Homeless in Berkeley at 21: A Young Father's Story (The Atlantic)

[daredtowork]

Last edited Sat Feb 14, 2015, 01:03 AM - Edit history (1)

This is terrific - The Atlantic did a story about being homeless in Berkeley. I like that it mentioned that there's not "government money" to fall back on here.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/02/homeless-in-berkeley-at-21-a-young-fathers-story/385428/

Since the interview took place on Telegraph Avenue, I'd like to also mention that the Berkeley political establishment seems to be making an effort to "disappear the problem" as we speak. I wrote about this on DU a few days ago: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10409068

I was going to try to question Berkeley's City Council on this at their monthly meeting this week, but I had a medical situation and wasn't able to.

I want to point out that this homeless father would be one of the people being "disappeared" of Telegraph avenue, though.

(xposted from California Group)

[daredtowork]

2. No comment? Really?

Kind of bummed this dropped to the 4th page with no comment. Perhaps its not clear that this article appeared in the Atlantic at the Powers that Be in Berkeley vacuumed the homeless off Telegraph Avenue instead of doing something about homelessness.