"THE WOMEN ARE ALL WHORES!"
We're not stupid. We know that many homeless do engage in prostitution at some point. Is it really a choice? Male and Female. All ages. Children. Many but not all.
Homeless women desperately need safe places to go where they do not have to prostitute in order to earn money for themselves or their families or their men. Drugs and alcohol are usually involved. Addiction. Abuse.
WHAT CAME FIRST? POVERTY and DESPERATION or HOMELESSNESS?
TRUE WEALTH = CHOICE
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
THANKSGIVING DAY YOU ARE SURE TO EAT
Turkey, turkey, and more turkey...
This is to those of you who are holing up in coffee houses today, on your laptops, making that tea bag last three refills. The libraries are closed for the day, or two, and the parks may offer a feed here and there.
This is to those of you who are holing up in coffee houses today, on your laptops, making that tea bag last three refills. The libraries are closed for the day, or two, and the parks may offer a feed here and there.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
BLOG FROM THE EXECUTIVES POINT OF VIEW
LA's Homeless Blog is now inforUm Online Journal
An Inside Perspective on HomelessnessProduced by Joel John Roberts, CEO of PATH Partners
WE'RE LETTING OUT READERS KNOW ABOUT THIS CHANGE and LINKING TO THIS BLOG. However, let it be understood that this blog is BY THE HOMELESS FOR THE HOMELESS, and we do not endorse the opinions of executives who run organizations we may also have criticisms of.
An Inside Perspective on HomelessnessProduced by Joel John Roberts, CEO of PATH Partners
WE'RE LETTING OUT READERS KNOW ABOUT THIS CHANGE and LINKING TO THIS BLOG. However, let it be understood that this blog is BY THE HOMELESS FOR THE HOMELESS, and we do not endorse the opinions of executives who run organizations we may also have criticisms of.
Monday, November 23, 2009
JULIE CRUENBAUM FAX, The JEWISH JOURNAL, on SOVA
In the November 20-26, 2009 Jewish Journal of Los Angeles
"About 1.2 million people in Los Angeles County are food insecure..."
ONE PERSON IN 8 in Los Angeles faces hunger.
"According to the 2003 UCLA Health Policy Research study that analyzed data from California Health Interview Survey. The study DID NOT COUNT CHILDREN, HOMELESS, and THOSE WITHOUT PHONES, estimated at around 400,000."
SOVA link above. SOVA is a Jewish word that means eat to be satisfied.
"About 1.2 million people in Los Angeles County are food insecure..."
ONE PERSON IN 8 in Los Angeles faces hunger.
"According to the 2003 UCLA Health Policy Research study that analyzed data from California Health Interview Survey. The study DID NOT COUNT CHILDREN, HOMELESS, and THOSE WITHOUT PHONES, estimated at around 400,000."
SOVA link above. SOVA is a Jewish word that means eat to be satisfied.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
CHRISTMAS CHARITIES and THANKSGIVING FEEDS to the HOMELESS forget us the REST OF THE YEAR!
CHRISTMAS and THANKSGIVING!
Two days out of 365 that you are pretty much guaranteed to have a hot meal when your homeless, as long as you don't mind listening to a heavy dose of preaching along with your dessert.
"Missions" capitalize on images of raggedy street people hunkering down at a common table for some turkey, when they do their solitications for funds. HEY it's TAX DEDUCTIBLE so pull out your wallet!
In some cities the homeless spend their days on public buses and on foot, circulating to HOMELESS FEEDS, set up in parks, churches, and shelters, and if they have a Food Stamp card too, they will not likely feel the pangs of hunger ever.
For many homeless, churches also offer clothing give outs, and personal product giveaways. But you may have to stand being prayed over before you can leave with your loot.
Stores that provide for food banks must also be getting huge TAX DEDUCTIONS for all those stale loaves of bread and old pies they donate.
FOR THE HOMELESS FOOD IS THE EASY PART... It's SHELTER THAT'S DIFFICULT!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
LA HOMELESS BLOG has new address
Click on the title to go there...
I noted a blog about years of words... tired of words...
Written Words Communicate and on the Internet that is AROUND THE WORLD!
I noted a blog about years of words... tired of words...
Written Words Communicate and on the Internet that is AROUND THE WORLD!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
SECTION 8 HOUSING STALL MAKES SHELTERS VICIOUS
VICIOUS SHELTER CASE MANAGERS are finding ways to get rid of residents who may have qualified for Section 8, but who they can get rid of anyway, in order to keep their numbers up.
Shelters are playing a game of getting rid of residents to open beds for other homeless people. We can understand that no one wants to live at a shelter forever, but if you were taken in with the promise of housing and they can no longer provide, whose fault is that? The shelter case managers are throwing people who have proven themselves thus far back into the same circumstances they came from - or worse.
The gamble is that some of these residents will after all be able to go live with family or friends or find a room for rent somewhere, when they were saving money to get into a discounted apartment.
WE SUSPECT THESE PEOPLE WILL BE BACK TO STREET STATUS SOON. THAT'S BECAUSE IF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH FAMILY OR FRIENDS WAS GOOD THEY PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON THE STREET IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Section 8 housing that is paid for by the Federal government, such as for Veterans, is still funded. State Section 8 is in as much trouble as the state it's in.
Shelters are playing a game of getting rid of residents to open beds for other homeless people. We can understand that no one wants to live at a shelter forever, but if you were taken in with the promise of housing and they can no longer provide, whose fault is that? The shelter case managers are throwing people who have proven themselves thus far back into the same circumstances they came from - or worse.
The gamble is that some of these residents will after all be able to go live with family or friends or find a room for rent somewhere, when they were saving money to get into a discounted apartment.
WE SUSPECT THESE PEOPLE WILL BE BACK TO STREET STATUS SOON. THAT'S BECAUSE IF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH FAMILY OR FRIENDS WAS GOOD THEY PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON THE STREET IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Section 8 housing that is paid for by the Federal government, such as for Veterans, is still funded. State Section 8 is in as much trouble as the state it's in.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
WORD ON THE STREET : PATH GLENDALE IS DOING TOO MANY INTAKES, MAKING TOO MANY FALSE STATEMENTS TO GET HOMELESS PEOPLE TO INTAKE WITH THEM !
Since we have heard this from at least three separate women who say their experiences encompass between 2 years and a couple months ago, we are posting a complaint from the street about PATH-Glendale.
According to our sources on the street PATH's GLENDALE location will intake you any time, and they allude to being able to provide you shelter on the phone. THEY CANNOT SERVE NEAR AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY HAVE TRAVELING ALL THE WAY OVER THERE!
According to M, who was interviewed in Sun Valley Park, "That receptionist has the same rap. She's a liar. I'm not the only one who has used their last 5 bucks to get all the way over there, thinking they were going to shelter me, and nothing."
We think the receptionist is giving the same assuring rap to all callers, just to get them in there for the intake, and management has to know, they cannot offer help to the majority of applicants.
We hear it's because they get money every time they intake, even if they do not serve you. (Anyone at Path want to say yes or no to that?)
Once you have done their paperwork it's in the computer and NOW YOU ARE A PART OF A COUNTY-WIDE SYSTEM that recognizes you as homeless. PART OF A PUBLIC DATABASE! Go find a job!
Six months of the year the only shelter they can send you to is their own, which serves under 50 men, women, and children with an emphasis on people who are working. As soon as the Glendale Armory opens, which will be November 1st, that's where you are likely to go and where they will swarm looking for people who are working. After that they will have you come in or their "outreach" will even drive over and get you and your bags, saying "worst case scenario you'll be at the Armory."
THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE THE MAJORITY END UP!
According to our sources on the street PATH's GLENDALE location will intake you any time, and they allude to being able to provide you shelter on the phone. THEY CANNOT SERVE NEAR AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY HAVE TRAVELING ALL THE WAY OVER THERE!
According to M, who was interviewed in Sun Valley Park, "That receptionist has the same rap. She's a liar. I'm not the only one who has used their last 5 bucks to get all the way over there, thinking they were going to shelter me, and nothing."
We think the receptionist is giving the same assuring rap to all callers, just to get them in there for the intake, and management has to know, they cannot offer help to the majority of applicants.
We hear it's because they get money every time they intake, even if they do not serve you. (Anyone at Path want to say yes or no to that?)
Once you have done their paperwork it's in the computer and NOW YOU ARE A PART OF A COUNTY-WIDE SYSTEM that recognizes you as homeless. PART OF A PUBLIC DATABASE! Go find a job!
Six months of the year the only shelter they can send you to is their own, which serves under 50 men, women, and children with an emphasis on people who are working. As soon as the Glendale Armory opens, which will be November 1st, that's where you are likely to go and where they will swarm looking for people who are working. After that they will have you come in or their "outreach" will even drive over and get you and your bags, saying "worst case scenario you'll be at the Armory."
THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE THE MAJORITY END UP!
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