How To Support Your Unhoused Neighbors!
“I’m destitute in California since the rent is absurd.”
La D, a 36-year-old unhoused resident of Van Nuys in La, California, informs me over the telephone. “Where may be the person working at, like, a McDonalds living at? I do not understand how they are doing it.” She’s right-in renter-majority metropolitan areas (like LA), housing costs have risen tremendously quicker than, say, minimum wage, which largely plays a role in a rise in being homeless.
There is a common misconception that something separates housed residents using their unhoused neighbors. Though, statistically speaking, 59 percent of american citizens are one or two paychecks from being unhoused themselves-which was pre-pandemic! There isn’t any doubt that COVID has exacerbated that reality, specifically for individuals ...