Glenoaks and Paxton homeless encampment moved

This is from City Councilman Monica Rodriguez “Today marks the culmination of a week-long housing and sanitation operation at Paxton and Bradley, more than a year in the making. Some noted that tents did not come down overnight. There was a lot of careful planning that went into ensuring the residents were housed, property managed […]

“Welfare Queens” will survive the lockdowns better than you will

your poor friends could teach a master class on surviving a lockdown with no money

Have breathalyzer, will travel

I am on my way to go visit our patients in the shelters. I’m hoping to be able to connect to Microsoft teams so they can see their case managers or at least either faces. Right now the sense of isolation is pretty strong and that is really very bad for the mental health status […]

It is 11pm and I’m at work

The shelter house was doing some kind of haunted plumbing acting n with sludge in the tubs and toilets. I strongly believe everyone deserves a clean place to pee and shower so we went to meet the Root Rooter guy at 8pm. He arrived at 9:15 pm. Dudes, I’m tired. I did 9 hours at […]

Look at my orchid, is it toxic?

Now, a zoom in close for a better look… Thank you. This orchid is so demanding and I feel like I can never keep it happy. If you have friends that you want to check in with, please ask them to examine my orchid also. Call 1-800- 799-7233 for the name of a really good […]

Thank you

Even the best of us who are happy healthy and will adjusted are feeling stressed out right now. Imagine if you are receiving professional assistance with a substance use disorder, and mental health issue, and oh yeah you’re homeless. And now the entire world has been turned off. And the two shelters that I run […]

I added a lil something to Kaiser’s photo

The super handsome guy on the bottom left of the pictures, and green and black, is my kind of sort of cousin. He is an essential employee and works at Kaiser. They made this public service picture. I like to think that I added a little some something that was needed. I refrained from the […]

Good and bad

The worst part of this all has been that I have not hugged my child in a week. She’s 9 years old and has not had human contact for 7 days. The best part of this pandemic is that we are finally taking the massive steps that we should have been doing 2 decades ago.

DHS List of Community Resources for LA County

We are Safer At Home but may need help. Here are several county wide resources during COVID-19

Downtown hand washing stations don’t work all the time.

Well, this sucks. Especially right now in a time when sanitation is important because of the Corona virus, we need working soap and water stations for the masses.