Calworks HCFP

Homeless CalWORKS families project information

Case scenario training

Every two months the LA County DPSS Homeless workers from CalWORKS and GAIN gather at the Arcadia Arboretum to discuss policy, programs and to meet face to face with the program directors. In this way the Homeless Services are applied uniformly across the county.

Abortion as a Basic Right for Homeless Women

Here is where I remind you that this is MY PERSONAL VIEW, and that you are oh, so welcome to comment. Abortion is one of the few topics EVERYONE has an oppinion on and I remember seeing a bumper sticker on Merry’s jeep when I was in High school that said “An Aborted Baby Will Never […]

Did the bank bail out make federal housing?

There is an argument that when the tax payers bailed out the banks and mortgage industries without our dollars that the foreclosed and vacant homes held by those companies then became publically owned and could and should be seen as “public housing” for the homeless and low-income. A Group in Madison Wisconsin is taking that stance and moving […]

Housing Wage – how much you need to earn to live in California

California In California, the Fair Market Rent (FMR) for a two-bedroom apartment is $1,327. In order to afford this level of rent and utilities, without paying more than 30% of income on housing, a household must earn $4,423 monthly or $53,079 annually. Assuming a 40-hour work week, 52 weeks per year, this level of income […]

Seth Diamond, Dunce or Devil?

New York has the most Homeless individuals it has seen since the Great Depression so of course it is removing Employment Specialists (Job Developers) from 13 shelters. With fewer than 4% of all new housing being set aside for the Homeless (far fewer than when Koch was in charge) – clients of the local shelters […]

Homeless Henchmen for Hire

Can someone tell Foodnetwork Juan-Carlos Cruz that not having a home does not equate to not having morals or common sense. He attempted to hire three men who are homeless in Santa Monica to kill his wife. His method of payment was a $100 bill that was torn in half. Apparently he would give the other half […]

Sleeping and run over by a truck

A man was sleeping on the side of the freeway in Portland last night when a truck, driven by a young man who was drunk, went off the road and flipped. During the accident a homeless man was killed by the vehicle. They think he died instantly. No one knows who the sleeping man was. […]

For Profit Colleges scam the poor

and you, the tax payer pay for it. Mind you, many of these classes are offered tuition free at community or public college. Sometimes we can not pay for CalWORKS clients to attend these schools because the cost is unnecessary. Read this story on how places like The University of Phoenix and other “schools” […]

“THOSE kind of people”

I received a comment that Koch Industries funding for the homeless would be wasted because “those kind of people” are not good press and instead of supporting the effort to end the causes or symptoms of homelessness – funders will be “bemoaned”. Really? What kind of people are the homeless really and how do you see […]