The Austin city council recently voted to put on its May ballot a vote to reinstate the no camping ban including the no sit/no lie ordinances. Now is the time to contact your mayor and council members particularly those who have supported decriminalizing homelessness, such as Mayor Adler, Kathy Tovo, Ann Kitchen, Greg Casar, Sabino Renteria, and others, we pray.
First call to action is cold weather shelter. Anyone that reads this, our urgent plea is to email our mayor and city council in this urgent time of cold weather. House the Homeless is encouraging to use the Convention Center or other alternatives sites that are already over burdened due to Covid-19 or at capacity.
A second call to action is to not displace unsheltered neighbors from bridges and the four major camp areas without having an immediate plan for alternative shelter/housing.
Finally, advise your mayor and council members that the wording for the May ballot regarding reinstating a camping ban must consider that those with disabilities, the aged, and in fact anyone with no place to go. The no sit/no lie ordinance is absolutely inhumane and unconscionable we must have at least 15 minute respites particularly for those with disabilities and make other provisions.
Federal resolve is insufficient; highly recommend Universal Living Wage formula indexed on the cost of housing wherever the person lives and works.
“Housing is a basic human right. Homelessness is not inevitable. We can do better.
Designed to reenergize local, state, and national advocacy, Housing NOW! 2020 provides a platform for advocates to come together to demand a significant increase in federal funding that keeps pace with rising local needs.”
Click the link below to learn about the Housing Now legislative campaign and/or join the National Coalition for the Homeless in their efforts to house the homeless.
AAS, “United Effort Needed to House Austin’s Homeless,” ‘this goal can only be reached if the city works aggressively with non-profits and private developers to make more low-income housing available across the city…Organizations, philanthropists and everyday people need to chip in.’
Mayor Adler says we should House the Homeless… we agree.
AAS calls everyone to the table, except businesses, who fail to pay basic living wages. This causes working people to live on our streets. We cannot leave businesses (the beneficiary of the minimum wage workers) out of the equation. Read- Looking Up at the Bottom Line…The Struggle for the Living Wage.
We continue to act as shills for robber barons. Businesses use workers to do their work and leave them only enough money to sleep under bridges, then tosses the burden to create housing, onto the back of taxpayers. Business must pay living wages. Taxpayers will help the other 48%, the disabled homeless.
Richard R. Troxell
National Education Director for House the Homeless.
It all started in 2013, when the Board of Directors of House the Homeless happened to be talking about how good art can start conversations. Co-founder and President Richard R. Troxell had an idea about how to put a positive face on homelessness — with a sculpture of multiple figures that tells a story about their homelessness. His daughter Colleen had painted oil portraits of people experiencing homelessness, so the concept seemed like a natural.
The Austin American-Statesman heard about the project and gave it front-page coverage (twice). A sculptor from Scotland called, and so did one from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. This was Timothy P. Schmalz, who happened to be rather busy at the time, what with meeting Pope Francis and all. He traveled to Rome to present a cast of his sculpture “Jesus the Homeless” which is installed outside the Papal Office of Charities.
Around the world, many other copies exist of this portrayal of Christ as an anonymous figure asleep on a park bench. The wounded feet sticking out from under the blanket give away the secret. The work has caused plenty of comment, which is only fitting, as it was intended to be provocative and challenging. “Homeless Jesus,” as it is also known, is supported by a Bible verse, Matthew 25:40, whose broadest interpretation is that when someone does a kind deed to help another person, it’s the same as doing a good turn for Jesus himself.
In December of 2013 Schmalz wrote about how he had spent the last 25 years “visually translating important truths of the Bible into visual signs for people” because a visual representation can often be more powerful than the written or spoken word. He said,
The homeless project that Richard is planning will tell a much needed story at a glance to all that pass by. Richard Troxell’s vision provides a great starting place for a journey that has the potential to lead to a great work of art. This sculpture will show that ALL are valued in our democratic society and that ALL should be respected.
As an artist, I am often challenged with taking what is invisible and making it visible, subject matter such as the soul, the spirit, love, etc. Today, the homeless in our society are likewise often invisible. This sculpture will help change this and in turn, help build a more compassionate society.
Schmalz of course had many projects in hand, but he was intrigued by Troxell’s own sculpture and he had been insistent that he be part of sculpting Troxell’s vision. (Locally, Richard had studied for a year with Steve Dubov of Austin’s Atelier 3-D, making four different starts on the sculpted figures.) Timothy wanted the collaboration to happen so badly that he even came in at a quarter of the usual cost.
During the next four and a half years, the two participated in something new for them both — a long-distance collaboration. (The maestro’s business partner, Tony Frey, is also to be thanked in this endeavor.) Fundraising efforts were launched, and an event at Austin’s Umlauf Sculpture Garden saw the unveiling of a two-foot-tall version of The Home Coming.
Originally, the hope was to place the sculpture at Austin’s Homeless Memorial crafted by Troxell years before on the shore of Lady Bird Lake. In the summer of 2014, Richard met with the Parks Department about filing a variance, with the help of engineer Gary Jaster. Complications arose when objections were raised about putting it in a flood plain, even though the Stevie Ray Vaughn statue, an earlier engineering feat of Gary, was already there. Another city department wanted to call a moratorium on all statue-related projects until its own master plan was completed.
After much complicated discussion, the City Council voted to let The Home Coming application process go ahead. Ultimately, homeless haters passed an ordinance that prevented the statue from being placed at the Homeless Memorial of 26 years. Troxell considered filing a lawsuit to force it being “grandfathered” in. However, after two more years of pushback, Troxell decided to keep the Memorial and choose another site for The Home Coming statue.
Now for some media clips: In “The Home Coming” (2:30) Richard introduces the figures and explains their significance. In “Home Coming Model, ” Timothy Schmalz speaks about the sculpture, and in this footage, he works on it.
We invite you to the Home Coming Unveiling Ceremony, details below:
When: Saturday, May 18, 2019, 9 a.m.
Where: Community First! Village, 9301 Hog Eye Rd., Austin, TX 78724
Getting there: The bus from downtown Austin leaves at 6:58 and 7:58 a.m. (Take the route 6, East 12th, from 7th & Colorado).
Accommodations: Out-of-town visitors are welcome to stay at the Community Inn on premises. Call 512-551-5453 or contact the Inn at communityinn@mlf.org for more information.
The Home Coming statue will be placed in the community garden. There will be live music, and free coffee and food will be served as part of the unveiling event.
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Image by Timothy P. Schmalz
In The Home Coming sculpture group, the male figure also represents veterans (and of course there are female veterans too). Then, there is a woman who also represents the elderly and people of color; and a young girl who also stands in for boy children, equally vulnerable and deserving. In other words, there is a lot of crossover among America’s unhoused population, including a segment with advanced degrees, all of which highlights the multifactorial nature of homelessness.
House the Homeless Co-Founder and President Richard R. Troxell is a Vietnam veteran who defeated obstacles that stood in the way of readapting to civilian life, as described in his book, Looking Up at the Bottom Line. Richard asks us to remember that generally, higher household incomes coincide with fewer reports of violence against women.
It has been know for some time that financial security buttresses the stability of mental health. When families are not constantly stressed by inability to pay bills or afford any extras, domestic violence decreases, and this connection was formally admitted in a 2004 report by the U.S. Department of Justice.
This month, we find this headline: “Increasing minimum wage, tax credits could stop over 1,200 suicides a year.” Researchers from UC Berkeley figured this out. The paper they published, “Can Economic Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair?,” is the first to prove a direct relationship between self-destruction and the minimum wage.
House the Homeless has spoken about conditions that the Veterans Administration does not seem able to fix. Here is another “hot off the presses” item:
An unidentified veteran died early Monday morning outside the emergency room of the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Ohio, the 7th suicide this year on a VA property and the fourth this month.
The veteran suicide toll still stands at around 20 per day, but seemingly, individuals are choosing to exit from the world in a public fashion that imparts a message. Supposedly, in a past human society in one part of the world, it was customary to point the blame at an enemy who had wronged you by committing suicide at his gate.
Is that what is going on? Another source quotes these words:
“Walk into a clinic and shoot themselves, or light him or herself on fire, what’s going on?” said Sherman Gillums, AMVET spokesperson.
“We have too many veterans that are committing suicides, too many veterans that have mental health issues and we also have this opioid problem at the same time,” said Senator Shelley Moore Capito.
Has it occurred to anyone that homelessness, or the ever-impending threat of homelessness, might be contributing to this crisis? Could not having a place to live possibly be connected with these other problems?
Throughout the country, in the hospitals that remain, emergency rooms bear the brunt of homelessness. The proponents of H-PACT want to change the “fragmented, costly care” paradigm for several reasons. Among veterans who receive urgent care treatment, about one in five are either back at the emergency facility and/or are hospitalized before 30 days have gone by. One source explains:
H-PACT services are intended for the most challenging and complex cases and patients that are most difficult to engage in care — such as those who have multiple morbidities, have difficulty keeping scheduled appointments, make multiple visits to the emergency department, or have underlying mental health or substance abuse needs…
The goal of H-PACT is to create a collaborative homeless medical home model eliminating barriers and obstacles to accessing quality health care by incorporating social determinants of health into care delivery, and to fast-track permanent housing placement.
Enrolled vets are said to gain housing 81 days faster than those who are not enrolled in H-PACT, and the program shaves nearly $10,000 per year off each enrolled person’s medical care bill.
Cannabis helps a lot of people with chronic pain, PTSD, and numerous other problems. But even in states where medical marijuana is legal, VA doctors are not allowed to recommend it to to their patients. Earlier this year, the Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act was introduced to address this discrepancy.
Also, please don’t miss this publication from House the Homeless and several associated organizations: “Homeless Veterans in Action Traumatic Brain Injury — A Protocol to Help Disabled Homeless Veterans within a Secure, Nurturing Community.”
House the Homeless’ Home Coming statue project has been in development for several years, the result of a collaboration between House the Homeless and sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz. The project was conceived with an idea of putting a positive face on homelessness. Richard envisioned the statue project as a memorial to those who have lost their lives to homelessness.
Thanks to funds raised exclusively for this memorial, the much-anticipated life-sized bronze statue will be introduced to the public at Austin’s Community First! Village next month. We invite you to the unveiling ceremony, details below.
When: Saturday, May 18, 2019, 9 a.m.
Where: Community First! Village, 9301 Hog Eye Rd., Austin, TX 78724
Getting there: The bus from downtown Austin leaves at 6:58 and 7:58 a.m. (Take the route 6, East 12th, from 7th & Colorado).
Accommodations: Out-of-town visitors are welcome to stay at the Community Inn on premises. Call 512-551-5453 or contact the Inn at communityinn@mlf.org for more information.
There will be live music, and free coffee and breakfast tacos will be served.
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Source: “When Violence Hits Home: How Economics and Neighborhood Play a Role,” NCJRS.gov, 2004
Source: “Increasing minimum wage, tax credits could stop over 1,200 suicides a year,” Berkeley.edu, 04/29/19
Source: “Hours After 7th Vet Suicide at VA, Officials Repeat Plea for Public to Help,” Military.com, 04/30/19
Source: “Veterans’ suicides at VA facilities are apparent protests against poor care, advocates say,” Wavy.com, 04/22/19
Source: “VA Homelessness: Homeless Patient Aligned Care Teams,” AHRQ.gov
Source: “Three Cannabis Issues Congress Needs to Tackle,” Townhall.com, 02/16/19
Image courtesy House the Homeless
Clay forms of Veteran and Daughter
Clay form of African American Woman
On Saturday, May 18th, 2019 Mobile Loaves & Fishes and House the Homeless hosted the unveiling of a permanent sculpture installation at Community First! Village titled “Home Coming.”
Home Coming is a concept by Richard R. Troxell of House the Homeless that honors both the rich artistic culture of Austin and the plight of our homeless brothers & sisters.
Richard R. Troxell, President of House the Homeless, Inc., is one of those people who almost has too much common sense. While everybody is frantic about jobs being outsourced, Richard asks us to think about what kinds of jobs can’t be outsourced. People who cut our hair and paint our nails. People who care for our aged relatives — and soon, for us.
Some things are destined to come back into style. As the world grows more conscious of waste and pollution, objects that last will be back in demand, and so will people who know how to repair them. The point is, jobs that people do with their bodies cannot be sent overseas, and Richard calls these workers “the backbone of American business.”
They can and will be treated better. If they ever realize their collective strength, things could get ugly for the folks who mainly love money. This is why unions are so widely discouraged, and why deceptive Orwellian phrases like “right to work” are formulated.
Another point Richard makes is that businesses need to stop treating workers like disposable plastic forks. For people who are so attuned to the nuances of the dollar, the things they don’t grasp are astonishing. Richard has studied the thoughts of Henry Ford, who may not have been the perfect man, but he knew a thing or two about running a factory.
Financially stable workers are good for business, and here’s why:
1) Significant reduction in employee turnover;
2) Significant reduction in retraining costs;
3) Significant reduction in unscheduled absenteeism;
4) Almost complete stoppage of internal theft;
5) Finally, Ford’s new approach created a true economic stimulus because his workers put discretionary funds right back into his company as purchasing consumers. They then bought the very cars they were making by using their newfound wages.
A fiscally responsible person does not budget more than a quarter of their income for housing — that’s what they used to teach in home economics classes. Then somebody sneakily raised the bar. Now, we are told, it’s wise not to spend more than one-third of the income on housing. And we’re supposed to feel all prudent and sensible, like before. But one-third is more than one-fourth.
In her article for House the Homeless, Katie McCaskey speaks of massive players and their extractive agendas, and specifically points to Wal-Mart as the archetypal corporate vampire, with “no incentive to care for local workers, their environment, or the economic resiliency of the local market to which they and other local business owners contribute.” And here she is on housing:
There was a time when the Federal Minimum Wage stabilized incomes enough that working people could afford housing. That time has passed, so definitively that workers are not only unable to become homeowners, they are not even able to pay rent. Apparently, the landlord class is untroubled by this. Their lawyers can figure out how to make the government reward them for sitting on empty properties.
Some HtH posts have introduced interesting individuals like Kirsten Anderberg, who called 300 apartment-for-rent ads in Los Angeles, and found that only three of those landlords accepted tenants who received assistance. For the mathematically challenged, that is one out a hundred, or one percent. Anderberg wrote,
[…] In essence, the government has made the Section 8 voucher program nearly impossible to use, while feigning the illusion of concern and remedy.
Don’t miss the interview that Wayne Hurlbert, host of Blog Business Success Radio, conducted with the House the Homeless co-founder Richard R. Troxell. On that day, Richard was wearing his writer hat, as author of Looking Up at the Bottom Line: The Struggle for the Living Wage.
We also recommend:
Consider the Universal Living Wage
Minimum Wage and the Universal Living Wage
Business, Fairness, and the Universal Living Wage
Perspective: Living Wages
The Home Coming statue to be unveiled at Austin’s Community First! Village on Saturday, May 18. This unique statue project has been in development for several years, the result of a collaboration between House the Homeless and sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz. The much-anticipated life-sized bronze statue will be introduced to the public at the Village’s community garden, details below.
When: Saturday, May 18, 2019, 9 a.m.
Where: Community First! Village, 9301 Hog Eye Rd., Austin, TX 78724
Getting there: The bus from downtown Austin leaves at 6:58 and 7:58 a.m. (Take the route 6, East 12th, from 7th & Colorado).
Accommodations: Out-of-town visitors are welcome to stay at the Community Inn on premises. Call 512-551-5453 or contact the Inn at communityinn@mlf.org for more information.
There will be live music, and coffee and breakfast tacos will be served.
Reactions?
Austin, Texas, is an exceptional city for many reasons, one of them being the existence of Community First! Village (CF!V). It is the creation of Mobile Loaves and Fishes (MLF), the social outreach ministry that has been making a difference locally since 1998. Since then, among other accomplishments, the organization has served more than 5.5 million meals via its food trucks.
But treating the symptoms has never been enough. What is the underlying societal malfunction? MLF has found that the single most prevalent cause of homelessness is “a profound, catastrophic loss of family.” This paragraph is from the Village’s Facebook page, which we strongly recommend, along with the Village’s inspiring YouTube channel.
Community First! Village was built on the basic philosophy that housing alone will never solve homelessness, but community will. Most often, we find people on the streets who have a regular, albeit dysfunctional, community, even though they have no houses or shelter to live in. The truth is, the fundamental component that human beings need is human interaction; and human interaction occurs within community.
The organization’s website says,
It’s from this understanding that MLF’s vision emerged to build Community First! Village to welcome home our friends who had been pushed to the fringe of society… Community First! Village is a 51-acre master planned development that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.
House the Homeless co-founder Richard R. Troxell calls it “a national best practices community, truly affordable for people experiencing homelessness who are disabled.” For more than a decade, Richard has been helping people apply for the SSI payments to which they are entitled, and referring them to the Village.
Richard also introduced Village founder Alan Graham to Dr. Mark Gordon, and plans are underway to join with House the Homeless, Millennium Health Centers, the Warrior Angels Foundation, and local medics to create a Traumatic Brain Injury treatment program for 10 homeless veterans. Consult this publication to learn more.
The idea here is for people to rediscover their talents and abilities, and translate them into making a living. The Community Works program includes car care, screen printing, catering, blacksmith work, art, gardens, a cinema, and an Inn. Animal husbandry is one of the areas in which participants can develop expertise.
Other features include a store, a hair salon, a health clinic and mental health facility, open-air barbecue facility, community kitchens, meeting spaces for worship, study and fellowship, and of restroom, shower, and laundry facilities. The Village also enjoys hiking trails and a conveniently located bus stop. The residents live in tiny houses, tepees, canvas tents, and trailers with extended slide-outs.
All that is about to change, because Phase II is underway. Additions include a woodworking shop, outdoor event center, memorial garden and prayer labyrinth, a community market, and a guest parking lot. The housing component will eventually comprise 100 RV homes and 200 micro-homes, and more laundry/restroom facilities will be added, along with more outdoor kitchens.
House the Homeless has also gotten traction for the idea to create an Adopt-A-Tree program at CF!V. It is designed to enable local, on-site arborists to “love on all the trees” already on the property’s 51 acres, and offer an adoption program for a community-based/designed new tree program to soften and warm the Village with new trees.
Ultimately, around 500 people are expected to be at home in Community First! Village. The opportunity to be a part of this is wide open for both local supporters and distant ones. Learn more about that from the Ways to Give page.
The Home Coming statue to be unveiled in the Village’s community garden on Saturday, May 18. This unique statue project has been in development for several years, the result of a collaboration between House the Homeless and sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz. The much-anticipated life-sized bronze statue will be introduced to the public at Austin’s Community First! Village, details below.
When: Saturday, May 18, 2019, 9 a.m.
Where: Community First! Village, 9301 Hog Eye Rd., Austin, TX 78724
Getting there: The bus from downtown Austin leaves at 6:58 and 7:58 a.m. (Take the route 6, East 12th, from 7th & Colorado).
Accommodations: Out-of-town visitors awe welcome to stay at the Community Inn on premises. Call 512-551-5453 or contact the Inn at communityinn@mlf.org for more information.
There will be live music, and coffee and breakfast tacos will be served.
Reactions?
Source: “Homeless Veterans in Action Traumatic Brain InjuryA Protocol to Help Disabled Homeless Veterans within a Secure, Nurturing Community,” MFL.org
Source: “About Us,” MFL.org
Image by MFL.org
In Emeryville (in California’s Bay Area) the City Council decided to incrementally raise its minimum wage for workplaces with 55 or fewer employees. It went to $13 per hour in 2016, then $14 the next year, and $15 in 2018, and this coming July it goes up to $16.
Yes, some lucky locals can now get away with working only 48 to 60 hours per week, instead of 80. Journalist Matthew Desmond lists some of the effects of a reasonable minimum wage. For instance, the Georgia Institute of Technology found that raising the minimum by even $1 per hour cuts down reports of child neglect by almost 10 percent. This is because it helps parents pay the utility bills and keep food in the cupboard.
The public health benefits are undeniable. As Desmond says,
The chronic stress that accompanies poverty can be seen at the cellular level. It has been linked to a wide array of adverse conditions, from maternal health problems to tumor growth…
Low wages are an affront to basic dignity. They make people feel small, insignificant and powerless. Subjectively experiencing these feelings can have real health consequences beyond the material hardships of poverty.
With a higher minimum wage, a community sees declines in smoking, teen alcohol use, teen pregnancies, low-birthweight babies, and domestic violence — all things that we definitely need less of. People sleep better, suffer less depression, and are less likely to overeat from stress. Businesses make money because people have money to spend. When there is less incentive for crime, the cost of policing goes down.
And of course, when people have a living wage in their pocket we can stimulate the economy both locally and nationally because folks all need the same thing…housing. So, now that people have that money, the housing industry will create that housing in a heart beat.
Minimum wage laws seem to have finally become an accepted principle, although there is disagreement about what the minimum should be. In France it is set at 60 percent of median income; in England at 46 percent. In the United States the formula is complicated, but hovers around 40 percent. The thing about the Universal Living Wage – ULW (National Locality Wage – NLW) is that it has a different way of calculating its math, one that takes into consideration the local conditions, because after all, this is a nation of a thousand economies.
We recommend “Economic Recovery — Fixing the Economy,” the very full explanation authored by House the Homeless co-founder and President Richard R. Troxell. Another way to absorb these ideas is via Richard’s discussion with Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Talk Radio. Meanwhile, here is the elevator pitch:
The Universal Living Wage – ULW (National Locality Wage – NLW) formula ensures that anyone working 40 hours in a week can afford the bare necessities of civilized life: food, clothing, shelter, including utilities, and transportation to and from work. That is not a lot to ask, and the employers who benefit from the workers’ labor ought to pay them enough to live on without resorting to public assistance.
One size does not fit all: $7.25 an hour in Austin is not the same as in a small town. As a responsible Community Partner, a business needs to pay a fair living wage for the area. Crazy plan, right? So crazy, the U.S. military uses it. When personnel live off base, their housing allowance is indexed to the local conditions. Minimum wage just needs to be tweaked a bit, into the Universal Living Wage – ULW (National Locality Wage – NLW), which could both cure and prevent homelessness for an awful lot of Americans.
The Universal Living Wage – ULW (National Locality Wage – NLW) is different from the Universal Basic Income (UBI), which we discussed in two recent posts. They could potentially both exist at the same time, and why not? Why shouldn’t people be fairly compensated for working, if they can, and if there are jobs? Don’t they deserve a little extra help at the same time?
Universal Basic Income is mischaracterized, and some weird ideas are circulating about what so-called “free money” does to people. But we need to think about what it does for people, to be lifted above bare subsistence. UBI would apply to everyone equally — rich or poor; disabled or fully functional; employed or unemployed. It would provide enough to prevent starvation, and hopefully, for rudimentary shelter, especially if Richard’s dream of reviving institutions like the YMCA and YWCA could be realized.
Some complain, “But then everyone would just sit around.” Realistically, it is silly to worry that people will not want to work, when jobs keep drying up. Every day, more jobs are automated, shipped overseas, or both. Soon, even more people will have no jobs. It would be better for everyone if they had a way to survive.
Third-world residents take out micro-loans to buy goats or chickens, and are able to repay within a year. Surely, a percentage of Americans would figure out how to turn a dependable pittance (like a UBI payment) into a livable income. Millions have already used their entrepreneurial genius to achieve success. We haven’t forgotten how. UBI could embolden a person to ditch a crummy job for an independent venture, and that crummy job would then be available for someone else — a win/win!
For a person who could technically scrape by on UBI, but also held down a job, that extra could make the difference between having health insurance or not. It could let them hire an exam coach for their nephew. In other words, having a modest cushion could allow for self-betterment, in the honored American tradition.
Maybe people who work less will volunteer more, to the immeasurable benefit of their communities. Just imagine if parents didn’t have to put in so many work hours, and could spend more time with their kids.
The proposition that nobody works unless they have to is ridiculous on its face, and here is the proof: Lots of people in America have millions of dollars, and yet they keep on grinding. There is no evidence that hating work is a catastrophically widespread trait. The really ineradicable human characteristic is always wanting more, more, more.
Please join us on Saturday, May 18, at 9 a.m., for the unveiling of The Home Coming statues at Mobile Loaves & Fishes Community First! Village, 9301 Hog Eye Road, Austin, TX 78724 (map). You can register here (required).
Parking will be limited, so please carpool if at all possible. There will be coffee, breakfast tacos, and live music! If you’re traveling from downtown take the route 6 bus (East 12th) from 7th & Colorado. The bus leaves at 6:58 and 7:58 a.m.
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Source: “Dollars on the margins,” NYTimes.com, 02/21/19
Image: House the Homeless
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