BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE ON HOMELESS CENSUS

Here's an article on the Boston census of homeless, conducted in December 2009. We really wonder how any count of homeless can be accurate. Many homeless do not want to be known by the government.

Now that Senator Edward Kennedy has passed away and been replaced by a Republican, we wonder what life in Massachusetts will become for the poorest citizens of the United States.

DIRECTORY OF UNITED STATES GOVERNERS, REPRESENTATIVES, and SENATORS - BY STATE

Use this directory to get the names and addresses of those who represent YOU! If you are using a computer and have e-mail, you can contact many of these people without having paper and stamps or a post office box for mail!

CORNERSTONE MENTAL HEALTH - HEARTLESS or DO YOU HAVE INSURANCE?

WORD ON THE STREET

We're getting reports that CORNERSTONE MENTAL HEALTH, an agency that is supposed to be helping the mentally ill homeless, looses heart when it comes to those who should not be outpatients because they cannot supervise daily medications. They take in homeless, and they put them back out.

Cornerstone is paying Los Angeles Family Housing to house a few dozen of their out patients and there is no psychiatric nurse or staff to supervise. When the patient gets off their medication or their medication is not properly prescribed and they go crazy on the property, the security guards and staff at Los Angeles Family Housing are not trained to deal.

Some of these mentally ill homeless people are thrown out of LAFH and CORNERSTONE! It's a punishment because they cannot comply with taking drugs prescribed for them. Ah, are they mentally ill or aren't they?

We hope that CORNERSTONE MENTAL HEALTH and places like it, who like to bill the county and the state medical programs or a patient's own insurance, will ask themselves why they are in the HOMELESS BUSINESS?

UPDATE: Thanks Lucy for telling us that this post was not visible. WE ALSO HAVE AN UPDATE: WE'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT OF COMPLAINS ABOUT CORNERSTONE so we plan to post a new one soon about this place.

PATH in NEW YORK THE VICIOUS CYCLE

Yes we know - having to carry bags wherever you go... exhausting!

HOMELESS FAMILY (JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA) BLOG ADDED TODAY

Linking now to a blog by a homeless family in Jacksonville Florida. We see you are enduring a shelter to get housing!

GEORGE CARLIN (GOD BLESS HIM!) ON HOMELESSNESS NOT IN MY BACKYARD

DEVIL PAT ROBERTSON SAYS HAITI STRUCK BY QUAKE DUE TO PACT WITH THE DEVIL!

We at BY THE HOMELESS FOR THE HOMELESS send our hearts out to our homeless brothers and sisters in Haiti, probably the poorest country on this side of the earth! Many, hundreds of thousands, have died, and many others who have lived poor for a very long time are homeless. Even the American Embassy and the Presidential Palace are destroyed.

Now we are posting a link to the LA Times Article about Pat Robertson, Conservative Christian who thinks that God destroyed Haiti because Haitians have a pact with the devil!

It's just this kind of deplorable "you get what you deserve attitude" that also stops many people from having heart for us homeless on the continent of North America - the United States!

Tell you who ought to GO TO HELL!
Pat Robertson and his ilk!

DENVER HOMELESS BUILDING APARTMENTS FOR HOMELESS

Here's a news article from a few weeks back from THE DENVER POST, via Yahoo Internet news. Click on the title above to get to the article...

"The Uptown Lofts in Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood will be a product of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless' Renaissance Works jobs program, which provides street people with construction jobs.

"This is about constructing a building, but more importantly, it's about constructing hope," Ritter said."

BLOOD BANKS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THOSE WITHOUT A PERMANENT ADDRESS

Healthy homeless people who are willing to donate blood for the going rate, which may be about $50 a visit, are often discriminated against, not because they show up dirty, or because they appear mentally ill or drunk, BUT SIMPLY BECAUSE POST OFFICE BOX's and DPS Boxes are NOT acceptable as addresses.

THIS DESPITE THE FACT THAT BLOOD MUST BE TESTED TO BE ACCEPTED and that there are thousands upon thousands of destitute people who remain healthy enough - HIV free - to donate blood.

It may be that there are so many already in homes and apartments that are willing to give blood, but funny, blood drives where no one is paid do seem to accept the blood of those who show.

IF YOU KNOW OF BLOOD BANKS that accept post office boxes as addresses, Please Let Us Know!

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THE DOORS - WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE