Author: Sage

Homeless people have every right in the book to be angry.  New homeless camp appears after Bellingham sweep near City Hall | king5.com Neighbors fear the camp will increase crime, drive away business and spark clashes similar to what was seen at City Hall.

If you are new to this fight you need to know that we have asked kindly for YEARS. There is not much left to do other than what these people are doing. Activists take over Washington hotel to demand housing for homeless during pandemic – ABC News Members of a housing advocacy group were arrested…

Doing what is right isn’t hard once you wake up to the fact that it is a moral necessity to do so. Local churches house homeless from snow storm HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Christian Churches United Men’s and Women’s winter overnight shelters in Harrisburg are opening earlier Sunday and Monday due to the snow,…

STAND STRONG HOUSELESS PEOPLE! You are right. They are wrong. Large Homeless Encampment Reappears In East Oakland; Business Owners, Neighbors Begging City Officials To Take Action – CBS San Francisco A police officer and neighbors said the homeless broke down a fence and took over the large lot next to the High Street Home Depot…

If just a few people would be willing to shelter homeless people and they were seen as heroes and not pariahs homelessness would be over tomorrow. Salt Lake City activist allows new homeless encampment on his front lawn “I just think that’s it’s a lot better environment to have somebody open their yard and pretty…

‘Save our community’: Neighbors protest against plan to house homeless people at northwest Austin hotel | KXAN Austin AUSTIN (KXAN) — Neighbors of a northwest Austin hotel touted as a potential location to house homeless people voiced their opposition to the plans on Sunday morning. Dozens of people gathered for a protest by the Candlewood…

Protesters for the homeless told to leave vacant building in Kalamazoo | WWMT KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A group of activists for the homeless took over a former publishing building in Kalamazoo near a homeless encampment and were vacated by police. A group calling themselves No One Needs To Sleep Outside entered the former home of…

For the first time, Sacramento opens parking garage to provide homeless shelter from winter storms “We mobilized that in just a few hours,” said Daniel Bowers, director of emergency services for the City of Sacramento. “[There’s] onsite security throughout the night, they can park in a protected area and they can get a good night’s…

We don’t count homeless people accurately because we don’t want to let on what an incredible nightmare is truly going on in the richest, most Christian country in the world. Opinion | How Many Americans Are Homeless? No One Knows – The New York Times The government pretends that the problem is smaller than it…

  This only happens for one reason: We judge homeless people for their suffering. And so we leave them to freeze to death on the streets of the most Christian, richest country in the world.   2 Homeless People Died During Storm Overnight, Sacramento Mayor Says – CBS Sacramento “Just confirmed that one unhoused person…

 “It makes us look really bad as a city.” – this is the essence of the entire homeless epidemic. People are embarrassed they have poor people that have nowhere to live.    Hickory Hill residents frustrated with homeless living outside vacant building  

I feel like $5000 is still too expensive. But I like these. A lot. Pallet creating prefab tiny homes for the homeless – Business Insider “What we felt was really missing from the housing spectrum was a dignified shelter option that honored their individuality and allowed them to have autonomy in their rehabilitation process,” Amy…

This isn’t hard. Allowing people to freeze to death unsheltered in immoral, inhumane and cruel. Anyone who thinks withholding shelter from a person with no shelter is evil and cruel.  Duluth advocates push ahead with yurts-for-homeless initiative | Duluth News Tribune “Indigenous people have lived this way for all of our existence. We know how…

Save Austin Now looks to put the homeless camping ban on the May ballot | KXAN Austin “Homelessness is not being addressed right now. Telling a homeless person they can sleep in a tent in 30-degree weather, give them no mental health treatment, no drug and alcohol treatment, no food, no real shelter — that’s…

This is the future! I guarantee it. There is no other way.  Sacramento City Council Approves Rules Allowing Homeless Encampments On ‘Safe Ground’ Sites – capradio.org The Sacramento City Council voted 8 to 1 on Tuesday to approve the “safe ground” ordinance, a framework for allowing homeless encampments and tiny homes on properties that meet…