Posted on August 18, 2015 by Jillian Jorgensen in New York Observer New York Observer, By Jillian Jorgensen Advocates took to the City Hall steps today to demand action to help the homeless—and bashing the Sergeants Benevolent Association and the media outlets for vilifying people on the street. The rally comes after weeks of coverage of homeless people on the street—particularly in the New York Post, which put a homeless man urinating in the street on the cover of its newspaper—and after the SBA urged New York City cops to upload photos of homeless people on city streets to a Flickr account that has since been taken down by the photo-sharing site. “To the New York Post and the SBA: homeless people are not the problem,” said James Addison of Life Experience and Faith Sharing Associates. “The problem is not enough decent affordable housing. That’s what we need.”
