Sleeping Roughly! An Evicted Rentpayer Hollers

 FLASH!!! I saw from TARC28 @ ~6.35am SOLID WASTE MUNICIPAL TRUCKS on Jefferson Street, at the I-65 Underpass; THIS LOOKS LIKE MOVING-DAY AND CONFISCATED SHELTER AND PERHAPS INCARCERATION FOR THESE ROUGH-SLEEPERS. 10.6.2021 ERRATUM=> THE LAST 'FLASH' SUGGESTED THAT THE HOMELESS 'CAMPERS' DOWNTOWN WERE BEING EVICTED LIKE A WEEK AGO; THIS IS INCORRECT; THE 'CAMPERS' EVIDENTLY FACED 'THE LAST MOVE' TODAY OR SO. THERE ARE STILL NUMBERS OF TENTS ABOUT SUGGESTING, ONLY HINTING, AT THEIR DOMICILE.

 I on weekends usually take mass transit exactly through the main locales where the City of Louisville has intended 'camping homeless' to be (say, re-)evicted. There is absolutely NO SIGN that these rough-sleepers are MOVING, and reports suggesting that many (if not a plurality) of these humans have done so. I am no glutton for punishment; the police will move in very soon, by methinks the end of the first week in October, and there is occasion to speculate that (expensive! where do the campers get them?) tents and tools-campwise will sell at a Police Property sale, and that at least some 'campers' will spend time in the so-called Hall of Justice or other jail. If all things work for me synergistically, I might be able to play "friendly visitor" at the APPROVED campsite at Brook and College Streets, perhaps not really as projected to open this coming November. I am subject to a great multitude of viscissitudes, and atop would be my own finding a stayable-place...

 I have stated that the present condition in Austin Texas vis a vis homelessness contrasts as well as potentially compares to that of Louisville KY, our rootedly genteely-administered city. In both cases we are facing two left-of-Center Metropolises with a state beyond its borders that is Solid-South Conservative Republican. Austin did vote at the Council level to abet aiding homelessness by decriminalilzing what I (with hope of being utterly non-pejorative) call 'camping homelessness'; a referendum in Austin re-criminalized that 'thrown state' (to use the expression of Martin Heidegger) and the Texas legislature went further by making camping-on-public-land a crime. So I have for information-purposes to our Louisville situation been following Austin's progress in this domain; it is personally edifying, but perhaps to the SolidGOPSouth guys in Texas disturbing that just a few days ago and with revision yesterday, Travis County (say Austin) voted in about $250million...

  The City of Louisville has given 21 days notice to obvious eyesore downtown homeless camps to clear out, break camp, as I calc on or before October 4. There are homeless people who for a variety of reasons must or prefer to sleep outdoors rather than in a homeless shelter; these are the public visage in many cities in the USA, and I would think that my Louisville has camping-homeless-demographics, about 1% of the total population of this Metro, which rival those of places more-notorious for 'rough sleepers' like cities in  California. This is a liberal and progressive city. What the city fathers/mothers say about what needs to be done with this segment of homeless folk speaks to an official compassion which must at the same time consider what must be much psychosocial disdain/aversion for the spectacle of people living in tents-- and with less protection-- on city sidewalks. . . so noticeably this shows at Derby/Breeders'-Cup times when these folks are gathered and placed...

  809 South Brook Street is within "walkable" distance to me from the Saint Vincent de Paul Men's Shelter located at 1034 South Jackson; I think I could 'hoof it' to the proposed new homeless campsite there in perhaps 30-45 minutes. As well, easy mass transit is availing for me to get to this place, and I in need for 'scaling the research project' last-mentioned in this blog, starting wee and peripatetic/ambulatory/pedestrian for getting to this place I think I already have ideas for making rapport-minded intervention with this projected group of 'campers.' I am under no illusion that all my 'do good' motivation will suffice for really getting approval from the City of Louisville, and while it seems unlikely that strictly as a 'concerned citizen' with some entailed 'participation' in homeless-issues that I shall NOT do well without interference without such 'municipal' blessing=> more to the point I hope to get so...

 I am utterly uncertain whether I shall really be given scholarly allowance to evaluate the connection between eviction/eviction-court and the coming pan-deluge in this USA of HOMELESS persons, but yes I feel that some design is at any rate desirable for EXECUTING A SYSTEMATIC (SAY THOROUGH) JOB IN LIMNING THIS, OBVIOUS-SEEMING PROPHETICALLY, CALAMITY TO SURFACE I WOULD GUESS IN WINTER COMING=> 2021 TO SPRING 2022. I am instructed by Donald Campbell's "Reforms as Experiments,"American Psychologist 24(4):409-429, 1969; one might do well to note that this article emerged in psychological lit just prior to the conservative (read "Nixon-Southern-Strategy Anti-BlackHelp-Anti-Great-Society" GOP dys-wisdom) thrusts to eliminate programs which had been ushered in by the (Lyndon) Johnson Administration. . . What is important to note and keep-mental is that Campbell is suggesting that 'reforms' such as Nixon-Republicans had envisioned just prior and after 1970 ...

 Vernonlynn Stephens <vernonlynnstephens@gmail.com> 8:48 AM (1 minute ago) to George, Nima, Natalie, Catherine, Yasmine, Jerod, me Hi, George, We talked phone-wise last week about my prospects for SYSTEMATICALLY following post-moratorium eviction court proceedings; I have done what I could with limited but OK cyber-skills-usual to find adequate info about our eviction court but with what appear to be scant information-resulting, and I with some over-suspicion wonder if this obscurity is a way for 'avoiding the dirt to come out,' which in my experience does mean that governments will strive covertly to suppress evidence. Breezy Schmidt of North Dakota, as I have reported, did a superb job at such research up-her-way; she was able to get funding for start-up $ from a private foundation, and from appearances as well had above-average cooperation from the .gov Establishment to get this wealth of documentation. I think I thus 'need help' if I am to do anything able reg...

  TEXT, "NORTH DAKOTA CASE STUDY: THE EVICTION COURT'S FAST TRACK TO HOMELESSNESS" by Breezy A. Schmidt , North Dakota Law Review 93:3 https://commons.und.edu/ndlr/vol92/iss3/3   This is a very fine paper from a law review whose venue is North Dakota U based, with a 'free commons' approach to access. The fact that its location of origin is from a non-Kentucky state (most states are NOT KY laugh!) is negligible, for its content exactly corresponds to the situation for evictions/eviction-court here in Louisville, but really for minor details associated with the installation of common law use and practice of forced-detainer eviction-homelessness. I KNEW that the Lord of the Land concept so vigorous in this 'Redneck Korn Likker' place is just feudal, and so it seems to be almost everywhere in this also-Redneck country, North Dakota evidently being no exception. Here, Schmidt has given me material of great value: a clear portrayal of the English common law sy...

 Readers! It may have been brought to your notice that for a period of some weeks, I have not made entry into this web-log. I think my story re eviction has largely been told, and thus with MY story all that would remain might be a few details, perhaps closely-connected-in-mind as to be fairly redundant: I esteem THIS PART of my concerns about eviction, particularly unfair eviction, has been sufficiently-told. BUT! There is another concern atop the tale of woe which was mine (kicked out having paid rent, with no WHY given); this would be the bigger fact that the Eviction Moratorium has been ended by the Supreme Court of the United States.  THERE ARE MANY MORE PEOPLE ABOUT WHO DID NOT PAY THE RENT AS I DID AND WHO IN SHORTER TIME WILL 'HIT THE STREETS' AS I HAVE DONE. I am motivated now to play "advocate": as a student (Donovan Scholar at U of Louisville, senior citizen who can take classes free of tuition) I can tap the deep resources of my college to peruse and distr...