How to ... Live in your Car?
One of my favorite web places, WikiHow, currently features an article on "How to Live in Your Car."
This might be considered extreme, except that a recent advisory from AARP addressed the same issue.
In Seattle, the land of my dreams, there is an ongoing issue about tent cities for homeless. (No, that is not part of my dream, which is just about the wonderful Northwest milieu and pioneer values.)
Maybe we here in the Northeast should think about a possibly impending problem of homelessness as income plummets and housing costs increase. Block 832, where I live, already has a population of homeless who survive somehow through church assistance and other strategies.
Plainfield can be assured that squatters will be found more and more often in foreclosed homes around the city. On the next block over to the north from Block 832, squatters this summer used other folks' water supplies to wash up and found shelter in churchyards and wherever else they could.
This new development deserves attention and analysis if governmental help may be needed. At tonight's budget meeting, one person cited a very high percentage of sub-prime mortgages in the city whose failure will lead to distress.
--Bernice Paglia
This might be considered extreme, except that a recent advisory from AARP addressed the same issue.
In Seattle, the land of my dreams, there is an ongoing issue about tent cities for homeless. (No, that is not part of my dream, which is just about the wonderful Northwest milieu and pioneer values.)
Maybe we here in the Northeast should think about a possibly impending problem of homelessness as income plummets and housing costs increase. Block 832, where I live, already has a population of homeless who survive somehow through church assistance and other strategies.
Plainfield can be assured that squatters will be found more and more often in foreclosed homes around the city. On the next block over to the north from Block 832, squatters this summer used other folks' water supplies to wash up and found shelter in churchyards and wherever else they could.
This new development deserves attention and analysis if governmental help may be needed. At tonight's budget meeting, one person cited a very high percentage of sub-prime mortgages in the city whose failure will lead to distress.
--Bernice Paglia
posted by Bernice at 10:56 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Bernice;
We already have people living in their cars. About three months ago I found out that a couple with an infant were living in their car, and as much information that was provided to them about shelters they refused to live their car for fear of getting their belongings stolen.
Then, there is an older man who also lives in his car. He has been provided with blankets and the occasional hot coffee by a community member.
This is not a new problem for Plainfield, but perhaps this time there will be a new focus into the poverty pockets that have been ignored for so long in Plainfield.
In the meantime, I'll print the article and pass it along. Thanks.
Maria Pellum
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