The holiday debates have begone.
“Only two people signed up for this tiny home program. The rest said they like being homeless.”
I have the logic, but not living in Colorado, I don’t have the facts. I do know they’re playing a game of shuffle board with their homeless population after some quick investigation, but nothing specific to the claim. I’ll get the article in reference if I can.
But man, how hard is it to accept that no one “wants” to be homeless.
This doesn’t make it sound like Denver isn’t doing its best.
I’ve been there personally. I was advised by two separate people involved in state vocational programs and the shelter staff themselves to not use the shelter’s street address on job applications, if it’s avoidable.
Considering the potential “one shot” you get at most of these fucking employers/companies with the unaccountable Gestapo bullshit their human resources departments are known for, and not knowing whether they retain applications for future reference if someone applies multiple times, I decided to spend some of my dwindling money on a PO box. And even then I was questioned at two different interviews about it, not too invasively but enough to further fray my nerves in an already precarious situation I was desperate to get out of.
I couldn’t even get a fucking library card when using a shelter’s street address without being questioned about it.
That’s the thing, I’m positive that there’s something that a shelter could set up to work as something that works as an address but isn’t the actual shelter’s own physical address.
By my own experience I would say it’s necessary and should be legally mandated as long as this fucked up Calvinist society and the majority of private businesses which gatekeep the ability to pay for housing maintain their bigoted stigma against destitute people.
Absolutely.