by Pat Hartman | Apr 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Compared to some other countries, America cares well for its military veterans—which is similar to being the prettiest corpse in the morgue, because any illusion of superiority is only relative. In absolute terms however, vets often find that service in the armed...
by Pat Hartman | Apr 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
America is full of empty houses, a circumstance that House the Homelesshas been exploring to figure out why people can’t live in them. A Cleveland, Ohio, man took that question from theory to reality when he began to practice urban homesteading six...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
The illustration on this page is, like so many internet memes, an oversimplification. Socially conscious commentators like to point out that there are enough empty properties that each homeless person in America could have anywhere between 6 and 22 of them. Of course...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dozens of news stories show up daily in answer to the alert term “homeless.” Every now and then, one comes along that incorporates such classic elements that it would make the perfect case study for interstellar sociologists to puzzle over. Visualize a teacher from...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
The important thing about this news story is not its timeliness, or the people’s race, or age, or which American state, or any other mundane detail. This story is a stand-in for scenarios taking place all over the country every day. It goes beyond generic into...
