right?

As a kid, the Olympics was a fun thing to look forward to. Now whenever I see my city/country applying for anything similar, I'm up in arms

Ah yes, the Olympics season, the time when we can trample human rights the most and hurt our most vulnerable.

The ancient curse proclaiming that the Olympics must suck or the host country will descend into war continues.

Ah yes, the ol’ “Just push them somewhere else” tactic

Out of sight, out of mind. Am I right?!

Doesn't this happen every Olympics?

Ah yes, the glorious Olympics tradition continues of host countries proudly jerking themselves off while spending insane amounts of money.

"Look at us while we jerk our selves off. Ignore the fact that we are completely making life harder for marginalized communities to be able to build these one time use stadiums and lodgings that may or may not be used to house people."

I'm really at a loss for what good the Olympics bring to humanity. Really just seems to fuck over thousands of people every 4 years.

They did this in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In spite of the government’s denial of any connection to the Olympics, which Paris will host in the summer of 2024, some non-governmental organizations and elected officials believe the Games are part of the reason why this relocation plan has been recently activated.

He now has a full-time job in Paris but, even after so many years in the city, he has not been able to find permanent accommodation, largely due to extremely high rental costs in the capital and very limited availability of more affordable social housing.

Ahead of next year’s Olympic Games, hotels in Paris have started canceling their emergency housing contracts with the government to make space for the expected influx of tourists, according to Paul Alauzy from Medecins Du Monde, an NGO that works with homeless migrants.

In a televised interview Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron insisted France was doing its part to help the migrants that arrive on Europe’s shores, spending, among other things, around 2 billion euros each year on emergency accommodation for homeless people.

“The approach of major sporting events – firstly, to a lesser extent, the Rugby World Cup in 2023, and then the Olympic Games in 2024 – means that we have to think ahead and anticipate the situation, thanks to a policy of de-cluttering,” he said.

Manzi, of Utopia 56, thinks the relocation effort could be a good idea in principle, but says the problem is that the regional shelters will only house people for three weeks, according to the cities tasked with hosting them, and what happens after that remains uncertain.

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That's the way, really great. Some day we will be judged by our posterity of how we treated the weak and poor .

More manpower for the protests

I wonder where are they going to find a rug big enough to swipe them under.

French govt taking notes from the shoe mistress

This isn’t as disastrous as it sounds, even if it still sucks. France has social services capable of handling this, but the problem is that it dumps these folks on smaller towns where they probably have lost whatever meager social networks and support they might have built in Paris, and will probably face little welcome where they end up.

They do this stuff in the US to punt the homeless out of wherever, send them wherever, and where they land has no social services for them when they get there. Then that municipality gets tired of it and evicts them to the next place.

Finally! They are so unsightly.

Thankfully this sort of thing never come to a boil in France.