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Public servant advises woman facing homelessness to 'use witchcraft' or 'manifest' home (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"There were a lot of links that were emailed to me about manifesting a house and using witchcraft … I think it was 17 links in total all about positive manifestations," she said.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I suspect this public servant is just a hapless idiot. It's obviously not the housing authority's policy to recommend witchcraft. This person probably had good intentions.

That doesn't make it "ok", nor make the system any less broken, it just explains what's happened.

As an aside, in Australia you can't evict a tenant if they have no where to go. There isn't a bailiff in Australia that would put this woman and her son on the street.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I wish America were that enpathetic. Here we actively scorn those sorts of people as "losers" who deserve it

[–] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

17 seems like overkill. If it worked, surely 1 would be enough.