When there are not enough Homeless Shelters to shelter all of the homeless, where are they to sleep and be?
An end to homelessness is possible
When enough people stand up and demand it, we can beat the years of government apathy and neglect and see California go from being a State that continues to have homeless sleep on the sidewalks or hiding to sleep and or live under some overpass or somewhere worse, and become a world leader in addressing homelessness.
Across the Golden State of California, people are coming together, speaking up in support of safe and affordable housing for all people and at a minimum, SafeGround land areas for the homeless. Our movement is powerful and we want all homeless people and/or those who are lacking enough funds for housing to at least have a legally recognize land area to go to, so that they may sleep and/or live there until they improve their living situation, We are working with our government representatives that are willing to help and we are committed to holding politicians accountable when they fail to deliver on housing promises and/or other necessary things that people need.
Find out more about what you can do to get involved, and spread the word that together we can end homelessness.
We know we want it - let's make it happen! TAKE ACTION
Homeless people are entitled to a safe place to sleep and be,
even if it is just some
legally approved
ground to be
safe on.
When
there are not enough Homeless Shelters to shelter all of the homeless, where are
they to sleep and be?
Definitions of Homelessness
The
definitions of 'homelessness' vary, with cited authors providing their own
definitions.
We, SafeGround.org, make no attempt to reach one definition of
‘homelessness’, but rather acknowledge the variety of meanings of the term, and
yet we do believe that there is consensus among all, that a person needs to have
a location that they can return to safely and legally to shelter them, at which they may live, this at a minimum, to be not considered homeless.
We have specified the problem of, Homelessness, as that of not having, (a safe place to
sleep and/or live). SafeGround, being at the very least, land
areas), that are available where needed for the homeless and/or those lacking enough funds for housing,
needing a place to sleep and or live, as there are not better options available
to them, such as acceptable public housing.
These SafeGround land areas should be as free of regulations and government oversight as possible. As an example, if a homeless family with three children went to one of these SafeGround land areas because of economic hardship as an example, and put up a tent and lived there, the Federal, State, and Local Governance of them should not be much different if any then if they were living in a house that they owned on their own property.
The challenges of Homelessness
There are many causes of homelessness,
including the lack of shelters, insufficient affordable housing and housing
supply, low income, the gap between income and affordability, mental health
and/or substance abuse issues, family conflict, violence, job loss, breakdown,
and inadequate discharge planning (ex-offenders, mentally ill persons, and
persons leaving the care of the child welfare system), and many other causes.
A Village, a Home, a
SafeGround
SafeGround.org
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