by Pat Hartman | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
It was Brother Michael of the Morning Star Monastery who said it, in Austin, Texas, back in 1996. House the Homeless and many others were trying to repeal the then brand-new No Camping Homeless Ordinance. The City Council had passed this atrocity in the...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Again this year, 3.5 million people will experience homelessness in America. In the land of milk and honey, this is unconscionable. Let’s examine the word homelessness for a moment. Who are the homeless? Well, clearly they come from all walks of life:...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Bobby and Amanda Herring, along with a number of volunteers, used to feed some of the people experiencing homelessness in downtown Houston, Texas. For about a year, they dispensed between 60 and 120 meals a day, made from food donated by individuals and...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Economic homelessness is an important concept in the overall picture examined in Looking Up At the Bottom Line. The economic homeless are the working poor who have some kind of a job, but nothing close to a living wage that would provide, for instance,...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Is there a website called Harass the Homeless? A complete instruction manual for creating extra misery in the lives of the least fortunate and least capable people in a society? There might as well be, because in many nations that consider themselves quite...
