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PATH PartnersPeople are starting to feel that the end of the recession is near, if not over. So, will empathy for people living on our streets be sustained?
Tag Archives: homelessness
How HomeTown Became HomeLess
May 14, 2013 – 4:40 pm
Once upon a time, there was a large, bustling city called HomeTown that was hit by a devastating earthquake.
A Sick Homeless “Solution”: Kidnap and Dump
Apr 22, 2013 – 3:40 pm
Kidnapping is a serious accusation. It’s associated with missing children on milk cartons or snatched tourists in some far corner of the world, but it probably doesn’t make most of us think of people who are homeless. Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the Detroit Police Department of kidnapping members of the city’s [...]
Pity Goes Both Ways
Apr 16, 2013 – 12:02 am
I am homeless, but I don’t I need your pity. Not even if I am a 66-year-old man, perched on the edge of the curb and looking like I should be in convalescent care. Or an anxious young mother, barely old enough to drive, sitting in a beat-up old car with a baby in the back seat. I don’t need, or want, your pity.
Why Sequestration Would Increase Homelessness
Apr 8, 2013 – 9:18 pm
The sequestration saber-rattling on the other side of the country pronounced the end of White House tours and the annual Easter egg hunt, cuts that would “never” affect Jason or the thousands of other Americans living in subsidized housing. But when the federal government seized part of the funding of numerous important public programs, subsidized housing was one of them.
What Does it Really Mean to be “Vulnerable”?
Mar 25, 2013 – 11:43 pm
Vulnerable. It’s a word we often use to describe the clients our programs target—individuals who have serious health, mental health, and substance abuse challenges; who are frequent utilizers of hospitals and emergency rooms; and who are at high risk of dying on the streets. Veterans, seniors, families, and youth also often fall into that category. But, when we’re talking about more than 650,000 homeless people in our country, what does “vulnerable” really mean?
Point That Finger Somewhere Else
Mar 12, 2013 – 5:33 pm
Is our struggling economy the culprit? There just isn’t enough money to spend on helping people who live on our streets. We can barely fund our police officers and firefighters. Teachers are being laid off and city workers are being furloughed. Maybe it’s easier to blame others than to figure out how to fund more housing….
San Diego Refines its Approach to Homelessness
Mar 4, 2013 – 7:11 pm
It took six years to get to this opening, from the formation of a vision task force in 2007 to the moving in of some of the city’s most chronically homeless citizens.
This is Not My Home
Feb 5, 2013 – 1:59 am
We cannot end homelessness with solutions that are temporary. People experiencing homelessness need something real. Something permanent. Something they can call home.
