Homeless Veterans Awareness Attracts Heroism

As we know, it’s National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, and nobody could say that the plight of homeless veterans does not get media attention. Homeless vets are in the news all the time, and we can only hope that awareness is actually being raised. When...

HPCR – There Must Be a Better Way

This might be the quotation of the year: The City of New Orleans cleared out the camp to reduce homelessness in the city. Is that what they think they’re doing? Amazing. Reduce homelessness by clearing out camps. Who knew the answer could be so simple?...

First-Person Homeless: A Few More Stories

The book we see over on the right-hand side of the page here, Looking Up at the Bottom Line, is really several books in one. It’s kind of an activist-how-to manual, as well as a history of the struggle for social justice as carried out (non-violently and always...

First-Person Homeless: A Few Stories

There are three kinds of writing about the lives of people experiencing homelessness, and, naturally, the most authentic kind is a story told in the first person. When a street person tells the stories of other street people, that should count too, in the...