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Homelessness Soars Thanks to Hamilton County (TN) DA

Hotel Occupants Safe from Sex Offenders, but Now Homeless (and Not Safe from Sex Offenders) If the Budgetel Hotel in Chattanooga burned down, displacing 700 occupants, including a hundred or so babies, toddlers and school-age kids, I’d like to think area agencies and local governments would rise to the occasion and make sure everyone had housing, food and access to medicine, clothing and other essentials…

Chattanooga

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Homelessness Soars Thanks to Hamilton County (TN) DA

Chattanooga

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Nov 22

Homeless Creation, Tennessee Style

Hamilton County DA Empties Motel in a Flash — Because 4 sex offenders lived in the Budgetel Motel on the outskirts of Chattanooga, Hamilton TN County District Attorney Coty Wamp decreed everyone would have to leave on November 16, 2022. Where to? How? Not her problem. The 400 or so people, including 71 school children and countless babies and toddlers, staying at this no-tell-motel weren’t there on vacation. They turned to this unenviable housing arrangement out of desperate necessity. Occupants, as common across the U.S., …

Eviction

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Eviction

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Nov 14

You don't owe anyone anything.

Willowing Wisp

With all due respect, we see things differently.

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With all due respect, we see things differently.

Nov 14

Very frustrating trying to get local municipalities to recognize the lack of affordable housing for…

Vincent G. Thomas

You said it, Vince! And that's why we're in such a pickle.

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You said it, Vince! And that's why we're in such a pickle.

Nov 11

Before Offering Treatment, Good Doctors Need to Further Study Family Homelessness

My excitement soared, seeing that a team of medical doctors from Harvard tackled the topic of family homelessness in the latest issue of JAMA Pediatrics, Housing Instability and Homelessness — An Undertreated Pediatric Chronic Condition. The good doctors (the docs), however, significantly missed the diagnosis and treatment. Their initial description…

Harvard

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Before Offering Treatment, Good Doctors Need to Further Study Family Homelessness

Harvard

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Oct 22

Listen, Let’s Have a Straight Talk About What It’s Like to Live With Depression

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.

My fairly new-found, developing trauma awareness leaves me numb when I think of how vast this sea…

My fairly new-found, developing trauma awareness leaves me numb when I think of how vast this sea of agony is, and how I, and probably too many others, were totally unaware and insensitive to it in the world of homelessness, where I've worked for 35+ years. I'm not trauma-immune, though what I'm now aware of in my life pales compared to what so many others have endured. Your description of depression, as you experience it, gives a glimpse into what so many others struggle to deal with. And we expect folks to pick up and get on with their lives, particularly those lives that have been shattered by economic upheaval and homelessness in addition to trauma issues.

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Oct 18

I Keep Trying to Tell Folks

Family homelessness, not a pleasant topic, skyrockets — For the past 17 years I’ve chronicled family homelessness in non-urban areas across America under my one-woman nonprofit, www.hearus.us. It’s not a popular profession. What I’ve found isn’t encouraging. But I keep trying to give voice and visibility to families I’ve met. Someone will listen and care. Exploring Family Homelessness: National & Local

Family Homelessness

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Family Homelessness

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Oct 5

My Bittersweet Return to Joliet

Calling attention to family homelessness — Hey, Joliet! I’m coming back. You might not know what I did before I left in 1990. My return needs to get your attention. I’m coming back to call attention to family homelessness in Joliet. When I left decades ago, family homelessness was just starting to inch up. The Will County PADS shelter I helped start, now Daybreak Center, run by Joliet Catholic Charities, attempted to meet needs of adults, and a few families…

Family Homelessness

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Family Homelessness

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Sep 28

I Paid Good Money for this Insanity!

Diane Nilan

The latest update--my anxiety about the hassle of this apparently defective refrigerator has not…

The latest update--my anxiety about the hassle of this apparently defective refrigerator has not been misplaced. When I'm parked and not plugged in, which happens frequently, the constant running wears down my limited house batteries. This has been a major hassle on my book tour. The noise of it constantly running is like scraping nails across the chalkboard. I spoke with a seemingly sympathetic Norcold rep who validated my sense that things are amiss in this saga. And she promised the muscle to get it right. Once I get back to IL...if I don't go crazy!

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The latest update--my anxiety about the hassle of this apparently defective refrigerator has not been misplaced.

When I'm parked and not plugged in, which happens frequently, the constant running wears down my limited house batteries. This has been a major hassle on my book tour.

The noise of it constantly running is like scraping nails across the chalkboard.

I spoke with a seemingly sympathetic Norcold rep who validated my sense that things are amiss in this saga. And she promised the muscle to get it right. Once I get back to IL...if I don't go crazy!

Sep 11

I Paid Good Money for this Insanity!

Impossible to get a working RV refrigerator? — Happiness is! My new Norcold DE-0061 refrigerator kicked on! After my previous one, same model, died after less than 8 years, I found a replacement (Norcold Guy) and had it installed (General RV, Huntley) in early August. Life in my Sprinter van (my only home) returned to normal, just in…

Norcold

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Norcold

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