A Reflection on Chapter 35, Helping People Off The Streets: Real
Solutions to Urban Homelessness by Robert V. Hess
Homelessness has always been a topic that interested me from way on back. I was born to a family that while not homeless, was considered working poor. We had enough to eat, and some money for clothes on our backs but that was about it. My parents and my older brother meanwhile grew up extremely poor often times going days without eating a normal meal. For a very brief time in the late 1930's early 1940's they were homeless. At the time the government was an observing entity offering little in the way of assistance. People helped each other. Friends made extra when they had it, some restaurants offered care packages and some people even resorted to rummaging through thrown away food.
At the time of this round of homelessness (depression and right after) many of today's ills weren't in vogue. Street and prescription drugs were almost unheard of. Sure, you......
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