by Pat Hartman | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Alert readers of House the Homeless blog have noticed that toilets have been a theme. We haven’t even gotten into showers or laundry, because there is so much to say about the most basic of sanitary facilities. Latrines, and the means to wash hands after using them,...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
A news article about events in Denver summarized the situation in many American cities: Currently, urinating outside is an inevitability for people who are homeless, yet it exposes them to police citation and ticketing. What is more, when an individual fails to pay a...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
House the Homeless has been discussing the absurdity and the inhumanity of depriving people of toilets, and even worse, the insanity of criminalizing natural functions. The subject frequently comes up in the press. Earlier this week Daily Mail.com, always an...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
In 2014, a California town of Manteca announced its intention to outlaw virtually everything that a person experiencing homelessness could possibly need or do. An ordinance was put in place to forbid the removal of shopping carts from stores, and, granted, that is...
by Pat Hartman | Jul 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Incredibly, people don’t seem to understand the repercussions that a criminal conviction can have on a person’s life. Those who perceive “the homeless” as members of a different species don’t seem to stop and think at all. Their war cry is “Get a job!” — yet they...
