Conrad Hilton Foundation has pledged 9 more million in 2010 to create 2500 new places to live in Los Angeles for the long term homeless.
We appreciate that, but we also want the foundation to hold those organizations that have received funds to ACCOUNTABILITY.
Those of us in shelters often find that life in the shelter is difficult - even hellish. And shelters are where we wait for that permanent housing in some form:
"Rent Free" Caregiving assignments as long as the person we are assigned to is alive. Caregiving is one of the ways some of us became homeless.
Being forced or heavily pressured into room mating with other people we meet at the shelter.
And when you aren't compatible and one person gets arrested or goes back to drug use, then what?
Single Room Occupancies (SRO'S) like boarding houses often with no cooking and shared bathrooms. (So your food costs are high and diet is unhealthy.)
ALL THREE OF THESE ARE CONSIDERED "PERMANENT PLACEMENT" and then they claim they want to help us end our (endless) "cycle of homelessness."
At best, a liveable clean single costing, 1/3rd our fixed income is achievable.
But let's also NOT FORGET about holding the BIG DEVELOPERS who take down low income housing PROMISING a certain number of section 8 or low income units, who interpret that to mean A COUPLE THOUSAND A MONTH!
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