Tag: homeless

Homeless from Domestic Violence in the West Side?

OPCC.NET – Ocean Park Community Center has the services you can use! Sojourn 24-Hour Hotline (310) 264-6644 MISSION STATEMENT: SOJOURN provides battered women and their children a safe space to regroup, rebuild, and reestablish their self-esteem and lives. SOJOURN honors diversity, serving without discrimination clients of any class, culture, race, ethnicity, age, faith, sexual orientation, […]

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Food on Foot

Feed a person for a day for less than $5. FOOD on Foot: Distributes food every Sunday and has a clean up program. (copied from their site)Our Menu It only costs us $4.76 to feed a person. $3.50 – Two-piece chicken meal with corn, rice, and tortillas (El Pollo Loco) $0.23 – Granola Bar $0.20 […]

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be an adult

“Women are here to serve me. My mom should feed me and let me stay at her place. My woman should work and give me her paycheck. My kids are all maned after me because their other parent aint worth nothing” No joke: I heard this today from a man who was irate that he […]

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limo liberal

I give money to the African Children on television, but if a real homeless person slept on my doorstep? I’d call the police and have them arrested. -over heard as a quote. It sounds about right when I think of the politics of homelessness.

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Domestic Violence and the Zero

Women with household incomes less than $7,500 are 7 times as likely as women with household incomes over $75,000 to experience domestic violence. That’s one powerful zero. In my experience, homeless women are far more likely to have $7,500 or less than they are to having even $17,000. They can’t afford housing anywhere other than […]

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