Comments on: Homeless and Human Rights http://www.lisamariecurtis.com/2008/08/homeless-and-human-rights/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: slumjack http://www.lisamariecurtis.com/2008/08/homeless-and-human-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-172 slumjack Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:21:39 +0000 http://lisamariecurtis.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-172 I was forced homeless by unscrupulous slumlords violating a number of laws, even blatantly, when I refused to go along with their wrongs to tenants, the community and employees. I was working for them as a property manager. I'd been offered legal protections by the city attorney for coming forward with testimony and evidence. This disappeared when the slumlords hired a couple of key local politicos with direct influence in city hall and despite a number of actual laws on the books explicity designed to prevent such retailiations. And then I found that there is virtually no "help" for someone being forced into homelessness like that, to avoid nor solve it. Most "help" is in the form of some nominal "services" more scaled to perpetuating a destitue homeless lifestyle, if a bit more comfortably and conveniently. A bit. I was disturbed to realize how many "nonprofits" there are that are soliciting funds to "help the homeless" that with would hardly talk to me or not even respond to my contacts. They must be taking their own personal salaries out of those funds to pay their rent and/or mortgages, instead. I was forced homeless by unscrupulous slumlords violating a number of laws, even blatantly, when I refused to go along with their wrongs to tenants, the community and employees. I was working for them as a property manager.

I’d been offered legal protections by the city attorney for coming forward with testimony and evidence. This disappeared when the slumlords hired a couple of key local politicos with direct influence in city hall and despite a number of actual laws on the books explicity designed to prevent such retailiations.

And then I found that there is virtually no “help” for someone being forced into homelessness like that, to avoid nor solve it. Most “help” is in the form of some nominal “services” more scaled to perpetuating a destitue homeless lifestyle, if a bit more comfortably and conveniently. A bit.

I was disturbed to realize how many “nonprofits” there are that are soliciting funds to “help the homeless” that with would hardly talk to me or not even respond to my contacts. They must be taking their own personal salaries out of those funds to pay their rent and/or mortgages, instead.

]]> By: Jesmi http://www.lisamariecurtis.com/2008/08/homeless-and-human-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Jesmi Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:15:48 +0000 http://lisamariecurtis.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-173 Laws that criminalize the behavior of homeless people simply do not achieve their central objective of removing the homeless from the city streets. Logically, in order to meet the underlying goal of all anti-nuisance laws, which is to make homelessness less visible in society, the laws should have the impact of decreasing the incidence of homelessness in the city by forcing the homeless to migrate to more "friendly" jurisdictions. Laws that criminalize the behavior of homeless people simply do not achieve their central objective of removing the homeless from the city streets. Logically, in order to meet the underlying goal of all anti-nuisance laws, which is to make homelessness less visible in society, the laws should have the impact of decreasing the incidence of homelessness in the city by forcing the homeless to migrate to more “friendly” jurisdictions.

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