#houselessness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #houselessness, aggregated by home.social.
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Rent to rise and homelessness to quadruple in 10 years if Australia's emissions continue, study shows
Rents will rise and homelessness quadruple in a decade unless serious steps to cut emissions are taken, University of Sydney researchers find.
Global heating could worsen housing affordability, push up rents and quadruple homelessness in a decade without fairer housing policies and action to reduce emissions, new research has found.
Home prices and rents in Australia are influenced by a complex mix of factors, from incomes and mortgage rates to insurance premiums, available land and population.
University of Sydney researchers modelled the housing market system, using two decades of public data, and tested its response under different climate scenarios, publishing their results in Cities.
They found climate change affected housing and rental affordability under both high and low-emission scenarios, but vulnerable households were worst-hit under a fossil-fuelled future.
#AusPol #Australia #poor #Poverty #rent #houselessness #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
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Rent to rise and homelessness to quadruple in 10 years if Australia's emissions continue, study shows
Rents will rise and homelessness quadruple in a decade unless serious steps to cut emissions are taken, University of Sydney researchers find.
Global heating could worsen housing affordability, push up rents and quadruple homelessness in a decade without fairer housing policies and action to reduce emissions, new research has found.
Home prices and rents in Australia are influenced by a complex mix of factors, from incomes and mortgage rates to insurance premiums, available land and population.
University of Sydney researchers modelled the housing market system, using two decades of public data, and tested its response under different climate scenarios, publishing their results in Cities.
They found climate change affected housing and rental affordability under both high and low-emission scenarios, but vulnerable households were worst-hit under a fossil-fuelled future.
#AusPol #Australia #poor #Poverty #rent #houselessness #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
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Rent to rise and homelessness to quadruple in 10 years if Australia's emissions continue, study shows
Rents will rise and homelessness quadruple in a decade unless serious steps to cut emissions are taken, University of Sydney researchers find.
Global heating could worsen housing affordability, push up rents and quadruple homelessness in a decade without fairer housing policies and action to reduce emissions, new research has found.
Home prices and rents in Australia are influenced by a complex mix of factors, from incomes and mortgage rates to insurance premiums, available land and population.
University of Sydney researchers modelled the housing market system, using two decades of public data, and tested its response under different climate scenarios, publishing their results in Cities.
They found climate change affected housing and rental affordability under both high and low-emission scenarios, but vulnerable households were worst-hit under a fossil-fuelled future.
#AusPol #Australia #poor #Poverty #rent #houselessness #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
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Rent to rise and homelessness to quadruple in 10 years if Australia's emissions continue, study shows
Rents will rise and homelessness quadruple in a decade unless serious steps to cut emissions are taken, University of Sydney researchers find.
Global heating could worsen housing affordability, push up rents and quadruple homelessness in a decade without fairer housing policies and action to reduce emissions, new research has found.
Home prices and rents in Australia are influenced by a complex mix of factors, from incomes and mortgage rates to insurance premiums, available land and population.
University of Sydney researchers modelled the housing market system, using two decades of public data, and tested its response under different climate scenarios, publishing their results in Cities.
They found climate change affected housing and rental affordability under both high and low-emission scenarios, but vulnerable households were worst-hit under a fossil-fuelled future.
#AusPol #Australia #poor #Poverty #rent #houselessness #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
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Rent to rise and homelessness to quadruple in 10 years if Australia's emissions continue, study shows
Rents will rise and homelessness quadruple in a decade unless serious steps to cut emissions are taken, University of Sydney researchers find.
Global heating could worsen housing affordability, push up rents and quadruple homelessness in a decade without fairer housing policies and action to reduce emissions, new research has found.
Home prices and rents in Australia are influenced by a complex mix of factors, from incomes and mortgage rates to insurance premiums, available land and population.
University of Sydney researchers modelled the housing market system, using two decades of public data, and tested its response under different climate scenarios, publishing their results in Cities.
They found climate change affected housing and rental affordability under both high and low-emission scenarios, but vulnerable households were worst-hit under a fossil-fuelled future.
#AusPol #Australia #poor #Poverty #rent #houselessness #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
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Support the North #Portland (#PDX) Drop-In Center
*This petition is for current residents, business owners, and workers of #StJohns*
This is a counter petition to the one currently circulating in the St. Johns community seeking to close the Drop-In Center, established to provide services to the #houseless community.
We feel this is a critical resource for our houseless community members. We strongly feel that the problems being projected in local media can best be served by the community through education, de-escalation training, a more robust mutual aid network, and an increase of community involvement with the houseless community.
The Drop-In Center primarily provides services for our houseless community members in St. Johns who would not otherwise have access to these services. Services do not require a referral and include:
Case management from peer providers who can connect clients with longer-term services. That could include helping clients obtain necessary documents for #housing, #healthcare, providing referrals to community partners and behavioral #health support services, connecting clients with government benefits, and more.
#Housing navigation assistance, including identifying and eliminating barriers to housing, assistance with applications and fees, and other support services.
#Hygiene services, including laundry and showers, with access to travel-size toiletries as available.
Limited #meals offered on a first-come, first-serve basis, in addition to pantry items and hot and cold beverages.
Mailing address services. People will be able to sign up to have mail delivered to the day center; not having a stable mailing address can be a key barrier to people seeking housing.The problems attributed to the Center in local media would be greatly exacerbated if it was closed. We understand this is not the solution to #houselessness, which would be a housing first policy, but a lifeline for those who have nowhere else to turn.
No more #Illegal2BHomeless in #AmeriKKKa #Homeless people have rights too!!! #Homeless
@stjohnsfreepress
#Google Docs Alert!!!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_JD8nlT_WfP28Byu1TKwprC7YsINHlnXZHj7XjDCpo_iROQ/viewform
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Homefulness: A community's solution to #houselessness
"We believed we needed to create a community of fellow #houseless people, that was not just housing but that was support, community, healing, and love.".
Nov. 4, 2025
#SanFrancisco #California #SanFranciscoCaliforniahttps://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/homefulness-a-communitys-solution-to-houselessness
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Homefulness: A community's solution to #houselessness
"We believed we needed to create a community of fellow #houseless people, that was not just housing but that was support, community, healing, and love.". The post Homefulness: A community's solution to #houselessness appeared first on Street Spirit.
Nov. 4, 2025https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/homefulness-a-communitys-solution-to-houselessness
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they are burning the masks in front of our faces
it's coming... *they* are coming...
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your tech-developed semiwalkable dog-friendly green-urbanist corp-hub city neighborhood: all the yes to ‘diversity’ & ‘inclusion,’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to equity
https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-data-colonialism-is-unfortunately-a-thing(that’s @nerd4cities on @nebula.tv)
#surveillanceUrbanism #urbanism #walkableNeighborhoods #transit #DEI #DiversityEquityInclusion #inequality #housing #houselessness #Seattle #Amazon
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Trigger warning: a #Policy based on #Science. Guess what? The root cause of #Houselessness, aka #Homelessness, is the extraordinarily high cost of housing! https://housinginitiative.org/uploads/1/3/2/9/132946414/hip_phlh_housingoutcomes_brief.pdf
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"We know what works to end #houselessness: safe, permanent, affordable housing as a right – not as a privilege that is reserved only for those who can afford #California’s soaring rents. Until that vision is realized, people without stable homes need support — not further barriers to survival. Banning humanitarian assistance only deepens this crisis, threatening the health and lives of those already experiencing extreme deprivation. This is not the California we aspire to be. Tell your California State Assemblymember: protect the right to help, vote YES on SB 634.”
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Oh look… an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
The "identification, adoption, and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment, institutional treatment, and “step-down” treatment standards that allow for the appropriate commitment and treatment of individuals with mental illness who pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves" means that people who cannot afford housing will be involuntarily committed, locked up.
Section 3 means giving money to states that do what the Feds want by locking up the houseless, e.g.
Withdrawl of funds or threats of prosecution to ensure No more housing first (even though it's the most effective approach). No more harm reduction or safe injection sites or methadone (although, again, evidence based). (But they can again have a fancy computer program make up some evidence to say what they want it to say).
No more privacy for medical information.
I'm guessing that "increasing competition among grantees through broadening the applicant pool" means making housing money available to GeoGroup, Core Civic et al.
Looks to reverse judicial precedents (which SCOTUS has been often ignoring anyway).
Terminating consent degrees--those decrees that come when a local government violates civil rights and the DoJ stepped in, like when Portland was put under a consent decree because the police kept killing mentally ill people.
So.... the plan is take away health care and food support (Medicaid & SNAP, as in the Big Bad Bill), take away housing (private equity is on that), build some concentration camps, and lock up immigrants, houseless people, people with disabilities.
No one gets vaccines or health care or adequate food, so there will be a lot more death. But some immigrants or medicaid recipients or houseless people can be put to work for pennies a day.
#Disability #Fascism #Houselessness #Housing
see also https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-went-through-7-134894400
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Oregon's Housing Crisis is the fault of "Investors" driving up prices, not a shortage of housing:
From the OR Capital Chronicle:
There is no large crisis in the raw amount or supply of housing. The crisis lies in its price.
In this current decade, Oregon’s population increased only slightly, from about 4.2 million at the decade’s start, to about 4.3 million now, and there’s been no mass destruction of housing. . . .
Legislative Republicans this April complained that in the last three years only about 43,000 building permits for residences had been issued in the state, well below the governor’s plan for 108,000. But the state’s number of households rose by about the same amount during that time. The new construction that happened should, in theory, have been enough to keep up with it.
In 2023 (the most recent year available), Oregon had about 1.75 million “households” with the average household comprising 2.4 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
That same year, the Census counted in the state 1.88 million “housing units” — over 100,000 more housing units than the number of households — including “a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.” It doesn’t include some other residential places, such as trailer and mobile home parks.
The upshot is that Oregon, like most states, has more residential units than households.
And there is no crisis for people of sufficient means. Anyone who can afford to plunk down a half-million or so (which includes many existing homeowners, in or out of state) will not have much trouble finding a house. People below that level, a large part of the population, may find that a house (or in some places apartment rentals, too) are simply out of reach.
The problem with Oregon’s housing crisis is affordability. The median house value in Oregon (which reflects purchase prices) as of May was $540,300, according to online real estate market platform Zillow. One home-buying calculator estimates that if a purchaser puts down 18% for the home — the median downpayment of home buyers in the U.S., according to the National Association of Realtors — they would need to have more than $97,000 saved, and earn more than $120,000 per year to afford their mortgage payments. That means fewer than a fifth of Oregon households could afford a median-priced house based on income. (Sales by owners of currently owned houses could expand that number.)
Despite the limited pool of buyers, prices have climbed and stayed high.
Why?
Oregon’s notably strict laws on land use are often mentioned as a cause of the problem. They may contribute to it, but many other states — such as next-door Idaho — have far fewer building restrictions but still have house pricing problems as bad, or worse, as Oregon’s.
High priced homes can be more profitable for builders and developers, so they build more of them.
But the key explanation for why so many more houses are purchased, compared to the number of local residents who can buy, seems to be that relatively wealthy investors — individuals and especially businesses — are buying large numbers of houses and apartments in Oregon, and around the country.
Many national studies have found as much.
Redfin News, which tracks home sales nationally, said last August that investor home buying has been rising steadily in recent years — about 3% annually — and bought one of every six U.S. homes that sold — purchasing $43 billion worth of properties — and one of every four low-priced homes that sold.
Redfin found that during the 2nd quarter of 2024 in Portland, 13% of homes sold (valued at $511,419,529) were bought by investors, an amount rising in recent years. Many homes are then flipped and resold for still higher prices. All of that activity places upward pressure on sales prices of other homes as well.
A variety of buyers have been among the mass purchasers. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley has for several years focused on the role of hedge funds in home buys, and with U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, introduced in 2023 the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act.
Merkley called hedgefunds, “a contributing factor that has made it more difficult for middle-class Americans to become homeowners and is contributing to America’s twin crises of housing unaffordability and wealth inequality.”
Others have disagreed about how large a role the finance organizations have played. But someone can afford to buy all those houses — in many cases well beyond the asking price — and less-wealthy wage earners cannot compete.
That would be a real and pertinent, albeit sensitive, topic for the new state agency to address. Until someone does, the housing shortage for most Oregonians will go on.
#Housing #Houselessness #Capitalism
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/10/the-real-housing-crisis/
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I don't post about local things as much as I'd like to here, since we are still building up community on niagara.social, so I haven't posted about what's been going on at City Hall, but I wanted to share this statement.
The approach many local politicians have taken to encampments and houseless has been grimly racist, classist and ableist, all with a smiling face as per usual in 21st century Canadian settler colonialism. I am very thankful for all of the work the NRNC does, and for this statement in particular.
#CanPoli #OnPoli #OurHomeSTC #StCatharines #NiagaraON #Niagara #SettlerColonialism #Houselessness #Encampments #Classism
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Tune-Yard's Berkeley ticket sales support East Bay #houselessness pub "Street Spirit'
#48Hills #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ #
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We had our rental inspection this morning, I think it was fine but I won't know for certain until they get back to us and we resign the lease.
Did you know that renters in other countries don't have to jump through these hoops? That long term renting is normalised in other countries because renting isn't just seen as a step in the ladder to house ownership?
Australia has to do something, because fewer people are able to buy houses so will be renting their entire lives. Having a 6-monthly reminder (and often more frequently!) that you can be homeless at almost no notice because someone just feels like it is a leading cause of stress and has poor effects on both mental and physical health.
This is becoming worse now that home ownership is also seen as just a step in the property investment ladder, and that the goal is shifting from owning your own home to owning investment properties.
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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We had our rental inspection this morning, I think it was fine but I won't know for certain until they get back to us and we resign the lease.
Did you know that renters in other countries don't have to jump through these hoops? That long term renting is normalised in other countries because renting isn't just seen as a step in the ladder to house ownership?
Australia has to do something, because fewer people are able to buy houses so will be renting their entire lives. Having a 6-monthly reminder (and often more frequently!) that you can be homeless at almost no notice because someone just feels like it is a leading cause of stress and has poor effects on both mental and physical health.
This is becoming worse now that home ownership is also seen as just a step in the property investment ladder, and that the goal is shifting from owning your own home to owning investment properties.
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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We had our rental inspection this morning, I think it was fine but I won't know for certain until they get back to us and we resign the lease.
Did you know that renters in other countries don't have to jump through these hoops? That long term renting is normalised in other countries because renting isn't just seen as a step in the ladder to house ownership?
Australia has to do something, because fewer people are able to buy houses so will be renting their entire lives. Having a 6-monthly reminder (and often more frequently!) that you can be homeless at almost no notice because someone just feels like it is a leading cause of stress and has poor effects on both mental and physical health.
This is becoming worse now that home ownership is also seen as just a step in the property investment ladder, and that the goal is shifting from owning your own home to owning investment properties.
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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We had our rental inspection this morning, I think it was fine but I won't know for certain until they get back to us and we resign the lease.
Did you know that renters in other countries don't have to jump through these hoops? That long term renting is normalised in other countries because renting isn't just seen as a step in the ladder to house ownership?
Australia has to do something, because fewer people are able to buy houses so will be renting their entire lives. Having a 6-monthly reminder (and often more frequently!) that you can be homeless at almost no notice because someone just feels like it is a leading cause of stress and has poor effects on both mental and physical health.
This is becoming worse now that home ownership is also seen as just a step in the property investment ladder, and that the goal is shifting from owning your own home to owning investment properties.
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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We had our rental inspection this morning, I think it was fine but I won't know for certain until they get back to us and we resign the lease.
Did you know that renters in other countries don't have to jump through these hoops? That long term renting is normalised in other countries because renting isn't just seen as a step in the ladder to house ownership?
Australia has to do something, because fewer people are able to buy houses so will be renting their entire lives. Having a 6-monthly reminder (and often more frequently!) that you can be homeless at almost no notice because someone just feels like it is a leading cause of stress and has poor effects on both mental and physical health.
This is becoming worse now that home ownership is also seen as just a step in the property investment ladder, and that the goal is shifting from owning your own home to owning investment properties.
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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April 22, 2025
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
A rally to encourage people to think about the need for social housing as an issue of Canada's federal election.
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#yeg #yegdt #homelessness #housing #poverty #socialhousing #unhoused #houselessness #rally #canada #edmonton #photojournalism -
The proposed (Eureka) ordinance raises punishments from minor infractions to misdemeanor offences with jail time, outlawing not only camping in public spaces, but:
-sitting/lying in any public space
-bathing or washing belongings
-lighting warming fires#NorthernCalifornia #humanrights #Houselessness
Pg 2 of 3
Here’s a link to the proposed ordinance to review before the meeting:
https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/3202931/Unlawful_Camping_Sitting_Lying_Ordinance_-_Final.pdf -
Excellent job from the RBA.
I'll be expecting my rent to come down shortly seeing as my landlord ha... wait, what?
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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Excellent job from the RBA.
I'll be expecting my rent to come down shortly seeing as my landlord ha... wait, what?
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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Excellent job from the RBA.
I'll be expecting my rent to come down shortly seeing as my landlord ha... wait, what?
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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Excellent job from the RBA.
I'll be expecting my rent to come down shortly seeing as my landlord ha... wait, what?
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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Excellent job from the RBA.
I'll be expecting my rent to come down shortly seeing as my landlord ha... wait, what?
#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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Next time you see the govt talking about the Australian road toll and "preventable deaths", consider they deliberately choose to do nothing to address poverty and houselessness.
_____Almost 1500 homeless Australians die prematurely each year. This family hopes the death of their loved one won’t be in vain
Advocates say they are struggling to place people experiencing homelessness in secure housing, resulting in preventable deaths.
#Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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Next time you see the govt talking about the Australian road toll and "preventable deaths", consider they deliberately choose to do nothing to address poverty and houselessness.
_____Almost 1500 homeless Australians die prematurely each year. This family hopes the death of their loved one won’t be in vain
Advocates say they are struggling to place people experiencing homelessness in secure housing, resulting in preventable deaths.
#Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol
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Bulldozing the homeless is a line we could have avoided crossing.
#Homeless #MLK #Murder #Houselessness #Homelessness #Apathy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/18/atlanta-homeless-encampment-bulldozer-death -
The Ontario government says that it doesn't know why homeless is getting worse https://youtu.be/M2PtVH4r2Vg?t=804. They haven't been making the difference we expected and they expected.
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Today, encampments were torn down in downtown Guelph during a homeless shelter bed shortage. Royal City Mission who has been providing meals also had its funding cut.
Please support Your Downtown Guelph Friends who are feeding those impacted.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-feed-your-neighbours-in-need
#MutualAid #Guelph #Houselessness #YourDowntownGuelphFriends
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I just got into an argument with a shopping centre security guard because he was trying to kick a houseless person out of the shopping centre. This person seemed semi-conscious and wasn't responding to his demands to leave, so the security guard kept saying he was going to call the cops.
I asked if he'd thought of calling an ambulance, because it seemed like a medical emergency to me (me, who was a nurse for a long fucking time..), and the security guard just said that it was "obviously drugs".
Turns out when the paramedics got there the guy had a blood sugar of 1.4mmol/L (which is like 25mg/dl for the US folks).
The security guard was all like "well how was I supposed to know??"
I mean, someone who is houseless having a medical crisis from a chronic condition that needs access to specialist management and regular food?? I'm fucking shocked. Who would ever have guessed?! 🙄
#RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #Australia #houselessness #poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #housing #MutualAid #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #EvenSecurityGuards #CommunityCare
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I just got into an argument with a shopping centre security guard because he was trying to kick a houseless person out of the shopping centre. This person seemed semi-conscious and wasn't responding to his demands to leave, so the security guard kept saying he was going to call the cops.
I asked if he'd thought of calling an ambulance, because it seemed like a medical emergency to me (me, who was a nurse for a long fucking time..), and the security guard just said that it was "obviously drugs".
Turns out when the paramedics got there the guy had a blood sugar of 1.4mmol/L (which is like 25mg/dl for the US folks).
The security guard was all like "well how was I supposed to know??"
I mean, someone who is houseless having a medical crisis from a chronic condition that needs access to specialist management and regular food?? I'm fucking shocked. Who would ever have guessed?! 🙄
#RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #Australia #houselessness #poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #housing #MutualAid #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #EvenSecurityGuards #CommunityCare
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I just got into an argument with a shopping centre security guard because he was trying to kick a houseless person out of the shopping centre. This person seemed semi-conscious and wasn't responding to his demands to leave, so the security guard kept saying he was going to call the cops.
I asked if he'd thought of calling an ambulance, because it seemed like a medical emergency to me (me, who was a nurse for a long fucking time..), and the security guard just said that it was "obviously drugs".
Turns out when the paramedics got there the guy had a blood sugar of 1.4mmol/L (which is like 25mg/dl for the US folks).
The security guard was all like "well how was I supposed to know??"
I mean, someone who is houseless having a medical crisis from a chronic condition that needs access to specialist management and regular food?? I'm fucking shocked. Who would ever have guessed?! 🙄
#RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #Australia #houselessness #poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #housing #MutualAid #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #EvenSecurityGuards #CommunityCare
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I just got into an argument with a shopping centre security guard because he was trying to kick a houseless person out of the shopping centre. This person seemed semi-conscious and wasn't responding to his demands to leave, so the security guard kept saying he was going to call the cops.
I asked if he'd thought of calling an ambulance, because it seemed like a medical emergency to me (me, who was a nurse for a long fucking time..), and the security guard just said that it was "obviously drugs".
Turns out when the paramedics got there the guy had a blood sugar of 1.4mmol/L (which is like 25mg/dl for the US folks).
The security guard was all like "well how was I supposed to know??"
I mean, someone who is houseless having a medical crisis from a chronic condition that needs access to specialist management and regular food?? I'm fucking shocked. Who would ever have guessed?! 🙄
#RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #Australia #houselessness #poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #housing #MutualAid #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #EvenSecurityGuards #CommunityCare
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I just got into an argument with a shopping centre security guard because he was trying to kick a houseless person out of the shopping centre. This person seemed semi-conscious and wasn't responding to his demands to leave, so the security guard kept saying he was going to call the cops.
I asked if he'd thought of calling an ambulance, because it seemed like a medical emergency to me (me, who was a nurse for a long fucking time..), and the security guard just said that it was "obviously drugs".
Turns out when the paramedics got there the guy had a blood sugar of 1.4mmol/L (which is like 25mg/dl for the US folks).
The security guard was all like "well how was I supposed to know??"
I mean, someone who is houseless having a medical crisis from a chronic condition that needs access to specialist management and regular food?? I'm fucking shocked. Who would ever have guessed?! 🙄
#RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #Australia #houselessness #poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #housing #MutualAid #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #EvenSecurityGuards #CommunityCare
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Another reason I'm proud to live in #WaterlooRegion - this resource for how to be a good neighbour to houseless folks we may encounter is SO useful, and I'm so glad it's out there.
#homelessness #houselessness #homeless #houseless #neighbour #community #SocialJustice @waterlooregion #Kitchener #Waterloo #WR
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Daniel Atkinson Clark, a Presbyterian minister, describes benevolence. It goes abroad, and tries miseries into joy. This is the offspring of a heavenly temper.
Some contemporary preachers talk about joy as a litmus test, where someone has to doubt salvation if they don’t have enough joy. Clark, too, would have us focus on joy, but on increasing the joy of others.
How can you spread happiness today?
#christian #houselessness #ittakesavillage #wokeism #godbreathed
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They have jobs, but no homes. Inside America’s unseen homelessness crisis. (WaPo Story, June 29, 2024)
Homelessness, already at a record high last year, appears to be worsening among people with jobs.
Homelessness at record highs--in some regions, up over 60% in the past year--also appears to be worsening among people with jobs, as housing becomes further out of reach for low-wage earners, according to shelter interviews and upticks in evictions and homelessness tallies around the country.
A record 12.1 million Americans — or about 1 in 4 renters — are spending at least half of their incomes on rent and utilities, putting them at increased risk of eviction and homelessness, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Meanwhile, there is hardly anywhere in the country where a person working a full-time minimum-wage job can afford a one-bedroom rental, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Among those who are homeless, inflation continues to play a major role. In interviews with 30 people in 17 states who recently became homeless while employed, nearly all said exorbitant rents had not only tipped them into homelessness, but were preventing them from securing new housing.
“I work 50 hours a week, and it’s still really hard to keep up,” said Aaron Reed, 22, who makes $21 an hour at an Amazon warehouse near Nashville, and returns to his mother’s Hyundai SUV to sleep. He shares the back seat with their black Lab, Stella, while his mom sleeps up front.
The pair have been homeless since October, when Reed’s mother was hospitalized for covid and lost her job at a department store beauty counter, forcing them out of the extended-stay hotel where they’d been living for seven months.
Plus, everything costs more when you’re homeless, said Reed . . . . He and his mother spend $50 a day to fill the gas tank, so they can leave the air conditioner running overnight in 99-degree weather. There’s no way to cook, so they eat prepackaged foods or takeout for every meal. And without access to running water, they spend about $80 a month on large jugs of bottled water they keep in the trunk.
Deborah Bower, a dog groomer in San Ramon, Calif., has been homeless since October, after breast cancer treatments wiped out $100,000 of her savings. These days she either sleeps in her small SUV, which she parks in a movie theater parking lot, or in $95-a-night hotel rooms, where she often brings along her own dog, Bean, as well as others she’s watching overnight for clients.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/28/homeless-lack-of-affordable-housing-economy/
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Capsule Hotels
We need more of #tinyvillage of #tinyhouse next to the #capsulehotel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
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Capsule Hotels
We need more of #tinyvillage of #tinyhouse next to the #capsulehotel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
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Capsule Hotels
We need more of #tinyvillage of #tinyhouse next to the #capsulehotel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
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Jean Daille, French, Reformed apologist, writes on Colossians 3:14. He says God commands rescuing the oppressed and helping the fatherless, which is better than going about in bare feet and a shaved crown, a direct reference to the practices of Roman Catholic clergy.
Issues of social justice and charity were big among the Reformers. How can we recapture the actual spirit of the Reformation?
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An innovative program between a non-profit and Los Angeles County has a de facto real estate agency for the unhoused and it has a huge return on investment: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1207461308/homelessness-housing-losangeles-la-real-estate-unhoused
#npr #losangeles #la #homelessness #unhoused #houselessness #jenniferludden #allthingsconsidered #publicradio
