We're linking to the recent article in the Daily News, front page, which features an article about Susan Lest, who got housing through LA Family Housing. We're truly happy that Susan has had a short stay in her car and got help so quickly. She was a senior citizen effected by rising costs and the recession and lost her Valley Village apartment.
We know there are more funds and help available for seniors then there are for younger people, and we know of many people whose case manager put big pressure on them to "go mental" in order to get SSI or SSDI, who felt they had to cheat the system to get housing.
We caution you then, when reading journalist Susan Abram's peice, to consider that it comes off as a PR piece for LA Family Housing. Susan's experience is not the experience of every person that LA Family Housing helps. We know this, because we get a lot of complaints on the street and elsewhere.
4 comments:
You guys are just too nice to all these nonprofits that are in the homeless bizz. You should be blogging about the civil rights issues that homeless face. I was in my van for a couple years till it died and in a park after that. No one helped me. Why not? Because I was healthy and they wanted me to have work first. A family member finally took me in. Bud
This isn't a puff piece. The woman got help. Why shouldn't the organization get credit for that? Are you guy just jealous?
Anyone who can read what Expose Homelessness said would see that they are happy for the lady. The problem is that there are hundreds of Susans in Southern California. Old people living out their retirement until death in cars and vans. On my street there are a couple. And as someone who reads the newspapers Ive seen a number of articles about this non-profit that are clearly not journalism. I should know. I was a journalist. Myron
As an ex journalist I can say Ive seen a number of news articles about this nonprofit including recently The Jewish Journal that were clearly PR and not journalism. The blog people clearly stated that they were happy for this lady. The problem is that there are hundreds of Susans out there in their cars, seniors waiting for death, even taking chemo that have no real home and there isn't much help for them. I should know. We have two RVs on our street with seniors living in them. Myron
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