Pushed out to Nowhere

By Jay Paulino/ Youth Poverty Skola reporter /POOR Magazine

There is a RV Community down the whole street near the back of the Stonestown mall. The Government plans on getting rid of at least 110 or more Rv’s when that’s peoples homes. While there are housless folks with tents and their belongings get thrown out with their homes, which would be tents.The amount of disrespect the city has for their people is so crazy to me. So this Rv community is “getting pushed out “SF State University. 

“It really is distressing news," said Margot Sevilla, 27, who works in construction as a painter. Sevilla lives with her grandma, two cousins and uncle in a single Rv. “They’re going to remove us and we don’t have anywhere to go,” also said Margot Sevilla.

As I am researching on houseless people with sweeps, It’s still happening as we speak. It’s one of the top 10 issues in California today and definitely has to be more recognised. The Government is sleeping on our Community. The fact that San Francisco is ramping up efforts to remove houseless folks in general is beyond me. There is all kinds of Violence in the city, “Where is the Police now that’s protecting and serving and not harming our people.” The Police now are sadly too busy kicking us poor folks off the street. I”m saying for myself--I, Jay Paulino--say this is wrong as hell as a young writer scholar. 

Resuming 10-1-2024: As we talked about houseless sweeping with RVs, There’s folks out there still getting swept, the two actions I was at were in San Francisco City Hall and a Harmless parking lot in East Oakland, California. I asked every Officer “Why do they keep kickin us poor folks out?” They replied with “ask Ivan.” Since when did the public community workers have a higher power with police. The attitude when they know it's illegal to kick us out in broad hell daylight. What do the Police have to say about that one? The first action was “Police hurting the Poverty poor folks” by kicking out families out of their own homes that are considered tents, RV’s and their own built homes when the Government knows from right and wrong. I just didn’t understand how difficult it is for police to protect and serve our community. There’s crime every single day where’s the Police then. With out of respect this is frustrating to watch when there is real harm out there, when the System is failing to serve and they get paid like that is beyond me.