-To increase the accuracy of the public’s perception of
homelessness
Contributors are designated by number only for the day on which
what we have to say is published; the numbers aren’t permanent identifiers.
The anonymity is to protect the identities of contributors, who
have every reason to fear retaliation from the shelters which are supposed to
help us, and from the shelters as employers.
I was in a transitional program at the Pine Street Inn
women’s shelter for a couple of years, about 20 years ago. They charged us 30% of our income to live in
that program; we didn’t know that they weren’t supposed to be taking our
money. A few years after I left, the
Pine Street Inn contacted me and refunded me $5,000.
I knew about a husband-and-wife team who worked for the Pine
Street Inn. They were fired for
embezzlement.
I’m a guest of the Pine Street Inn now. I have spent the last several months filling
out housing applications with an advocate at the Women’s Lunch Place. I finally asked her why I hadn’t heard back
from anywhere she’d helped me to apply.
That’s when she realized that she had messed up my address on all of the
applications. All of my housing work was
for nothing. What am I supposed to do
now?
Copyright Homeless Humans, June 10, 2019
Copyright Homeless Humans, June 10, 2019
