Homeless Writers Coalition

03/12/2018

Forget about law and order and civil rights - just arrest as many as you like! Probable what? That's just for the rich folks..Isn't it ?(!)

L.A. police on Tuesday defended stepped-up enforcement against the city’s exploding homeless population, conceding that officer-led outreach teams and other alternatives had failed to halt a rise in arrests of thousands of people for unpaid tickets or other minor offenses.

03/10/2018

A succession of mayors have tried different fixes since homelessness emerged as a crisis in the 1980s, but if the problem continues to climb at current rates, it will swamp even the best efforts.

03/09/2018

Well...Hopefully we'll be able to operate on this machine and we'll be able to complete the story of the Homeless Writer's Film and Field Office, and Project Hope , and Project Truth which proceeded - that is if your interested enough to read it.This might not be the space for you. Only two people bothered to respond to the story, and, disappointingly, very few people have offered intelligent commentary, meaningful opinion ( which I know you must have - some of you are teachers and educators for Christ sake!) on which we can build constructive dialogue. Either , your afraid to express thos opinions openly in a public forum (Oh My God!)

The Homeless Writers Coalition was established to give a voice of self expression to large and ever growing segment of our society that has been repressed

02/13/2018

12/19/2017

Gee Chauncy, what will they think of next?

Last fall, right around the time Dean Harrell rolled a sleeping bag on the hard ground of the newly opened Courtyard homeless shelter in Santa Ana, a crane was dropping shipping containers into pla…

12/18/2017

The Guardian interviewed and misquoted me a bit - but it's all good!

The UN’s Philip Alston is an expert on deprivation – and he wants to know why 41m Americans are living in poverty. The Guardian joined him on a special two-week mission into the dark heart of the world’s richest nation

12/06/2017

Good Morning Skid Row!

12/04/2017

Source: http://cnb.cx/2mFT6EA

12/04/2017

Just when you think Donald Trump couldn’t do anything more disturbing, you find out you were wrong. Trump is mulling a move to cut a heating program from low-income Americans that would go into affect this winter. This report from Maine explains in further detail: “President Donald Trump has pro...

11/28/2017

Nothanksgiving! How do they expect people to find self-esteem, self-respect, self-dignity, when they are confronted with this for days (yes the BID, the City,
whoever! will not pick it up! Too Much? Right here in front of LA Can!WTF! ) Bad smelling, rotting trash, human dedication, excrement - Lord help us!

11/28/2017

Elvis is in the house! In the... umm... Things Found Once Lost living "Arts" installation .