Department of Housing and Urban Development Announces Protections for LGBT Community
Earlier this week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced plans to ensure that people eligible for their programs will not be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. From the press release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced a series of proposals [...]
...read moreI just threw up in my mouth a little.
For those who have not heard of Henrietta Hughes, she is a homeless woman who stood up at a town hall meeting and told Barack Obama that she is unemployed and has been forced her to live in her car. She further pleaded with the president to do something to ensure that people like her [...]
...read moreHomelessness Increases Among Female Veterans
It looks like the rates of homelessness among female veterans are rising: Even including the 20 or so beds that would make up the new women’s home, Ms. Kiss described a grim calculus for female veterans. Ten years ago women represented 3 percent of homeless veterans, she said, compared with 5 percent now. About 180,000 [...]
...read moreDisrupting Bloomberg
Dissent has been bubbling up more and more frequently here in the cold, snow-blown streets of New York. The other day, when it was announced that Wall Street was using its bailout funds to hand out record bonuses to its employees, I started hearing murmurs of discontent and talk of tarring and feathering stock brokers [...]
...read moreOn Increasing Poverty and Homelessness
The above video really did break my heart. On the one hand, I really do worry that there’s something exploitative about filming and watching this man’s pain. On the other hand, I feel like we need to watch, and turning away is just another way of excusing and reinforcing the system that created this man’s [...]
...read moreMore Fathers Owning Daughters
I came across this article, and something about it totally creeps me out the door: He once sought blood. Now he wants justice. The father of a 15-year-old girl who reported being gang-raped after an underage drinking party in Neptune Beach a month ago said Monday he is patiently waiting for police to solve the [...]
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New Orleans police enforce the “no poor folk in NOLA” rule
hat tip, Beautiful Also Are The Souls of My Black Sisters: Image description: several people surround a woman who is being tended to on the ground by two women and a man. The woman on the ground has her mouth open and appears to be crying out. There are various people running past and milling [...]
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Update and mobilization statement from Coalition To Stop Demolitions
Image description: a large white cloth banner with the words STOP THE DEMOLITIONS. The image is close cropped but several hands are visible holding the banner. A statement from the Coalition to Stop Demolitions: The Coalition to Stop the Demolitions would like to thank all allies and supporters throughout the United States and the world [...]
...read moreWhy demolishing public housing cuts to the bone
Have any of you all ever been evicted? Ever lost a home for any reason? Even if it’s an old house in the middle of the city that could probably use a lot of time and money that you don’t have, it’s still home. I spent a couple of years on my old blog talking [...]
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