Coalition on Homelessness
An Advocate for Homeless People
T.J. JohnstonStreet Sheet Editor Bob Offer-Westort Uses Writing and Art to Defend Honeless People's Human RIghts
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Removing homeless from sight doesn't make them go away
Paul Boden, Jennifer Friedenbach
The insatiable appetite to see homeless people disappear from our
parks, streets, business districts and tourist areas requires us all to
go back to one of the very first lessons we are taught as infants. Just
because you can no longer see it, doesn't mean it no longer exists.
Think of this the next time you play peek-a-boo with a toddler. Now you
see the homeless. Now you don't. But either way, we're still here.
Peek-a-boo!! When city government talks about closing our parks at
night and establishing expanded camping and cooking restrictions, and
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