Meet Nemo

He is my piggy bank. I let kids play with his coins. Once a mother told her child to keep the money and baked when I said "no". She said that because I had a job, I didn’t need the funds and if I really needed it I would have spent it. Well…today I am […]

Rape Culture….All in a nice little book

Listening to this is making me angry. He is controlling and assaults her and she starts out angry, scared and fighting. So please explain to me how statements to the effect of 1. I will punish you with kisses 2. You must have known that dress would… 3. Men are not rocks How is this […]

This. This thank you note

Is what makes my day so great and my job meaningful. Pardon the high tech censorship. Xo homeless In Los Angeles

How do you explain the über rich and the homeless

Being on the same streets

Pacoima , Facebook, and a man on the streets

Homelessness is real a nd affects everyone. Here, in Pacoima, this man is a fixture on a local street. The Facebook group for the neighborhood is learning the worst of all truths about homelessness: there is no easy cure. There are no available shelter beds. We can’t find a place for him to sleep MEND […]

Los Angeles Car Living no longer illegal

The courts have struck down the law making it illegal to live in a vehicle. This makes sense. I fully understand how awkward it is to have someone live in a small box with windows allowing the people with homes to view the poverty living next to homes. I also know a car is safer […]

Gardening as a Catalyst for Social Change

Hello @Tarryhammer! Disclaimer: I have a little and not so secret crush on my friend Luke Ippoliti of MEND ( Meet Each Need with Dignity) in Pacoima. He works in the Food Bank and Home Gardening program. MEND understands that 66% of residents are renters and use most of their money on housing , this […]

War on poverty

A battle won between 1960 and 1974 half the poor entered the middle class. What happened? We stopped fighting and then started killing all programs of education and health for all people. Take the taxes and invest in fighting poverty the smart way. There is no set number of poor people that we have to […]

Supervisor Zeb on Homelessness at @mendpoverty

Discussing the savings of housing the homeless in Los Angeles people vs the public assistance cost at meet Each Need With Dignity. He isn’t giving out numbers but I think it is less than $17,000 to house a person,$30,000 for them to live on the streets and $60,000 to imprison a person. I feel weird […]