social workers

I posted on this earlier, but George Diaz nails it here by showing that ignorance, combined with a heaping plateful of hubris and scornful contempt for people they know nothing at all about all contributed to Sanford's disgraceful shuffle of a Project Homeless Connect event from their city.

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New Orleans decides to do something positive for their folks in Tent Cities....

Let's hope it doesn't take this level of chaos for our own city officials to "do something" to help put the most needy of our Homeless into housing, but seeing Homeless people walking with bandages, catheters and bags of prescription

As times get tougher for the vast majority of middle and lower income Americans (I hate the term "class;" it's offensive and completely misleading, not to mention stigmatizing in a sinisterly Orwellian way) demands for services from providers dealing with

Well, we'll see if this'll stop the more egregious cases of dumping but believe it when I tell you that our own hospitals here in Nashville send folks packing all the time who could certainly use some time recovering in their units before being discharged back onto the streets.

Amy Griffith reports on the school rezoning recommendations of an 11-member task force led by MNPS school board member Mark North:

We've got one Housing First program here in Nashville, as I've mentioned previously, Fisk Court.

Totalitarianism will come to the United States via the efforts of government social workers like these in California. The story's from February but I just ran across it via the Sam Adams Alliance website.

Many who are homeless work but don't earn enough to pay rent.

This is true in damned near every city across the nation right now and the answer is remarkably simple, really - subsidize rents for those earning less than x amount of money per year, with that amount to be determined based on market rate rents in individual areas....<

A couple of quick things here - putting 375 cops in one square mile ought to have the impact of reducing crime and problems - that's a no-brainer.

Housing first.

Housing foremost.

Housing.

Period.