The Atlanta Objective with George Chidi

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When Poverty Tourists Legislate

When Poverty Tourists Legislate

Amid spiking violent crime, the Georgia State Senate wants to frog-march homeless people into concentration camps at police gunpoint.

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Mar 08, 2022
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Georgia State Sen. Kim Jackson with people experiencing homelessness, at a state capitol ceremony in October.

I can give you a whole list of people who are alive today because they got permanently supportive housing,” my state senator, Kim Jackson, told me this morning. “I can tell you the people who are dead today that didn’t.”

We were talking because a …

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