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 […]

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

Put Your Foot Down and do the HomeWalk

#fb @homewalk It is November 13th at Exposition Park

Plugged in Without a Power Bill

aka Homeless with Web I found this on Gizmodo – “I’m homeless and this is why I have an iPad” and this Is it okay for the homeless to have cell phones and FaceBook and Twitter accounts and e-mail? It had better be if you expect them to ever become housed. And anyway, who cares what […]

Not homeless, still important

#fb This is Billy. My daughter loves him. He used to talk to her about camping and listen to her chatter on about the trials of being 10 years old. He hasn’t been homeless in a few years, but he lives in housing on skid row. Building skills like money management and how to pay […]

Those with little give to one with less

#fb The Skid Row McDonalds is near the bus station. Someone gave me a restroom token and a Monopoly piece for a "beef sandwich" which I was eating when this woman came in. " I jst need 5 more dollars and then I can get out of this place. I can’t live here anymore. This […]

Video of 6th

Hottest bed ever

I had a friend who lived in this SRO, with no airconditioning and communal bathrooms/showers on each floor. To get cool at night we would turn on the fans, open the windows to the sounds of the street (cars,fights,hookers,porn being filmed in the old church across the street) and wet towels with cold water to […]