Again, the fat of being homeless

Over the last few days I've been picking up on blogs run by service providers arguing about people giving money to the homeless. In one instance in California, a tradition started by an attorney years ago of handing out literally 1,400 or so $10.00 bills was ranted about.

That's petty, and it's pretty much the same mantra of people getting a paycheck and potential job loss fear when their main objective is to help any homeless family break the cycle. What's next, arguing it's inappropriate for people to donate toys for a homeless shelter's children?

I mean, COME ON!

It's being greedy. Gift giving being questioned? "It could be used for this, it could be used for that".

It's called guilt trips. It's also called 'opening your yap and getting caught when you forgot who was reading'.

While I've advocated for homeless families and unaccompanied youth, there's plenty of residents in my community experiencing homelessness. Under no circumstances do I have the right to question anyone providing gifts to any of them, single male or female especially.

The sad thing is there's plenty of back patters for this kind of rhetoric, and without advocates to be open to stand up at times for those not underneath their 'interests', we risk our own interests of being compromised by this type of mentality.

Homelessness will continue to exist, for some time over the next century, contrary to what hype is given by any agency or lobbyist. It's not going away. But what we can do today is work for tomorrow being less harrowing and more promising for years to come...until we do in fact beat this problem worldwide.

Even when it comes to the diet of people experiencing homelessness, all potential solutions need to be looked at. Orovo, low carb diets, increases of federal funding to USDA Food Distributions...all of these even though not seeming viable need to be investigated and reported on by local advocates of every community to their lead agencies, those showing promise pursued, and success stories blogged about for the rest of the world to realize WHAT IS WORKING!

Through sharing, we can all improve the lives of all of our residents, both sheltered and unsheltered worldwide.