“When you give money to the homeless, you help to keep them homeless.”
Reselling trinkets and items that were picked out of the garbage is “not an appropriate lifestyle.”
I think it is very interesting that one small amendment to a law to allow the selling of books on the sidewalk without a permit made such a big impact. I see homeless people selling books every day on my walk to school especially in Union Square.
“The Hunt: a hunt means for one who goes out here at nighttime or through the course of the day seeking books, materials, contraband, anything that he thinks he can get a buck from.”
What does a person have to go through to be homeless? To me, I cannot fully understand because going to parsons and having such an amazing family, I know that I could never be homeless. There is always someone that would take me in or give me work or do something to help me so I just don’t understand and it makes me wonder if they truly have no one.
Public characters are aware of what’s going on. The film was conflicting itself between the interviews of the people who are homeless and selling things off a table on the sidewalk and the people that think the tables are a disgrace and block people from walking etc.
In Paris, these people have become more and more integrated into society and are now basically the middle class.
In part 3, there was a man that was homeless for two years and he is now living on his brother’s couch. Most of these people are coming out of jail and many of them are not ashamed and are content with their lifestyle. I do not fully understand and I probably will never understand but it is a difficult life.
