The Hollywood Dorms

Because sometimes we are just “in between homes” and need a night or a week, or a month or so in a bed while we prepare to go to our next home. It sounds interesting, like a hotel but not as posh – just a place to come inside and rest while moving between homes […]

Homeless or Bad Parenting

I know some really fantastic parents who are homeless. I meet their children, get graduation announcements and copies of report cards and have the chance to see Mom or Dad in action in my office. these children are happy, healthy, and well-adjusted and aware so varying degrees that they are homeless. And, I see awful, […]

Formerly Homeless Famous Folk . . .

Do you think THEY would help save @URM @HopeGardens? I like to keep a list of formerly homeless people handy so when I am talking to my homeless Welfare parents I can remind them that poverty and homelessness CAN BE TEMPORARY. Halle Berry . . . Oscar-winning and Emmy Award-winning actress (shelter in New York City) […]

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 […]

Want $90 a night?

you should have been a registered sex offender in Suffolk County New York. “The voucher system is a policy for sex offender emergency housing in Suffolk, in which the Department of Social Services gives a homeless sex offender a daily voucher of $90 and the sex offender is responsible for finding their own housing,” -County Legislature Presiding Officer […]

Rent for your Homeless Shelter

Should you pay for shelter? Where would the money come from, where does it go, how is it spent and is it far? In New York the plan is to charge rent for shelter residents. The Huffington Post has an article from Covenant House touting their approach to rent and why it is character building. […]

West Hollywood Homeless

A basic understanding of how We Ho views and addresses the population who don’t have housing in their city. They contract with @ePATH. Read the article here: http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/page.php?articleID=4649

www.preblestreet.org

Check out Portland Maine’s “Preble Street” and the new Women’s Housing it is opening this month for 40 previously homeless women who will have apartments, semi private bedrooms and a quiet shelter space , this is a HUGE change from sleeping on cots in the corner of large shelter rooms. The Portland Press Herald has […]

USICH : What is it , why do I give it a #fail ?

USICH stands for United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. Nothing on their page will tell you that, unless you hover over the tab in your internet browser. I literally had to Google it. I am hoping that, as an agency , they are better at their job than they are at getting their name out […]

Bon Jovi goes to LAMP

Monday morning, Steve Lopez of the LA Times and Bon Jovi visited Lamp Community. Read more HERE. Lamp has a new web page and apparently is switching executive directors. Congratulations to Shannon Murray Interim Executive DirectorOther really cool and impressive people to watch at LAMP are: Lawrence Manley Food Services Manager. Great big man who […]