unauthorized home less ness

adding after reading Jose Antonio Vargas‘s dear america.. where he says the book is not about immigration but about home less ness.. [and upon strike 2 in the unauth ten realm.. both home less ness situations..]

question/focus -we seem to be ok w calling out ie: unauthorized tenants.. and having empty spaces while people live in the cold.. on the streets.. working while homeless .. separated from family.. living in refugee camps.. incarceration.. madagascar love.. abandoned school to apts.. any of these assumed borders keeping us from home/us

what if we called out unauthorized home less ness..?

this has been a focus of our vision/what (whatever you call it) from day 1.. and so from research (bach to gupta to ..) – finding out we have the means for no one to be home less (or hungry.. et al) – that’s what the what came from.. and led to a nother way (a quiet revolution)

but for a better (in the meantime) temp bandaid.. imagining if any of us w a home.. esp those w empty homes.. would take in a friend.. that would certainly help many people now.. rather than our current mech.. of putting/keeping people on hold.. (de-ice, poverty, et al)

but.. we’ve got bureaucracies/documentations/laws/rules.. that ie: in boulder recently you can live 10 family members to a house.. but not 10 non blood family members.. [not to mention hoops you have to jump thru to get a place – imagining libraries as non b place

forcing us to live isolated lives..

violence/disturbance to our natural state..our natural/basic needs

almaas holes law..

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What happens when you begin to believe that you inherently deserve what you have is that you then begin to believe others inherently deserve what they *don’t* have.
The result is decades of public policy that often punish ppl in poverty instead of assisting them in escaping it.
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1047480372882227200

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Adora on homeless ness

Why You Should Think Twice About Calling the Police on Homeless People https://t.co/kEZGmPFckU

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/hardlynormal/status/1054428077432979456

The harsh reality is that the solution to homelessness is not a phone call, a police sweep or a shiny new app; it’s housing that people can afford.

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Pacific Standard (@PacificStand) tweeted at 5:30 AM – 10 Nov 2018 :
A recent report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition concluded that there’s not a single county, metro area, or state in the country where a full-time minimum-wage worker could afford a two-bedroom home. @DwyerGunn https://t.co/e3JhBL2e4G(http://twitter.com/PacificStand/status/1061234518042959872?s=17)

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Guillem Ramírez (@GuillemRC) tweeted at 3:08 AM – 4 Dec 2018 :
“While govs have abandoned tenants, they have not abandoned investors. Residential real estate is world’s biggest business: 163 trillion dollars – almost three times the annual world GDP. But housing is not gold, it is a human right”
@adequatehousing at #housingforall conference https://t.co/3nyUk7iUhK (http://twitter.com/GuillemRC/status/1069896231747502081?s=17)

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Deficit Owls (@DeficitOwls) tweeted at 10:10 PM – 3 Feb 2019 :
@Mackandcompany @samvega @Intolerantcentr @JoMicheII @davidgraeber We have the same issue here. We routinely have many more vacant homes than we have homeless people. We just don’t take such a humanitarian approach. We prefer the houses to stay empty but command a price. https://t.co/whxehI6L4l (http://twitter.com/DeficitOwls/status/1092289242129227776?s=17)

from 2015 – Empty Homes Outnumber The Homeless 6 To 1, So Why Not Give Them Homes?

Millions of Americans experience homelessness every year, and yet they’re outnumbered by vacant homes and government-owned buildings. A growing number of activists are calling for these empty spaces to be filled with the humans living on America’s streets.

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Eliza Shapiro (@elizashapiro) tweeted at 2:37 PM – 6 Jun 2019 :
Looking at LA’s big rise in homelessness, I cant get over the fact that LA’s entire homeless pop. is still *smaller* than the # of NYC schoolchildren living in shelters, not even counting 10s of 1000s of NYC kids on couches of relatives homes
https://t.co/ZrRX2OsGIg (http://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1136733911365689411?s=17)

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Police officer admits he told homeless man to lick public urinal to avoid arrest https://t.co/Wfsj4ichmQ

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/hardlynormal/status/1207348052542967809

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invisible/hidden children

First Focus on Children (@First_Focus) tweeted at 5:49 AM – 24 Jan 2020 :
The hidden homeless: Not guys sleeping in tents but kids sleeping on buses and floors – @petulad – Washington Post https://t.co/kwNRvgl0Fe
“It goes beyond the outrage of seeing a government claiming success when we’re actually failing American children.” https://t.co/DWuwPOfPYd (http://twitter.com/First_Focus/status/1220689966914732032?s=17)

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evicted.. et al

down here – bud osborn – fighting for space.. liz evans.. ann livingston

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social control

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mark on what to give

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via jane jacobs‘ death and life of cities:

p. 321 – most of the aims i have been writing about, aims such as unslumming slums, catalyzing diversity, nurturing lively streets, are unrecognized today as objectives of city planning. therefore, planners and the agencies of action that carry out plans possess neither strategies nor tactics for carrying out such aims.

however, although city planning lacks tactics for building cities that can work like cities, it does possess plenty of tactics. they are aimed at carrying out strategic lunacies. unfortunately, they are effective.

p. 322 – … we become the prisoners of our tactics, seldom looking behind them at the strategies.

did public housing fail completely? hosing expert Charles Abrams has asked, after castigating it as ill-conceived for its purposes and as having, in combination with urban-renewal clearance, attained “absurdity.”

he went on to answer:

no, it proved many things.. it proved that large blighted areas are assemblable, replannable and rebuildable. it won public acceptance of large-scale urban improvement and established the legal base for it. it proved that.. housing bonds are aaa investments; that public provision of shelter is a govt duty; that the housing authority mechanism can at least operate without graft. all this is no small accomplishment.

all that is indeed no small accomplishment. the devices of large-scale clearance, slum shifting , slum immuring, project planning, income sorting, use sorting have become so fixed as planning images and as collections of tactics that city rebuilders, and most ordinary citizens too face a blank when they try to think of city rebuilding without these means. to get past this obstacle, we must understand the original misconception on which the rest of the fancy structure rests.

p. 323 – the thicket of confusion about the workings of cities which has grown around and upon the subsidized housing project notion is no longer just in our minds. by now it is also a thicket of legislative, financial, architectural and analytical devices applied to cities.

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but let us see how involuted and rigid these reasons can become – have become – by giving another seemingly simple but slightly different answer to the question: what is the reason for subsidizing dwellings in cities?

the answer we long ago accepted went like this: the reason we need dwelling subsidies is to provide for that part of the population which cannot be housed by private enterprise.

and, the answer went on, so long as this is necessary anyway, the subsidized dwellings should embody and demonstrate the principles of good housing and planning.

this is a terrible answer, with terrible consequences.

p. 324 – quicker than the eye can see, however, “people who cannot be housed by private enterprise” have been turned into a statistical group with peculiar shelter requirements, like prisoners, on the basis of one statistic: their income. to carry out the rest of the answer, this statistical group becomes a special collection of guinea pigs for utopians to mess around with.