by Pat Hartman | Dec 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Astonishingly, there is still more to say about how Seattle has fared under the auspices of Amazon, in a situation that is rife with object lessons for other American cities tempted to court the favor of giant corporations. For instance, journalist April Glaser wrote...
by Pat Hartman | Dec 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Innumerable factors go into causing homelessness, and when people get to the stage of actually experiencing homelessness, the same factors bedevil their lives even more. What happens when a city is taken over by a giant corporation whose activities touch every single...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Everything affects homelessness. Job loss, divorce, well-paid people moving in from out of town, gas prices, food prices, overzealous law enforcement, disrupted family connections, public transport, church activities… All these factors, and many more, exert influence...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Amazon finally relieved everyone’s stress by announcing the location of its much-vaunted second headquarters. Surprise! It’s not one new site, but two — New York City (specifically, Long Island City, which is in the borough of Queens) and Crystal City, in Arlington...
by House the Homeless | Nov 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week we pointed out some of the mistaken ideas that housed people hold regarding people experiencing homelessness. Another of those widespread misconceptions is that “the homeless don’t want to work.” Let’s take as examples the same four subgroups we focused on...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Referencing myths about homelessness is a reliable way to create an easily-understandable title for a piece of journalism, yet the word itself is a bit too glamorous for comfort. “Myth” is a rather positive word, one that elevates and ennobles, associated with grand...
