tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post3284353628377867908..comments2023-10-29T00:56:13.579-07:00Comments on Ed Pilolla: Home HuntingEd Pilollahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139531369534586168noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-55862289378822889822011-06-05T06:23:17.273-07:002011-06-05T06:23:17.273-07:00A food line twice a week, and they want to shut it...A food line twice a week, and they want to shut it down? Sad. No less than tragic. Its' funny, America will declare war on terror, war on drugs, but not a war on homelessness. Guess there's no profit to be made off the homeless.Jacohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14084226099594249885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-78210079759226839912011-06-01T15:21:39.896-07:002011-06-01T15:21:39.896-07:00it's easy to solve homelessness, actually. wha...it's easy to solve homelessness, actually. what cities are doing is building something called permanent supportive housing, which puts the services in the buildings that the tenants live in. this sort of thing has worked for 80 percent of the people who enroll or thereabouts, according to the data i was looking at a couple years ago when i was researching all this. new york has done a lot of this. other cities too. los angeles hasn't done much of it at all. the city has thrown the money at the lapd instead. cycling people thru jail and the missions costs more than building housing, but that's the direction the city goes. what the lapd is doing in skid row basically is putting enough pressure on the homeless population so that the sidewalks don't become overrun with the homeless as they were prior to the "safer cities" crackdown.ed pilollahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810299925068571517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-41357316220136015402011-06-01T13:06:37.183-07:002011-06-01T13:06:37.183-07:00I've often wondered if a city designated a lar...I've often wondered if a city designated a large building or two specifically for the homeless to come for shelter and food, run and maintained by the homeless, would that resolve the annoyance of public peeing and dumping and walking over sleeping bodies on sidewalks. The other question is if something like this was created, would all the homeless take advantage of it? I really don't think it would be difficult for city governments to create such places. Or, for that matter, churches or corporations. But, then that would be too simple an answer.<br /><br />In the late 80s/early 90s, the mayor or police chief of San Francisco had the most insane idea of gathering all the homeless and moving them to the next county.Su-sieee! Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12515318972570669414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-82592459564817904872011-06-01T09:49:32.648-07:002011-06-01T09:49:32.648-07:00this is part of the immersion process, becoming pa...this is part of the immersion process, becoming part of the catholic worker to an extent. it's inevitable. i hear the homeless thank us for the breakfast, and i know a lot of the people we serve really look forward to the free meal and seeing their friends. for a lot of the guys downtown, a good day is not interacting with the police, or getting a square meal, or not having their stuff stolen or confiscated by the city while they are peeing inside the mission. after that happens, urinating in public becomes the first option.<br /><br />i'll be moving out of the lacw house june 12, and i hope to continue following the coffee line saga after i move out, but i'll have to see what my accountant says:)ed pilollahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810299925068571517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-45343555242902197762011-05-30T18:50:37.543-07:002011-05-30T18:50:37.543-07:00why not allow a breakfast line that lasts for 40 m...why not allow a breakfast line that lasts for 40 minutes twice a week to continue? it's a good thing for the most marginalized of people. becuz someone takes a piss on the sidewalk once in a while, that means a hundred people can't have oatmeal and coffee.ed pilollahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810299925068571517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-74706798143424458632011-05-30T09:31:53.966-07:002011-05-30T09:31:53.966-07:00There used to be a number of churches not far from...There used to be a number of churches not far from the Row. For many years they struggled mightily with the problems on their doorstep, until they discovered the elegantly simple solution of moving their doorstep to places where problems were few. Some of those churches still thrive today, but in the suburban foothills, not downtown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-1767493057495024022011-05-30T08:53:29.297-07:002011-05-30T08:53:29.297-07:00they do it here as well..pumping money into "...they do it here as well..pumping money into "difficult" places to make them save again..not easy..for all involved parts...Claudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011763027311966186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-72894471671193396282011-05-30T07:24:00.139-07:002011-05-30T07:24:00.139-07:00What a tough question.
I know, for me, it would i...What a tough question.<br /><br />I know, for me, it would involve lots of soul searching and thinking, and doing the right thing vs what I would "prefer."<br /><br />Lots of REAL thinking..Alexandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00609629888008025050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-62562784999154819342011-05-30T07:05:01.140-07:002011-05-30T07:05:01.140-07:00Greg has a point. You have a point. The homeless h...Greg has a point. You have a point. The homeless have a point. Nobody really wants to step over a daily reminder of all that is wrong, all that could - in the blink of an eye - be how the table of our lives turn. No one really wants to see a guy take a dump outside their office window first thing in the morning, nor do they want to go take out the trash and find several people rooting through it. No one WANTS people to be homeless. I don't know the answers. But I wonder what would happen if the two sides of the "home" sat down and had a non-defensive discussion? What would happen if they worked it out themselves? What would happen....if they got to KNOW each other????<br /><br />Sent my copy of the book to you last week. Hope you get it!<br /><br />~AnnieWine and Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778785233226804217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-65362459205470196412011-05-30T04:48:19.788-07:002011-05-30T04:48:19.788-07:00but how long will that last...money will trump it,...but how long will that last...money will trump it, for the city and for those that moved in....Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925676452875149347.post-21184224255085062702011-05-30T04:23:52.484-07:002011-05-30T04:23:52.484-07:00our communities are disjointed arent they
cities e...our communities are disjointed arent they<br />cities especially perhapslucychilihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658noreply@blogger.com