Black and white photo of Portland and Mt. Hood with 'PREORDER NOW' at top and image of ECHOES OF THE LOST book cover at bottom
ECHOES OF THE LOST AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER. Follow retired Detective Ster McCaffrey as he navigates through Portland in the hope of finding the mother of a boy left on his front porch.
@friendlybrown
#PNW #Portland #Oregon #mystery #crime #novel #houselessness
“Too often we fail to put humanity at the centre of the story. Some lives don’t fit neatly onto a spreadsheet.”
--Eireann McAuley, at the Homeless Network Scotland conference in December 2025
homelessnetwork.scot/2025/12/17/i...
#homelessness #houselessness #livedexperience #policy
Common myth: substance use causes homelessness.
"Several studies have concluded that an area’s median rent correlates far more closely with its homelessness rate than factors such as weather, poverty rate, and rates of mental illness or substance use."
#houselessness
www.pew.org/en/research-...
Dear Creator, are we all just frogs in boiling water? Or y'all just #Overwhelmed ? #YQR #YQRCC #Sask #SaskPoli #Taxes #houselessness #ClimateChange #TaxHikes #TaxRevolt #GeneralStrike #ItsTheEconomy
No place to grow old. Documentary about rising rates of senior homelessness in Portland, Oregon. Screening Grants Pass on Tuesday 5:00 at the Fruitdale Grange
Rogue Valley folks: screening this Tuesday.
#houselessness #aging
CPH Daily Bulletin 10/15/2025
Safety, unhoused top concerns for many at local parks
http://lapublicpress.org/2025/10/public-park-safety/
#LosAngeles #Parks #Homelessness #Houselessness #GangViolence #LAPD #HarvardPark #Crime
In the wake of yesterday's snoozer of a "Mayoral Debate" in which 3 white men asked 3 conservatives, 1 moderate & 1 blowhard stereotypical Qs, all perpetuating a narrative of an underperforming city, here's a more informed commentary: open.substack.com/pub/civicgoo...
#urbanism+
#YEG
#Houselessness
they are burning the masks in front of our faces
it's coming... *they* are coming...
#houselessness #homeless #fascism #fascismwatch
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
they are burning the masks in front of our faces
it's coming... *they* are coming...
#houselessness #homeless #fascism #fascismwatch
From a few weeks ago, my first crochet project, hats for the unhoused. Many gracious thanks to my daughter for her endless patience teaching me!
##crochet #houselessness #bethegood
Trigger warning: a #Policy based on #Science. Guess what? The root cause of #Houselessness, aka #Homelessness, is the extraordinarily high cost of housing! housinginitiative.org/uploads/1/3/...
😡😡😡
I was homeless 5 fucked up years... This is not the way!
#Homeless
#Houseless
#Homelessness
#Houselessness
www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...
"#Mortalityrates remain disproportionately high. #Blackwomen are unequivocally
overrepresented among #women #dying while #houseless in #LosAngeles County. Data
from the Public Services Division reveals that 1,715 persons, who were examined by the
ME-#Coroner between 2018 and 2019, were noted as […]
"#Poor #mothers are often laying on the precipice of #houselessness due to a #welfare
system that fails to support them and their #children. #Evictions are one mechanism
through which the state has successfully unhoused women and children. Following the
repeal of Rule 1 (#evictionprotections) in […]
"As the #2028 #Olympics loom and #gentrification creeps throughout #DTLA, the #2040DTLAplan takes shape and does not make accommodations for #Blackbodies. The only plan for the growing #Blackcommunity in #SkidRow is banishment, and legislators have been creative in crafting legal tools to […]
Being an activist (and former journalist) in #LosAngeles, I have been a fan of the #LosAngelesCommunityActionNetwork for a decade, at least. #LACAN has a lot of great research, programs, and policy initiatives for individuals facing #houselessness in the region. I just wanted to share their […]
#PoverelloCenter We are committed to promoting & providing a range of services to improve the health & #security of people experiencing #houselessness in the Missoula community. Yet to visit Montana Idaho or Wyoming but 1st Tues month Zoom webinar! Invite to #KellyClarksons house a joke but options!
For years, cities & states have significantly ramped up their inhumane efforts — fueled by the #GrantsPass ruling from #SCOTUS — to criminalize people experiencing #houselessness. The #HousingNotHandcuffs Act would be a big step forward from this crisis. #Congress www.votervoice.net/NHLC/campaig...
“Over and over, people across the country told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses. We gave them notecards so they could explain in their own words how the sweeps have affected them.”
click on any notecard to read their stories
#sweeps #houselessness
so nice to see that Mark Carney is surrounding himself with a whole big fucking pile of established white men - that's the price we paid to keep PP out of office - but we are still fucked #climatecatastrophe #houselessness
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Also available at the podcast spots. If you subscribe, it's waiting for you!
📸 Jeff Hunt
#homelessness #houselessness #housing #substanceusedisorder #fentanyl #drugs #opiods #nonprofits #SanFrancisco #KeepItLocal
April 22, 2025
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
A rally to encourage people to think about the need for social housing as an issue of Canada's federal election.
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#yeg #yegdt #homelessness #housing #poverty #socialhousing #unhoused #houselessness #rally #canada #edmonton #photojournalism
The latest #MMN #RichDick, #ElonMusk, wants to build a #space #death #laser
#houselessness #homelessness #StarWars #GoldenDome #taxes #USPol #Musk
https://means.tv/programs/mmn
Hey y'all! These folks do a lot of good in their community! Please check them out and send what you can. #helpsky #mutualaid #fundsky #houselessness #disability #Freestore 💞💸
www.instagram.com/p/...
From 2020 and still very true #Houselessness #Wraparound #SupportiveHousing
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
This was for the recent Sask Provincial Election but the issues are Federal too.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #CanadaVotes2025 #Houselessness #CostOfLiving #HealthCare #Education #ClimateCrisis
