because homeless people are not supposed to be home peachtree street because they are ninety percentafrican-american males in our facility we have undergone the battle of the century ethic two centuries now almost. for twenty years so this is the culmination of their efforts the power structure of the elites in atlanta to displace all the homeless people who are visible on peachtree street and do that by means of getting hold of that property which they have done. so no start of my talking about this because in two thousand and fifteen the mayor outright said that he wanted to shut down and that was his intention he vowed to shut down the shelter which again i mean i think for a lot of people with their words they have an outcry and say well how can you shut down of a service that's facilitating people who are always so what is the logic in the justification of this for. well it's not just cities doing the city it's been carrying the water for the development and the powerful downtown business community all along so the city is not actually doing the dirty deed and the mayor we belie

all of that impetus was we don't want those men read african-american men who are homeless on peachtree streetand we you know i've been on the board of the national coalition for the homeless for twenty eight years and we've always done criminalization reports cities that we rank meanest who have passed ordinances that all they do is criminalize the normal behavior of people who are homeless or poor and atlanta always right was in the top five top one or three i think for the last couple of years is that the report was done and we've watched and monitored all of those ordinances be passed so that we had a vagrant free zone proposed in the late eighty's a safe guard zone which excluded homeless people and poor people from that area in the city now with a settlement there's a task force for. so the task force for the homeless cannot relocate within that zone and there are other preclusion and that are hope based on racism classism gender bias the whole thing so we know all that and now that there's been this settlement to this so out as they say to avoid going to court i'm not sure all of those