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Dystopian California in which counties are simply bussing homeless people around instead of building more housing or providing actual services. The very definition of sweeping problems under rugs, except there isn't even the pretense of a rug

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl

I'm always appalled by the lack of empathy and the ignorance of some housed people who believe our homeless neighbors simply choose to 'live like that'. Dude, if you knew what they experience on the streets you would not even think that anyone would choose to live like that.

Two books (about other states) but that really show you what being poor in America is like and how expensive it is to be poor here: Matthew Desmond's "Evicted" and "Poverty, by America". They should be required reading

@skinnylatte this is about the UK, but I think there would be a lot of overlap: I've been trying to get everyone to read Daniel Lavelle's Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis, released 2022. Lavelle talks about his own experiences of being unhoused and those of people he knew and interviewed over the course of years.

We* think we know these things, but own-voices accounts bring them into painfully sharp relief. The path to being unhoused is so tied to disability, MH, and abuse >

@skinnylatte >people often like to say that we're all only a few pay cheques from the streets, but some people have much less of a safety net than others, and once you slip through it's very, very much harder to get back on the other side.

Lavelle's book struck me with how similar his experiences were to my own, and how I just scraped by, clinging on to being housed, both as a teenager and when I became chronically ill my 30s.

Adrianna Tan

@RubyJones thank you for sharing about the book, and your experiences.