Category: Homelessness

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…

The truth of homeless camps sweeps is that they are doing exactly what they have always done to people that don’t like… they are forcing them to move somewhere else.  Doing this is in our DNA. We did it with Native Americans. We did it with Japanese in World War II and now we’re doing…

This is how fucked up homelessness has become.  They close services and then send people to those services because there is no other place to send them. Police OFTEN sent homeless people to our tent village that the city eventually closed.   Body cam footage captures Seattle officers directing homeless person to Cal Anderson Park…

It’s like a cry for help (that was completely ignored). Capitol lockdown lifted: Inauguration rehearsal participants briefly evacuated after fire in homeless camp | NewsNation Now The U.S. Capitol complex temporarily locked down Monday during a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration after a fire in a homeless encampment about a mile away sent a…

L.A. project shows homeless housing can be done quickly, cheaply – Los Angeles Times From start to finish in under five months and at a cost of about $200,000 per bed, it has shaved years and hundreds of thousands of dollars off a traditional homeless housing project. ARE YOU FUCKING ME RIGHT NOW? There is…

Guest Commentary | Small managed homeless encampments are part of the answer – Santa Cruz Sentinel We believe that small, managed encampments that have sanitary facilities, some measure of self-governance, security and on-site access to services and case management, including mental health and addiction services, are the reasonable and humane solution. The encampments need to…

A bodybuilding pastor: Homeless advocate Scott Wagers is unapologetic about his calling – San José Spotlight In 1997, in the middle of a cold El Niño winter, Wagers opened an informal homeless shelter at First Christian Church on South Fifth Street. About 100 people came in to sleep, according to Wagers, so he didn’t flinch…

Bullshit! Needles don’t clog toilets. using t-shirts for feminine products does. San Jose cuts water in park with large homeless population, blames needles – San José Spotlight But the water was turned off on Dec. 14 when drains in one of the bathrooms clogged and the facility flooded. Both of the restrooms were closed for…

It’s unfortunate that the mayor’s conclusion ended so simplistically and unnuanced. “Those hippies just want to do drugs” does very little to think rationally about the situation. It also is extremely condescending to people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol and yet again made to look like losers by their mayor instead of what…

Garbage trucks arrive at Back 40 homeless camp day after death LANSING — City-funded garbage trucks arrived a homeless encampment Thursday morning, carting away several tents, sleeping bags and trash as residents broke down in tears. We must end this cruel and inhumane form of punishment for being poor. Cities hate homeless people. That’s the only reason…

I don’t know a lot of details about this situation. But apparently the mayor’s conclusion after doing this is that staying at a camp is a lifestyle choice versus going to a shelter. I guess that’s true if you are willing to: lose all your belongings. Leave your dog unattended in the freezing cold. Leave…

Vandal damages Portland tiny home village designed for homeless – KTVZ PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Multnomah County officials and police say the opening of a tiny home village for homeless people in North Portland has been delayed after a vandal damaged nearly every sleeping pod in the shelter. Officer Melissa Newhard, a Portland Police Bureau…

 The way we shut down camps is absolutely illegal and cruel and inhumane. It must end NOW. As St. Paul homeless camps cleared, tough questions emerge | Duluth News Tribune “How the (expletive) are you going to kick people out in the cold when I’m already out in the cold?” said Lance, who has made…

Ogdenites turn out en masse at council meeting to protest homeless camp dispersal | Local News | standard.net Castillo and several of the speakers at Tuesday’s council meeting noted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines dealing with homeless camps. According to the CDC, if individual housing options are not available, people who are living…

There are a lot of great statistics in this article about homelessness in New Hampshire. Report finds a ‘tidal wave’ of homelessness In January, the point-in-time study found that homelessness had grown by 21% (293 people) over 2019 with a total of 1,675 unsheltered people.  “And that’s before the pandemic, which is almost sticker shock,”…

This is such an obvious need I can’t believe we have to fight so hard to make them happen. Denver’s first sanctioned homeless encampments offer a glimmer of hope, stability Benjamin said the safe outdoor space has given him a spot where he can keep his few belongings and leave his well-behaved dog for the…

Man froze to death after sweep of Kansas City homeless camp | The Kansas City Star On New Year’s Day, Eike, 41, was found dead from exposure, said Nellie Ann McCool with Free Hot Soup. Temperatures were below freezing the night of New Year’s Eve, just before the metro endured a sizable storm of snow…

Telling stories is how humans learn best. I’m so thankful Diane Nilan has created this memoir: Dismazed and Driven Memoir – Diane shares stories from her 15 years on America’s backroads as she chronicled family homelessness. Living full-time in a small van, her solo travel to non-urban locales included adventures and unforgettable encounters.  Dismazed & Driven…