I lived with the homeless, much of that time with Korean War vets and some Vietnam war vets, for six years. I also was involved with sheltering families.
Every story is different, but homelessness often happened to people, after two very serious incidents happened to them in too short a time.
I mean hey, 90 % of all US alcoholics are not homeless, x percent of various and sundry mentally ill people are not homeless, etc. etc.
We hit 26 garbage dumpsters four nights a week for a free food store in Des Moines Iowa which went to two soup kitchens and a whole lot of our neighbors at the time, the paperwork was tightening up on people for food stamps, SSI, etc, and they were falling through the crack in incredible numbers at the time. I can name all too many people who died.
No, I sold Rufus Jones House to Catholic Social Services (someone had to own it) for $5 and it still shelters homeless families as St. Joseph House. And it has probably been full ever since CSS took it over in 1991.
What is the moral or point? There hasn't been a lot of change positive for the homeless since the 1980's and I doubt that the Orwellian plan they propose will help anyone. The growth industries in the US will remain the same, banking, pharmaceuticals, prisons and the military. The poor will go to jail.
I am very happy to be working on landed residency for Canada at this time and working with the developmentally disable as I have since 1991. This is just an embryonic police state sticking their feet in the door. It is done for control.
Martin Niemoller said it best.
They came for the..., and I did nothing.
Me, I am emigrating.
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I lived with the homeless, much of that time with Korean War vets and some Vietnam war vets, for six years. I also was involved with sheltering families. Every story is different, but homelessness often happened to people, after two very serious incidents happened to them in too short a time. I mean hey, 90 % of all US alcoholics are not homeless, x percent of various and sundry mentally ill people are not homeless, etc. etc. We hit 26 garbage dumpsters four nights a week for a free food store in Des Moines Iowa which went to two soup kitchens and a whole lot of our neighbors at the time, the paperwork was tightening up on people for food stamps, SSI, etc, and they were falling through the crack in incredible numbers at the time. I can name all too many people who died. No, I sold Rufus Jones House to Catholic Social Services (someone had to own it) for $5 and it still shelters homeless families as St. Joseph House. And it has probably been full ever since CSS took it over in 1991. What is the moral or point? There hasn't been a lot of change positive for the homeless since the 1980's and I doubt that the Orwellian plan they propose will help anyone. The growth industries in the US will remain the same, banking, pharmaceuticals, prisons and the military. The poor will go to jail. I am very happy to be working on landed residency for Canada at this time and working with the developmentally disable as I have since 1991. This is just an embryonic police state sticking their feet in the door. It is done for control. Martin Niemoller said it best. They came for the ..., and I did nothing.
Me, I am emigrating.