Homeless Case Manager or Jerk…

#fb I needed to be less of a butt-head and learn to case manager

Darlene is my favorite artist

She lives on Skid Row and paints about the place – but with an apparentl love for the people there.

Meet Linda Harris

Singer, resident of Skid Row, and I saw her on The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS. I was writing about the show on my Facebook when Darlene Altemeier Dobbs (my friend, a painter, and also resident of skid Row) mentioned to look for Linda.) This is Jackie and Linda from after The United Way […]

Jobs working with the Homeless

I refer to it at the Street Luge of social Services – but it is rewarding and challenging and intense to the point that this job will change how you see family dynamics, local and world politics. Here are the links to my favorite Homeless service Providers and their current Employment Opportunities: Beyond Shelter Please send […]

Art by and for Homeless

Artwork by Artists without homes. “creativity is not just what he puts on the canvas but what he puts in his heart to make it through another day” -Mark Horvath aka @HardlyNormal Lamp Art Project on 7th street in Los Angeles’s Skid Row Floaters in Arizona Drawbridge for Children in San Francisco Hearts of Fire – Oija […]

Double Murder – a year later

What happened Easter morning in 2009 at The Lamp Lodge in LA’s Skid Row and what does it say about the safety and services for residents there . . . Read the City Journal’s story on the Truth about Policing and Skid Row for an animated accounting of the murder and reasons behind it. Basically […]

Skid Row Murder update

Shanana Flores, Lamont Ward, and, Richard Luna. These are the names of the people who caused the Lamp Lodge Murder at 660 S Stanford Avenue on Easter Sunday. Ryan Vaillancourt wrote a wonderful story on this in the Los Angeles Downtown News. But, they are not the only people responsible. That portion of Skid Row […]

Tipper Gore on her homeless friends

I follow http://www.change.org on Twitter ad a few days ago, they posted this wonderful article by Tipper Gore. You remember her, wife of the former VP now Nobel Prize Winner Al . . . Tipper wrote on the http://www.takepart.com blog about her memories of working with residents of the street. Personally, I loved it. Here […]

Pictures from my visit to The Lodge on Skid Row

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 […]

Friends at Lamp

Happiness is not the balance of your bank account . . friends come in all income ranges