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 Within the past month, The Black, a head shop in Ocean Beach, California, began selling a 3 and 1/2 inch square sticker that reads, “Welcome to Ocean Beach.  Please Do

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 For most homeless people, rest is a luxury.  When people are unsheltered, they don’t have a home within which to r

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 Many people feel that homelessness will never end.  They believe that homelessness is just too big a problem to solve.  Because of this b

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Since the 1970s, as homelessness in the United States increased dramatically, some social service agencies created short-term homeless emergency shelters and transitional housing facilities to hous

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“Transient” is the new “N” word.   Although commonly used, the word, “transient,” is often used to disparage homeless

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 Last post, I wrote that we need to wake up to the issues of homelessness.

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Some of us ignore the issues of homelessness.  When we walk past homeless people, we may even pretend that these people do not exist.  I call t

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