Three Cities – Conclusion

by | Sep 29, 2011 | Uncategorized

Two years ago, the print publication High Country News published a significant story by Scott Bransford that spotlighted two California cities, Fresno and Ontario, and one Oregon city, Portland. This has been about the tent cities in each of...

The Economic-Violence Connection

by | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized

“This screams for Living Wages,” was the reaction of Richard R. Troxell on learning about a study about child abuse, conducted by Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and three other children’s hospitals, and we will return to that remark presently. The study in...

Three Cities and Scott Bransford, Part 2

by | Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized

We started a then-and-now comparison of homelessness in three American cities, the ones written about by Scott Bransford in “Tarp Nation: Squatter Villages and Tent Cities in the Economic Crisis.” One of the towns was Fresno, California, with its illicit...

Homeless Shelters Encounter Hard Times

by | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized

Thanks to Andrea Ball, who writes for The Austin American-Statesman, the public is very well informed about homeless issues in the Texas capital. Case in point: her meticulous description of the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) at a...

Three Cities and Scott Bransford, Part 1

by | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized

Two years ago, the print publication High Country News published a long and detailed story by Scott Bransford, concentrating on tent cities in three American cities. Fresno, California, was rated by the Brookings Institution (a public policy institute, or...