Category: Homelessness
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Sunday Morning With Sage – Trap Houses
We discussed trap houses this morning. It was recorded on August 16, 2020. Here is the audio version: Here is the video Version:
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The Societal Importance Of The Trap House
As someone who ran a trap house for a time, let me tell you… it’s a thankless job. People you’ve never met appear out of nowhere. They move in. They bring their belongings (of which they often have a lot). They build doors out of found objects. They mount hinged locks on doors in your…
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The Collapse Of An Unsanctioned Homeless Camp
One of the nearly endless frustrations I have with this work is how there is not even a basic curiosity of how these homeless camps work. I’ve never understood why anthropologists aren’t swarming homeless camps to try to get a better understanding of how early civilization was formed. Every single homeless camp I’ve got to…
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Futility
The most futile feeling in the world is sitting in courtrooms and political chambers listening to politicians and appointed officials talk about how I have a “big heart” but zoning laws are more important than people dying on the street.
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Do The Right Thing
This is Kenny Boldt. He has instilled within me a very powerful motto: “Do the right thing.” Very often I hear his words when I am tired or lazy. “Do the right thing.” A couple weeks ago a grandma, mom and 8 year old girl were on the street. This kind of tragedy is so…
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Ohio Supreme Court Declines to Consider Whether Lower Courts May Create Barriers to Lawsuits
Sadly, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear our case that our law firm, Institute for Justice, diligently attempted to be heard. Throughout this ENTIRE process we have been fought every step of the way by the mayor, city council, zoning and courts ALL on technicalities. We simply want SOMEONE to answer the question: Does an…
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Worried about her dad
80% of the time I’m able to emotionally distance myself (for my own psychological wellbeing) from the brutal suffering caused by homelessness. But sometimes it really hits me. Like this message I got last night. I’ve been friends with her dad for years. He’s lived on the street all the time I’ve known him. The…
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Sage’s Quarantine Plan For Homeless People In Regards To Coronavirus
I want to put this out there sooner than later. There is a possibility I have already been exposed to coronavirus. So, in the event I get sick I want to make sure my ideas are out there. Obviously, these are just my personal opinions and if I’m out of the game then others will…
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Sage’s Recommendations For Working With Homeless People In A Coronavirus World
I want to make very clear that I am not a doctor. I am simply a person who is as educated as many people are with what is happening in our world with Coronavirus. That said, I haven’t seen any realistic documentation and recommendations on how best to work with homeless people during this time…
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Episode 27 – Sage Against the Machine Podcast
Here’s the audio version: [buzzsprout episode=’2811331′ player=’true’] And here is the video:
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United State and Canada 2020 Homeless Point-in-Time (PIT) Dates and Web site links #pitcount
(Use the hashtag #pitcount and take pictures of the new friends you meet during this count. People getting to spend a little time with homeless people is probably the best and most important part of this otherwise absurd exercise. I’d LOVE to see your pictures.) HUD requires that the Homeless Point-in-Time (PIT) count be held…
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The Point-in-Time (PIT) Count is Complete and Total Bullshit!
If ever there was a more appropriate use of the word “bullshit” in describing something I’ve never seen it. The HUD mandated homeless Point-in-Time (PIT) count is complete and total bullshit. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to complete the count in order to receive federal funding for homeless programs. Some…
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Dorothy Day | Alan Graham | Sage Lewis – A communist, a real estate developer and an entrepreneur.
There is a very clear thread that runs through the work of the 3 of us. If you aren’t familiar, Dorothy Day founded the Catholic Workers Movement. She, among other things, created “houses of hospitality” and then a series of farms for people to live together on communes. These were created for the homeless and…
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What Akron’s Extreme Evictions Actually Mean To Us All
I was driving a man across town to a friend’s house. He had stayed at our tent village for a time. But I didn’t recall him very clearly. He is deep in the throws of a hard core Fentanyl addiction. Fentanyl is 50 times more addictive than heroin and 100 times more addictive than morphine.…
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Akron won’t open warming centers until ZERO degrees Fahrenheit
A supporter of ours, Eva Buhite, called the Akron Mayor’s office at 330-375-2256. They told her that they will not open any homeless warming centers until the temperature gets to ZERO degrees. (They also told her that we are NOT allowed to say the mayor needs to open warming centers. So check your freedom of…
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Intravenous Drug Users: This is for you.
If you are “shocked” by swear words or just actual life in general, this post is not for you. This post is for people that shoot drugs. Look… I don’t give a shit that you shoot drugs. I’d probably shoot my shit too. It looks like a really powerful way to go. But a lot…
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Accepting American Slums
Do you know that phrase, “like a bat out of hell?” I don’t think you can truly appreciate a phrase like that until you have actually gone “like a bat out of hell.” We were screaming east on I-20 trying to make the 120 mile trip from Dallas to Kilgore Texas in as close to…
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Protected: So you think I’m slandering Dan Horrigan
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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The Lamb and The Tyger
The problem with me is that I take things seriously. I don’t read the history of a man like Akronite John Brown and just say, “Aw that’s nice.” No. “John Brown advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.” Let me say it another way: John Brown…
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Dear Governor DeWine – Please Help Us.
Dear Governor DeWine, I am writing because I don’t know where else to turn. Perhaps you have heard about the mulit-year fight we have been having with the city of Akron over the right to shelter our homeless citizens. Here are a couple articles that do a good job of covering the issue at hand:…