Comments on: Giving Voice: Homelessness due to housing crisis

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:38:17 +0000

I call those who don’t understand as the ‘untouched’ (by life’s inequities) and those who do as the ‘touched’ (whether by experience or compassion).
Florida of all places should understand the need for a home for all is basic to sustainable lives. Always a state with large populations of retired, working stiffs and those trying to make a better life in the mythic Amerika.
Sounds like you and your husband are successfully navigating the realities of fixed income issues. But I understand the nervousness in entering each day with uncertainty as to the future in all of that especially as we age.
peace

By: Marie Bailey

Marie Bailey — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 21:57:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, Laura. We have homelessness and we have people with more home than they need. I think it’s the widening of the gap between the haves and the have-nots that make it so difficult for those who have a home to understand the plight of those don’t … especially those who have a mansion or several homes.As my husband and I get older and our income shrinks, we often expressed gratitude that at least we own our home. Food and shelter are fundamental needs and no person can properly function without them. In Florida, under the former governor, a trust fund for low-income housing was raided every year to pay for projects other than low-income housing. It remains to be seen what happens this year.

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:04:12 +0000

In reply to Deborah Brasket. Me too...

By: Deborah Brasket

Deborah Brasket — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:04:09 +0000

Such an important topic. It’s shameful that we don’t provide enough affordable housing for people like that, or transitional housing for people who suffer from addiction or mental health problems. This looks like a powerful film. I hope it will help.

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:19:24 +0000

In reply to Mary J Puckett. Too true. :-(

By: Mary J Puckett

Mary J Puckett — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:36:06 +0000

Your post made me wonder if other countries are doing any better, so I researched homelessness in Denmark, which certainly has a reputation for having more of a social safety net. Plenty of homelessness there, too, which raises a lot of questions. No easy answers.

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 23:32:34 +0000

In reply to Jane Chesebrough.

You and I share this common bond…it still pierces deep – doesn’t it?
hugs

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:49:20 +0000

In reply to Roseanne. Yes, it touches deep. It puts an incomprehensible experience into an easier to understand format to gently expose those unaware of the realities of many 'everyday people' around us.

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:46:35 +0000

In reply to Marty. You bet, Marty!

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:46:06 +0000

In reply to Brigid Gallagher. For someone in the States, it was at both one and the same time disheartening and encouraging finding this film which shows this tragedy occurring in places other than one's own country. :-(