Wednesday, March 24, 2010
SLO HOMELESS BLOG LINK HERE!
Another great blog by a homeless man.... We're so encouraged to see more homeless blogging! Great links on this one too!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
AMPLE HARVEST FOOD BANK LISTS
Backyard gardeners who have MORE are sharing with the poor.
YOU CAN DONATE PRODUCE. HELP END HUNGER. OR HELP PEOPLE EAT BETTER!
YOU CAN ALSO LIST YOUR FOOD PANTRY HERE! OVER 1500 are listed! NEW LINK INSTALLED JANUARY 2011
"An estimated 100 billion pounds of food, enough to totally eliminate hunger, is thrown away annually in the United States."
YOU CAN DONATE PRODUCE. HELP END HUNGER. OR HELP PEOPLE EAT BETTER!
YOU CAN ALSO LIST YOUR FOOD PANTRY HERE! OVER 1500 are listed! NEW LINK INSTALLED JANUARY 2011
"An estimated 100 billion pounds of food, enough to totally eliminate hunger, is thrown away annually in the United States."
Friday, March 19, 2010
STEREOTYPES OF THE HOMELESS (e-mailed to us and reprinted here!)
"The stereotype that holds the most about homeless people is that there is a lot of mental illness, physical illness, and/or drug use among us. I have to agree.
When I lost my job and my apartment and had to go to a cold weather shelter, I was in a state of shock. Eventually I got into a Transitional living place but the conditions are terrible. I can't get used to the other people living there, many who are mentally ill. My health continues to get worse because of stress. If I had a car, I think I would do better living in it."
"Randy Andy" - Orange County, California
When I lost my job and my apartment and had to go to a cold weather shelter, I was in a state of shock. Eventually I got into a Transitional living place but the conditions are terrible. I can't get used to the other people living there, many who are mentally ill. My health continues to get worse because of stress. If I had a car, I think I would do better living in it."
"Randy Andy" - Orange County, California
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
WERE YOU USING FOOD BANKS BEFORE YOU BECAME HOMELESS
Were you using Foodbanks to suppliment your Foodstamps or other funds for food before you became homeless?
Saturday, March 13, 2010
A Beautiful Blog By and For Homeless People !
Are you surprised to get to a blog by and for homeless people and see that it's PRETTY? When we planned this blog (actually we were thinking more in terms of a good old fashioned Underground Newspaper) we knew we wanted to portray the the transient but ever changing life of a homeless individual. Yes we do believe many of us will make it out of homelessness!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
LA HUNGER SEDER 2010 at VALLEY BETH SHALOM
This is a benefit at $18 a plate for those of you who have it... so that those of us who don't can be fed. The event is announced in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, and there will be a live webcast at www.JEWISHJOURNAL.com.
EVENT DATE is MARCH 24th, 2010 at 7 PM. Benefits SOVA Food program.
"LA IS THE HUNGER CAPITAL OF THE US, what would it take to feed everyone?
e-mail lahungerseder@gmail.com
VALLEY BETH SHALOM is at
15730 Ventura Blvd. Encino, California 91436
"Arny" reported that though he has gotten housing through the Section 8 housing program while a resident at Los Angeles Family Housing, he has long used SOVA as a food resource when he cannot afford to buy enough of his own.
EVENT DATE is MARCH 24th, 2010 at 7 PM. Benefits SOVA Food program.
"LA IS THE HUNGER CAPITAL OF THE US, what would it take to feed everyone?
e-mail lahungerseder@gmail.com
VALLEY BETH SHALOM is at
15730 Ventura Blvd. Encino, California 91436
"Arny" reported that though he has gotten housing through the Section 8 housing program while a resident at Los Angeles Family Housing, he has long used SOVA as a food resource when he cannot afford to buy enough of his own.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
DO YOU USE E-MAIL TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HOMELESS
WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HOMELESS?
DO YOU LIE ABOUT WHERE YOU LIVE TO THEM ?
DO YOU LIE ABOUT WHERE YOU LIVE TO THEM ?
Sunday, February 28, 2010
EUGENE OREGON has HOMELESS NEWS PAPER
Link now to the news article about this new Homeless Owned and Operated Newspaper!
"Now, Eugene has its very own 'street paper' called the Oregon Vagabond. Financed by volunteers, the first issue came out just this week (January 4, 2010) The writers, photographers and the vendors of the Vagabond are from the homeless community."
Great Going EUGENE OREGON!
"Now, Eugene has its very own 'street paper' called the Oregon Vagabond. Financed by volunteers, the first issue came out just this week (January 4, 2010) The writers, photographers and the vendors of the Vagabond are from the homeless community."
Great Going EUGENE OREGON!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
SANTA MONICA COUNT SHOWS DROP IN HOMELESS
"The 2010 homeless count, conducted Jan. 27, indicated that 742 people were homeless: 264 living on the streets, 423 in shelters or institutions and 55 in cars or encampments."
Martha Groves in Santa Monica for the LA Times LINK TO FULL ARTICLE HERE
Martha Groves in Santa Monica for the LA Times LINK TO FULL ARTICLE HERE
Saturday, February 20, 2010
CADILLAC MAN'S BOOK : LAND OF THER LOST SOULS
Mark Jacobson writes about CADILLAC MAN, who has his book LAND OF THE LOST SOULS, out, and we read it! He is now living half in and half out with his girlfriend Carol.
"The journey takes about 25 minutes, from the apartment Cadillac now shares with his girlfriend, Carol, to the last stop on the N in Astoria, where he lived under the 33rd Street viaduct of the Hell Gate Bridge until recently. It was under the viaduct that the Cadillac Man, who got his unbeatable street name after being hit by three different Cadillacs in the mid-nineties, wrote his book, Land of the Lost Souls, which will be published this month by Bloomsbury."
OUR OPINION is that the scenes that Cadillac Man chooses to write about are probably some of the more important and telling events of his homelessness, and they are familiar to us!
WE WISH CADILLAC MAN and CAROL the best... and it goes to show... you can find love on the streets!
"The journey takes about 25 minutes, from the apartment Cadillac now shares with his girlfriend, Carol, to the last stop on the N in Astoria, where he lived under the 33rd Street viaduct of the Hell Gate Bridge until recently. It was under the viaduct that the Cadillac Man, who got his unbeatable street name after being hit by three different Cadillacs in the mid-nineties, wrote his book, Land of the Lost Souls, which will be published this month by Bloomsbury."
OUR OPINION is that the scenes that Cadillac Man chooses to write about are probably some of the more important and telling events of his homelessness, and they are familiar to us!
WE WISH CADILLAC MAN and CAROL the best... and it goes to show... you can find love on the streets!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
SO! ELLE ACTUALLY HIRED A "HOMELESS" WOMAN!
Link to this August article about ELLE fashion magazine and the fuss that they hired a homeloess woman writer....
"My name is Bri and I’m 24 years old. I learned on August 24 that I had been offered an internship with E. Jean Carroll, advice columnist at ELLE magazine and all-around kick-ass woman. This was simultaneously surprising, exhilarating, and terrifying, as I have been homeless and living in a beat-up old trailer for the past six months. My screaming, bouncing, and erratic flailing awoke my sleeping boyfriend in a panic. He was sure that something terrible had happened. In the previous two weeks, I had lost my employment, again, (I was laid off from my full-time job in July 2008 and have vacillated between temporary assignments and unemployment since then), my trailer had been towed with all my belongings inside of it (I’m currently living in a beat-up, non-running RV on a dusty back lot in Riverside, and my trailer is still in the impound yard where the storage fee is increasing $80 per day), and soon after my car had broken down. I poured the small cushion of accrued savings that was meant to help me re-stabilize into fixing the car. We were in dire straits and had drained our last financial resources. What else could possibly go wrong?" Brianna Karp
OK HERE IS OUR RESPONSE TO ALL THE Fuss !
A. PLENTY MORE CAN GO WRONG. Many of us went from car to street.
We are happy that Brianna got a job.
Brianna is young and hopefully homelessness was just a glitch and she will not spend the rest of her life being labled "homeless."
She was of the UPPER CLASS OF HOMELESSNESS living in a trailer or RV.
"My name is Bri and I’m 24 years old. I learned on August 24 that I had been offered an internship with E. Jean Carroll, advice columnist at ELLE magazine and all-around kick-ass woman. This was simultaneously surprising, exhilarating, and terrifying, as I have been homeless and living in a beat-up old trailer for the past six months. My screaming, bouncing, and erratic flailing awoke my sleeping boyfriend in a panic. He was sure that something terrible had happened. In the previous two weeks, I had lost my employment, again, (I was laid off from my full-time job in July 2008 and have vacillated between temporary assignments and unemployment since then), my trailer had been towed with all my belongings inside of it (I’m currently living in a beat-up, non-running RV on a dusty back lot in Riverside, and my trailer is still in the impound yard where the storage fee is increasing $80 per day), and soon after my car had broken down. I poured the small cushion of accrued savings that was meant to help me re-stabilize into fixing the car. We were in dire straits and had drained our last financial resources. What else could possibly go wrong?" Brianna Karp
OK HERE IS OUR RESPONSE TO ALL THE Fuss !
A. PLENTY MORE CAN GO WRONG. Many of us went from car to street.
We are happy that Brianna got a job.
Brianna is young and hopefully homelessness was just a glitch and she will not spend the rest of her life being labled "homeless."
She was of the UPPER CLASS OF HOMELESSNESS living in a trailer or RV.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
VALENTINES DAY can be LONELY for HOMELESS SINGLES
We want to wish all you homeless readers a decent Valentine's Day... We know... at some cold weather shelters you may be given a little heart shaped chocolate... something...
Homelessness is tough and it's especially tough when you're new at it and haven't made any street friends, or shelter friends, and you've been abandoned by family, old friends, your ex-husband or wife.
What comes first? Abandonment or being on the street?
This winter has been really hard on people. Blizzards covering Washington and snow heading further South than it has in years. Keep warm. Stay indoors when you can peaceably.
Homelessness is tough and it's especially tough when you're new at it and haven't made any street friends, or shelter friends, and you've been abandoned by family, old friends, your ex-husband or wife.
What comes first? Abandonment or being on the street?
This winter has been really hard on people. Blizzards covering Washington and snow heading further South than it has in years. Keep warm. Stay indoors when you can peaceably.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT on POVERTY HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS 1937
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT on POVERTY Inaugural Address
I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill nourished." Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Inaugural Address, 20 January 1937
I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill nourished." Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Inaugural Address, 20 January 1937
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
JOHNNY RIVERS - POSITIVELY 4th STREET
It's Valentine's Day and for many homeless a day of mourning. This song, written by Bob Dylan, and also recorded here by Johnny Rivers, has lyrics that a lot of us have felt like saying to people who have abandoned us when we lost everything.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING
WHY NOT ASK HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED AT LAFH if your donations will really be well spent? This is an advertisement. It is meant to solicit funds from you? We are currently based in Southern California and we hear complaints about LAFH's shelter on the streets.
Friday, January 29, 2010
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.
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.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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!
Friday, January 22, 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
PATH in NEW YORK THE VICIOUS CYCLE
Yes we know - having to carry bags wherever you go... exhausting!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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!
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!
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