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Hey Bloggers! The blog master thanks you for your interest in this site. Many of you want more information about the homeless and more original content. Remember that this particular blog is pitching a novel about the homeless that is titled “Words Unspoken, Things Unseen”. Although the novel “Word Unspoken, Things Unseen” is fiction, the author Joe Rodriguez was homeless himself and the book echoes what it means to live on the streets. In plain talk, the book gets down…..
By JULIA WICK STAFF WRITER SEP. 27, 2019 BAKERSFIELD — In the face of an ever-growing homelessness crisis, cities across California have been searching for solutions, from adding shelters and affordable housing to improving mental health and substance abuse services.But in Bakersfield, officials are considering a more radical approach: They want to put homeless people in jail for misdemeanor drug offenses and potentially for trespassing.The tactic would fly in the face of criminal justice reform over the last decade in California,…..
By Ed O’Loughlin DUBLIN — For generations, the Irish took for granted that affordable, plentiful housing was the bedrock of their economic security and government policy. Not long ago, Ireland had one of the world’s highest rates of homeownership. The last several years have torn up those assumptions, leaving the country in the grip of a worsening housing crisis. Homeownership has dropped, evictions and homelessness have climbed sharply, surging demand for rental units has led to a shortage, and soaring rents…..
By BENJAMIN ORESKES STAFF WRITER JULY 10, 2019 5 AM With dirt, they can weigh hundreds of pounds. The makeshift planter boxes are Peter Mozgo’s creations — roughly 140 of them lined up on the sidewalk to prevent homeless people from pitching tents outside his business. Mozgo acquires the boxes from a Bell Gardens company that imports ginger, paints them firetruck red, pays $120 per cubic yard for dirt and then uses a $900 trailer to haul it all back to his neighborhood on…..
WHAT THE FRICK!Rhoda Bart lectures on dead Indians. At a homeless shelter. You gotta e kidding. Who cares ‘bout Doctor-Professor John Peabody Harrington and so-called salvage anthropology for extinct tribes. Saving lost cultures and such B.S. Big Whoop, who cares. -Signed Davy Crockett John Peabody Harrington was an anthropologist who might have lived right here at the shelter when the place was a hotel. Show some respect for Professor Bart’s lecture. -Signed Jenny Q. Listen Jenny Q, find yourself a…..
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I started wondering if homelessness is not just about poverty and living on the streets. What if homelessness can also mean feeling rootless and detached from others, regardless of income and station in life. I can imagine someone with money walking past someone sleeping on a sidewalk. That scene, for me, evokes a poem of sorts. A Homeless Soul-An Epitaph Designer suit with tanned ostrich tie: A cheat-sheet for a mind, thin-skin for a heart. Forever swatting at flies. I…..
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