Homeless in Popular Literature

Listening to @OverDriveInc audio book “We is for Wasted” by Sue Grafton and it touched accurately on the awkward topic of #homelessness

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 […]

Housing is the cure for homelessness

The cost to house someone is $12,000 a year with no strings attached . What is the cost of putting that same person in prison ? It will cost $16,000 to leave them on the street where they will need public help like 911, emergency rooms and police I tervention. This is the plan in […]

My Addiction to Kids

Some people are worth the effort to change the world

Anti Homeless spikes?

Stepping over people who have no money as I am about to spent my money…well, let’s agree it is an awkward moment. And property value must plunge when folks loiter and sleep by your store. Clearly the idea of spikes is tempting. No icky public officials to sit with, no 10 year plan to watch […]