by Pat Hartman | Jul 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Many cities are on the “sweep” bandwagon, and newspapers across the country are full of “sweep” news. Somehow the idea has become popular that the best thing to do with people experiencing homelessness is keep moving them around. Citing the frequency of fights, fires,...
by Pat Hartman | Jul 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
For a lot of Americans, their mental picture of a person experiencing homelessness is a scruffy man standing on a corner with a cardboard sign. Few stop to consider that close to half of the homeless population is made up of people who probably won’t be seen in such a...
by Pat Hartman | Jul 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
The housed people of San Francisco, and the businesses they run and patronize, are upset. For one thing, they pay for the weekly removal of an estimated 12.5 tons of garbage from homeless encampments. That sounds like a lot, but it turns out to be not even a...
by Pat Hartman | Jun 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
The 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, available as an 80-page PDF file, is the most recent and comprehensive federal report on homelessness in America. In any discussion of homeless statistics it is important to remember that...
by Pat Hartman | Jun 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Granted, the situation described in Fort Worth, TX, in May was dire, with residents being attacked by “transients,” especially after a tent city in nearby Dallas was forcibly depopulated. But still, this headline is worded in a pretty offensive way: “Families,...
