The "Courtyard" is a crime

I spent two nights in the so-called open air shelter. The shelter provides mylar blankes and little more. There are minimal resources at the Courtyard. I personally feel the mylar blankets are too small to cover someone and are environmentally unsound. The system refuses to provide dignity to the people it serves. Workers are polite, but they have no real resources for assisting people. There is pressure to push people into mental health systems even though they do not need them. The idea that homeless people are mentally ill is a common propaganda designed to reassure the public that homelessness is justified. My charity of choice was Habitat for Humanity since they built houses, but thee shelters are an affront to civilization. I urge elected officials to spend a week in them to familiarize themselves with the conditions. Ultimately, I believe they would defend these efforts and try a new approach. The homeless themselves are free to organize and block roads that provide the ingress and egress to Las Vegas. I've discussed this before. Because the homeless have something, they may never know what they might have had. It is possible they will never risk anything to obtain the dignity they deserve. It is not up to me to drive this bus. My hope was to reconnect with my family who I was supposed to meet in Las Vegas.