(above) At the Hutt Street Centre, homeless people lay trails of towels across the floor to protect their feet from tinea and other diseases. "The Surfer" warned one patron to avoid the middle cubicle because there was "a piece of shit on the floor". Management won't disinfect the cubicles regularly, or even leave appropriate cleaning equipment for others to use.
(above) Coloured towels are used at the Ian Hitch-Cox shower scene to disguise how dirty they actually are. After being dragged across the floor the towels are crammed into an overloaded machine and washed with cold water. They may even smell of body odour after being washed.
Hutt Street Centre: Tinea Central
Hutt Street Homeless Centre managed by Ian Cox has put tinea warning notices in their shower rooms. The dirty showers haven't been cleaned properly for years. When you're living outside, the last thing you need is an infectious skin disease.
(above) Hutt Street Manager Ian Cox won't allow the showers for homeless people to be cleaned. The government and donation money is grabbed by the Hutt Street Centre social workers and bureaucrats instead of paying for a basic service of providing clean showers for people who sleep in the Parklands.
(above) Wouldn't it be useful to actually clean the shower floors? Employees could be re-directed from intrusive and disrespectful "interviews" of homeless people to cleaning the shower cubicles. Win-win.
(above) Welfare housing tenants aren't allowed to have dirty showers, but Hutt Street Centre is above the rules with its timed showers and conscious decision to degrade its clients in fungus laden cubicles. Even the Day Centre, which includes the showers, is closed most afternoons while the bureaucrats still sit at their desk collecting wages. If not legal corruption, then this situation is a moral corruption.
(above) Tinea growth areas respond well to water and disinfectants then the skin disease wouldn't be spread from homeless shower user to another homeless shower user.
(above) Straight from the dirty showers to the dining room where guests are forced to fill the tables, shoulder to shoulder. Management don't like people sitting too far apart from each other.
(above) Hutt Street Centre Manager Ian Cox and the other salaried employees should begin showering at their place of work. And dry themselves with those smelling towels.
(above) The sign advises, "Clean the shower, and floor after use." With what? That dirty mop that spreads disease?
(above) Hutt Street employees should ask themselves why they maintain an English Work House attitude to the shower rooms.