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FAQ about Skid Row Los Angeles

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Dignity for the Poor

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Aftershock #fb

Kamakazi Friday hangover. Today I spoke with a new mom. No, she wasn’t a new mom. She had a healthy pregnancy and told the delivery nurse that she needed a doctor. Being a nurse herself, she knew what she was talking about. But the nurse refused for two hours and the baby drowned in her […]

Welfare bills in CA and the Gov’t up for discussion

Personally, I don’t favor most of these, but this is the list sent to me. 2013 bill tracker -3-7-13.doc

TB on Skid Row #wp

This may mean that the property of Homeless Individuals is thrown away or destroyed. Not to offend or hurt the homeless, but to protect them. TB is a terrible and hard to treat illness and currently rampant on Skid Row. I remember being taught at the Weingart Center about TB and being ceritfied to read […]

#wp Accountability – who is responisible for ending your personal homelessness

Accountability. It is endlessly frustrating to speak to someone who is telling me they ONLY have 70 days left on a shelter before I need to find them new housing. NO! no, no , no! You have 70 days with in which to find yourself housing. Take this time to look for a job. Apply […]

Poverty wages are a woman’s issue

Staring isn’t curing his homelessness

The Van Nuys Coco’s was my lunch destination with DC and the baby today. They were serving homeless men there (when I offered to pay the bill they said the staff already paid for them). And as I came from washing my hands, and passing a man who smelled homeless, a lady was staring at […]