Reply #14: The way to help is to get LOW-INCOME HOUSING ESTABLISHED! [View All]

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There is very little in the way of housing for people with low income. VERY little. What little there was, was taken for Katrina people, leaving the rest of us with nothing. Poor people shouldn't be put in the position of having to fight each other for necessities!!!

It's time for everyone to start agitating in their communities for low-income housing. Not for shelter, not for left-over food, but for real housing.

I appreciate your post, Monkeyman, but I want to correct one thing-- most of us are NOT "mental cases".

I'm not.

A woman here who had a catastrophic illness and lost her job and then her home and has been homeless for 3 years is NOT mentally ill. She was a victim of this ugly system, and needs a place to live that is decent and safe.

Another woman here was in a bad car wreck, is now brain-injured, and needs a safe and decent place to live. She is NOT "mentally ill" -- what happened to her can happen to anyone.

What can I do, and what can I say to get people to start taking action to see to it that I and these other women have a safe and decent place to live?