OPINION BY DC.
Thanksgiving is the BIG HOMELESS HOLIDAY. This is the day that homeless charities focus on and it's maybe bigger than Christmas since Christmas is for Christians and Thanksgiving is for everyone. Pictures of Homeless People who Fit The Stereotype - usually bearded men from skid row who are on the pavement - are circulated and, though those people are part of our population, they are also the stereotype.
It's that stereotype that holds a lot of other homeless people down. As soon as people hear "homeless" they think you spent time on the street as a drug addict. So while the charities collect a lot of money based on that stereotype, many of us find THERE ARE NO SERVICES FOR THOSE OF US WHO WERE NEVER ON THE STREET, NEVER ON DRUGS, WHO DO NOT HAVE CRIMINAL RECORDS.
Finding a shelter that gives a shit about you is even more difficult if you are CHILDLESS and SINGLE! There is so much focus on familys, women with children, abused women.
So today I'm thankful that I'm not on the street. I'm also frustrated that there isn't much out there for homeless people like me.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
2011 IS THIS THE YEAR YOU'LL BECOME HOUSED?
Is this the year you'll beat the odds and get off the street?
At the end of this year we felt, because we never watch statistics and get few comments (though we heard that about one percent of all readers leave a comment) that maybe we should give up on this blog. We aren't sure we can do a good job because none of us own computers and have to stand in line to use public terminals at libraries and other places to post.
We were thinking about how slow going our lives are because we do not own personal computers. And because we do not have permanent housing, we are so slow at getting things we need to do done... So many of us roam from feed to feed, or don't have it together to get GR, and those of us who have to walk or take the bus remember when we owned cars and could get more done on one Saturday than it takes us weeks to do.
No, we don't know when any of us will have permanent housing. Some of us are sheltered and some of us are not. But maybe we are the elite of the homeless because we know how to write and type, we know how to use computers well enough to blog, and we have our witts about us, though some of us are depressed or outright crazy.
How can we be of greater service to our homeless community and to those who are reading us to understand homelessness better?
One of our options is to concentrate on CALIFORNIA... but we now that homelessness is not a California problem or even a United States of America problem...
It is a problem of poverty around the world.
At the end of this year we felt, because we never watch statistics and get few comments (though we heard that about one percent of all readers leave a comment) that maybe we should give up on this blog. We aren't sure we can do a good job because none of us own computers and have to stand in line to use public terminals at libraries and other places to post.
We were thinking about how slow going our lives are because we do not own personal computers. And because we do not have permanent housing, we are so slow at getting things we need to do done... So many of us roam from feed to feed, or don't have it together to get GR, and those of us who have to walk or take the bus remember when we owned cars and could get more done on one Saturday than it takes us weeks to do.
No, we don't know when any of us will have permanent housing. Some of us are sheltered and some of us are not. But maybe we are the elite of the homeless because we know how to write and type, we know how to use computers well enough to blog, and we have our witts about us, though some of us are depressed or outright crazy.
How can we be of greater service to our homeless community and to those who are reading us to understand homelessness better?
One of our options is to concentrate on CALIFORNIA... but we now that homelessness is not a California problem or even a United States of America problem...
It is a problem of poverty around the world.
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