Many believe efforts to relocate homeless people to effect space for massive Super Bowl 50 festivities is a ‘further example of the inequity in the city’Rolf Stagg huddled near the city’s waterfront on a recent morning,rolled some loose tobacco inside a torn scrap of newspaper and watched with a mix of derision and curiosity as a massive football fan village rose before his eyes. “They chase us out like cattle,” the 62-year-old Stagg said, and as his hangouts disappeared under metal bandstands and banners heralding Super Bowl 50. “We’re not allowed to be here when the rich people reach around? I don’t believe in that.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com