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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Starbucks policy is really designed for homeless people and we have to be realistic, it's become a problem. I stopped going to the library a long time ago because homeless people were constantly making them uncomfortable places. Why libraries should become refuges for the homeless is beyond me. Typical urban progressive mindset, I suppose. One can't fault Starbucks for tackling this problem. [/quote]

Libraries are some of the last indoor public spaces where they are allowed.  That's all.  It's not an urban progressive mindset.  It's that there is no legal reason to discriminate against members of the public who are non-disruptive.  My library has problems with the building exterior but not interior.[/quote]

DC has plenty of day services for the homeless: https://dhs.dc.gov/page/day-services-centers

I think it’s entirely reasonable for a library to preserve what it actually is - a place to access media - and not turn into a homeless shelter. [/quote]

A homeless person sitting there reading is no different than you sitting there reading. They have every right to be there.[/quote]

If they bring bedbugs and make people ill from the stink, they are indeed very different from me. [/quote]

So don't go. I'd much rather see them there than you.[/quote]

— says a library fat cat paid six-figures to sit on her ass in an office, blow money on paid conferences (read vacations), and retire with a pension[/quote]

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