I wonder if Dallas Texas City Council member Dave Neumann and Scott Griggs, president of the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group want to know about the mental health and income of everyone in their city – or if they are prejudice against the homeless? Apparently if you have been homeless then you should not be able to […]
Read More NIMBY-ism in Dallas housing solutionat a retreat yesterday. He fell out of his canoe and did not survive. He was on a retreat from Los Angeles’s Skid Row. The full story is HERE in the Mercury News
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Read More Calworks HCFPEvery 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.
Read More Case scenario trainingHere 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 […]
Read More Abortion as a Basic Right for Homeless WomenThere 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 […]
Read More Did the bank bail out make federal housing?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 […]
Read More Housing Wage – how much you need to earn to live in CaliforniaNew 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 […]
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