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Sentenced to indefinite homelessness It is universally acknowledged that the first wave of homelessness occurred when the mental health system was abolished. Many would argue that a second wave of homelessness occurred when vast amounts of affordable housing were eliminated. I would argue that a third wave of a more desperate, intractable, and frequently violent […] You can read Part I of this series about homelessness and our prison system here. Get on the bus Each year, for 130,000 Californians, the prison door is unlocked one day and the question now becomes – where do you go? And how do you get there? Do you get any money? If so, how […] If you work as a doctor in a clinic for the homeless, you see all kinds of simmering panic. There’s the God, someone’s got to help me panic of the person who lost their house to foreclosure. There’s the fatalistic panic of a street person with a hard, bone-rattling cough who senses, deep inside, that […] |
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