by Pat Hartman | Jan 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Eric Sheptock, the media-savvy “Homeless Homeless Advocate,” has posted a 14-minute video detailing the events of 2011 in Washington, D.C. He gives a little of the back-story of homeless activism in the nation’s capitol, especially the years-long battle for the...
by Pat Hartman | Dec 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
The homeless community and the Occupy movement agree on many points: — The yawning chasm of wealth disparity is not to be tolerated.— People need jobs.— Corporate greed is at fault. (Maybe not all corporations. Greedy ones, definitely.)— Also guilty is the whole mess...
by Pat Hartman | Dec 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Barbara Ehrenreich published a very significant book called Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. More recently, she pointed out the similarities between the Occupy political protesters and people experiencing homelessness, who both engage in...
by Pat Hartman | Dec 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Big cities usually have apartment shortages. This is nothing new. But, nowadays, the prospective tenants come from a different demographic. Many of them are former (attempted) home buyers who couldn’t hold on. Some are people who, in a better economy, would be...
by Pat Hartman | Dec 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
The relationship between homelessness and business is multi-faceted. Traditionally, the union and the factory owner in a company town had a certain kind of relationship, and the relationship between an apprentice and his boss, the craftsman, was something...
