The population of California constitutes 12 percent of the US population. Source As of January 2019, 27% of people experiencing homelessn... | Continue reading
In recent years, the US has been experiencing a quiet hepatitis A epidemic that hasn't been getting much press coverage. My best understand... | Continue reading
We all grow up in our own little bubble. Getting perspective on ourselves and/or our own lives is one of the harder things to do in life. ... | Continue reading
While I was homeless, I had a descriptor in my profile on some forum that I was "Independently Poor." That was more than just tongue-in-chee... | Continue reading
I've been dealing with my own health drama having nothing to do with the pandemic, so I kind of haven't really noticed how Coronavirus is im... | Continue reading
I thought about posting this piece about a proposed solution for the homeless in Grand Central Terminal to r/homeless, but I don't know tha... | Continue reading
This post is an attempt to begin to answer a question that someone recently asked me: What do you think about mental condition induced h... | Continue reading
I spent nearly six years homeless and I've been back in housing for more than two years. I still have trouble accepting how hard it is to ... | Continue reading
The San Diego Homeless Survival Guide is probably the most successful website I have ever had. It actually kind of annoys me. It was an ... | Continue reading
No, this is not about the sorts of things found on r/Showerthoughts. This is about hygiene while homeless. I spent nearly six years homeless... | Continue reading
I got news for all the chronically housed people in the US, who have apparently never even gone camping, yet are making policy and trying to... | Continue reading
I got news for all the chronically housed people in the US, who have apparently never even gone camping, yet are making policy and trying to... | Continue reading
I got news for all the chronically housed people in the US, who have apparently never even gone camping, yet are making policy and trying to... | Continue reading
(This is a piece about homelessness and how people end up on the street. If you are the type who needs Trigger Warnings , you might want to ... | Continue reading
Philadelphia is a powerful and brilliantly done movie that makes the point that extreme discrimination causes social death for the object ... | Continue reading
When I was homeless in downtown San Diego, I routinely heard that the city had 10,000 homeless people. According to Wikipedia , the current ... | Continue reading
One of the reasons homelessness is intractable is because it's complex and hard to comprehend. I've spent some years trying to come up with ... | Continue reading
There's a very old saying: "Feed a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." A lot of our homeless ser... | Continue reading
The phrase bread and circus has pretty negative connotations for most people. But it's never had negative associations for me. My ex was a... | Continue reading
LGBTQ individuals are at such high risk of homelessness that you can't reasonably expect to address homelessness effectively if you aren't h... | Continue reading
Physical handicaps, mental health issues and addiction seem to be the most commonly cited causes of homelessness. This framing helps make it... | Continue reading
"It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife." -- Ironic, by Alanis Morissette. You might already be familiar with The Spo... | Continue reading
I wrote a long comment on Hacker News about the need for the US to address the housing issue here. I don't really have a term for what I ... | Continue reading
The internet keeps telling me there is no connection between housing costs and homelessness. The internet is wrong: Research by Zillow ... | Continue reading
If you are homeless, you almost certainly have some kind of social drama happening in your life. Generally speaking, you only wind up on the... | Continue reading
The Shirky Principle: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" I have been saying this for a l... | Continue reading