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Seed packets, sharks distract from “the Big One” — family homelessness
I’ve been stewing about what to write for my much-ignored Medium blog. Not that I’ve lacked topics about families experiencing homelessness. It’s just hard to compete with (alleged) Chinese seed packets showing up like lottery invitations in the mail and the invasion of hungry sharks in Maine’s chilly waters.
If you follow my Facebook posts, you’ll see I’ve been hammering and yammering about the vast number of households with homelessness knocking at their front door thanks to the eviction epidemic. In all my decades of working on this issue, never have I seen massive homelessness looming as I do now. I wish I was wrong.
The Paducah Sun gets it right with their slew of metaphors: perfect storm, tsunami, tidal wave, natural disaster, ice storm. Senator Mitch McConnell’s state doesn’t need another economic hit, but that doesn’t seem to inspire him to push through the pandemic relief plan.
The article points out what it will take to protect the Bluegrass State from an economic drought. “Data provided by the National Low Income Housing Coalition suggests that Kentucky alone would need $965 million to keep people housed and make landlords whole through May 2021.”…
