Sitting on the stoop of “The Lodge”, I see a red truck pull up and something shiny and silver emerges from a cracked down window. A frail, heavily accented Latin voice yells “You wannta a burrito?” as the car pulls to a stop. Suddenly the car is swarmed by grown men and women who want […]
Read More Pictures from my visit to The Lodge on Skid RowWell darn, I can ppost from my phone, but not upload images. Someone should tell me if they make a WordPress App!
Read More testing the posting ability from the “crackberry”The Kid and I in our Yellow Shirts
Read More Pictures from Homewalk LAYou suck! You are a pig and you break things and you are a disgrace to have in my building! or You are a nice person and I am glad to see you in the building. I asked you to come in today because of the hole in the hallways. I saw you punch the […]
Read More Housing the Homeless – How to, and what not to doJohn Best showed me that there are several common factors in a Homeless person’s life. Often a person has more than one of these issues as an ingredient into their homelessness. mental illness – possibly undiagnosed physical illness poor relationship with family criminal history victim of crime alcohol addiction drug addiction member of street culture/street […]
Read More Why are people homeless?When is HomeWalk? Saturday, November 15, 2008 Exposition Park 700 Exposition Park Drive Los Angeles, CA 90037 here is a Link to the info page, it is TOTALLY free to register, raise funds, or awareness, or possibly BOTH!
Read More HOMEWALK LA – I will be there!As you know, I don’t work directly for the County of Los Angeles – I work on their behalf as an employee of a contracted agency. This is the first time I have worked for an actual “for profit” company. Previously I worked on Skid Row for LAMP Community as a Housing Advocate – Housing […]
Read More Contracted Welfare in LA County – a thing of the past?By R. W. Dellinger Some witnesses say John Robert McGraham tried to run away from his torturer after gasoline was poured over his body and ignited as he sat on the sidewalk the warm evening of Oct. 9. But the 55-year-old homeless man, who had been living on the streets of L.A. for decades, didn’t […]
Read More Burned to death for being homelessfrom the AFP – Five homeless shot dead in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Five homeless people — three men and two women — were found shot dead on Sunday in Los Angeles area, a police spokesman said. The five bodies were found under two major highways north of Long Beach, 50 kilometers […]
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