by Pat Hartman | May 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
For Alternet.org, Ebony Slaughter-Johnson wrote: In communities all over the country, police are strongly incentivized — by federal grant conditions and local budgetary constraints alike — to make arrests and issue fines as frequently as possible. After such a...
by Pat Hartman | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, published another book 80 years ago called The Road to Wigan Pier, about the terrible conditions in England just after the Great Depression. What does it remind you of? In the industrial areas the mere difficulty of...
by Pat Hartman | Apr 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
The statehouse in Sacramento, California (pictured), is surrounded by a 40-acre park, one of the luckiest parks in the world because, for over two decades, caring for it was the obsession of a chronically homeless man named Randall Koroush. Journalist Cynthia Hubert...
by Pat Hartman | Apr 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
The National Day of Action for Housing took place this year on April 1, and was covered for Austin’s American Statesman by Elizabeth Findell on the front page of the Metro section. (The picture on this page is by Sue Watlov Phillips, in Washington DC.) In Austin, a...
by Pat Hartman | Apr 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Recently, House the Homeless looked at the situation in Washington, D.C., where shady contractors pit people experiencing homelessness against evictees (i.e., the newly homeless), and it’s ugly. In any city, there are bound to be a few jobs specially allotted to, or...
