Really? Can you HATE Homeless Memorial Day?

I found this article about the Federal recognition of Homeless Memorial Day and it annoyed me. As an Angry Republican, I see what he means on the service – but even a basic understanding of how a person can become and stay homeless without outside intervention would clue you in that the author is the […]

Wound Care for Homeless Patients

@giveyoursole, @hardlynormal, @hanes Basic Wound care is simple. Keep it clean and dry and don’t touch it until it heals. Great. But what if you don’t have access to showers and toilets or bandages, or someone to help you clean and bandage the wound? What if you are homeless and forced to spend all day […]

CA Governor Race and the Homeless

I have not heard how the people who would be the most prominent in our state would try to serve the most needy.

Im not the only one who cries

When I come to the office . As soon as I let her play with my phone: she calmed down.

Things I wish Would Happen to End Homelessness

#fb. These steps would solve the problem. If only I could snap my fingers and make it happen. Create affordable housing that a single parent of one child who earns minimum wage can afford to rent. Do this by increasing the amount of housing available – ie: step 2 Convert half of the empty downtown […]

Prop 13 – The Parts that Ruined California

#fb What Prop 13 is: At a high point in the housing boom with a housing shortage driving property values up – Prop 13 reassess property tax values from 3% of their current value in 1978 to 1% of their value from before the housing boom. This was great for the poor and elderly on […]

Homewalk pizza sale

At Mxxxxx in Burbank. Who knew? Pizza is like a drug here; there was a line at 11:30 am of IHSS County workers waiting for the pizza. I spent about $63 on pizza and soda, but the soda I can keep re-using for the next few weeks. I used the Domino’s 2 Medium pizza deal coupons, – […]

10 Steps to Ending Homelessness – by URM

In a perfect world #5 is my job description : Become a mentor to individuals and families who are out of experiencing homelessness. Most successful people can point back to one or more mentors who modeled positive attitudes and behaviors, believed in them, and encouraged them along the way. But the majority of men and […]

Put your foot down

Come to The Homewalk! I will be looking for @mwomack @pathpartners and @homewalk