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
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
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 tru
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 P
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
The January 6, 2021 siege on Capitol Hill is still very fresh in my mind. Three days later (it feels like 3 months later), as you might imagine, I and the rest of the world have some thoughts on the m
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 Diseas
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 gro
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 outd
1/5/2021 If I see my friend Ashleigh Hughes as the potential Evangelical Dorothy Day, I see myself as the homeless anthropologist equivalent of Jane Goodall. The problem with my comparison to Jane Goo
A standard approach of bringing down a dictator like Dan Horrigan is to attack his pillars of power. You go after the people that help him maintain power. Thomarios is a long-term benefactor of scrapi
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 we
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 chronic
Remember this when the city comes to shut off your water and your children ask why they can’t get a drink of water and then the city comes to evict you become you have no water. Mike Freeman, Brad McK
I’ve been following this story since it began. Basically, an activist group occupied a hotel and put homeless people in it. Some with chronic illnesses. Some with Covid. And then what happened next is
When is enough enough? American homelessness is a needless and tragic and cruel humanitarian disaster. Second homeless person dies in the cold in Kansas City A deceased person was found in a vacant bu
Massachusetts shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives BOSTON — As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are concerned about homelessness in Massachusetts, where s
What I might hate about Corporate Democrats most of all is how they aren’t actually for business. They are just for their corporate friends’ businesses. Dan Horrigan is killing businesses on Main Stre
If you aren’t aware of this, you should be. I was just reading this Letters to editor: Property taxes rising amid pandemic, thanks to Summit County office The property value of my home went WAY up. I
We in America have been so indoctrinated into the cult of Capitalism that an alternative economic philosophy seems like pure and total madness. I am not a Communist. Not that I have anything against t