Sleeping Roughly! An Evicted Rentpayer Hollers

 Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer just announced that open property has been set aside for 'campers' as I call the homeless people who prefer, or who cannot do otherwise than, sleep out of doors, and not (as I) in a shelter. At this link, I have posited a link to the transcript of this announcement and its speakers there and then. The property is downtown, more properly stated than as being in 'Old Louisville,' and is located at the former site for Roman Catholic Chancery Office, 212 E. College Street. The land is close to me, at St. Vincent de Paul shelter for men (1034 South Jackson Street); it is even closer to the Salvation Army GHQ and the Franciscan Free-Luncheon/Shelter. The City predicts that the campsite will be operational in November of this year. Evidently the Louisville planners/executors fothis campsite idea got 'leads' from the cities of Denver Colorado and Santa Rosa California, which venues report negligible crime etc. associated with this move. I ...

I THINK TOPIC AT HAND TIES DIRECTLY INTO YASMINE-JUMAA'S JOB ASSIGNMENT AT WFPL, "RACE AND EQUITY ISSUES"=>  Advocates! I DID read "Making the Second Pandemic. . .," the article from the law journal which I forwarded-gmail to you. For the most-part, I have to agree with what the authoress said to this effect, "The pandemic is frequently described as exposing and exacerbating every gulf, divide, and inequity inAmerican society, almost all of them race and ethnicity-based: between those who zoom at home to those who work in fulfillment centers, nursing homes, and meat-packing plants;[ 49] between those who pick up curbside carryout and those who wait in line at food banks.[ 50] Persons of color, already disproportionately under-employed and under-housed, were positioned to be disproportionately injured.[ 51] Prepandemic, that injury was already acute in the distribution of housing that is "affordable" and "available."[ 52] " Moreov...

 I am following Websites that proffer information about homelessness, in especial, sites that either ADVOCATE for the rights of the un-homed, and too those Websites that allude to resources that the homeless may use to further themselves for providing shelter. There are a lot of sites which have this function, .orgs, .govs and a few but evidently OK .coms. I just found a link that has folks un-homed in Eastern Los Angeles rather 'taking over' vacant properties which (for some odd-seeming reason) are owned by the California Transit Authority (which seems similar to our Louisville Transit Authority of River City TARC). From where I sit now, these in-dwellings have a semi-glow of "burglary" of a sort that might even be acceptable under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at its introit , ". . . it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights  should be protected b...

  WLKY reports last night that local trade-unions are banding to rehabilitate a house for a homeless veteran ; these seem to be in connection with Habitat for Humanity and other NPO agencies. . . laudable efforts and quite rendered in a spirit of needed and uncommon altruism. BUT!!!! In Kentucky, veterans constitute just under 10% of the state homeless population, in 2020 estimated to be 399 persons of a total homeless population of 4011, according to a federal report . In Louisville, it would appear from a comparable-period report by the City and The Coalition for the Homeless, veterans constitute an even smaller portion of the total homeless-demographic=> just under 6% (5.9%, 85 persons of a total there-counted of 1421 -- noting well that other City reports have it that more than six-thousand people are homeless here) . THE NEED in the Big Picture would the-better consider not just fixing a home for one person/family, which in the sort of case as usual with Habitat for Humani...

 According to Weather Underground and the news media, this week in Louisville will be WET; from now Monday August 16 until next Sunday, we are expected to get showers and thunderstorms. It would appear that the for-me lucky dry spell that we have enjoyed in these Kentucky Dog Days will come to an interruption if not an end, and that I shall have to figure out ways to duck-in/duck-out of semi-monsoon weather here in an important effort to stay-dry. The mission in which I stay-- St. Vincent de Paul-- is of the usual sort expecting that we residents be out every day until mid-afternoon, "rain or shine," and I have been lucky to avoid getting soaked by common summer downpours, not a pleasantry for one who for example must appear in offices and clinics in a way that to non-homeless folk 'looks presentable,' but more to the point, I will do, must do to remain communicative with a cyber-world that in ideal form would benefit by hearing about my haphazard surviving on the str...

 I am, perforce of avowal and perforce of 'girl hormones' that take away 'the only thing re which men are interested' (sex, the women say), not excessively interested in 'gender-ing' with anyone; the-girls from this vow I deem rather TOO HOLY for my romance, and the-men simply do not attract my attention in usual ways at-all. My position and stance with regard to my transgenderedF status is over-largely a matter of REPENTANCE, and the clothing I almost always wear (dresses of some length, showing minimal flesh) consists of what I want to show that I HAVE FAILED AT MAN HOOD, FROM 2009 I HAVE FAILED AT BEING A MAN, AND SOLELY IDENTIFY WITH THE BELOVED GENDER TO WHICH/WHOM I AM WITH UTTER RESTRICTION DEDICATED. Nevertheless, I 'get it' erotically from both men (typically in the ShelterWorld in which I dwell) as well as from woman-kind. In all these 'warm exchanges,' I try courteously the 'shrug' the approaches away, but I notice MORE FLIRTS ...

 I am homeless, and-- absent corrective surgery-- I shall go blind. I am indeed, as I have stated herein, blind with cataracts in my right eye, but with the left eye and strong diopter glasses, the left eye's cataract is not so bad and I can read with it. I need cataract surgery. . . .but I am homeless-in-a-shelter and I do not think it will be easy to get time (at least seven days of inactivity) from my shelter due to its confirmed rule that residents will have to 'be out' from the place from about 7no-later-am to no earlier than 3p. This is a commonplace with many Louisville shelters, and certainly I can neither expect to get a breach of 'the usual rules' nor find a better or just kinder place from which to get surgery soon. I saw the   opthamologist  assigned to my by University of Louisville Physicians and my optometrist on Friday, yesterday August 13, which was at a clinic called Lions' Club Eye Center; this Dr. Washington said I best should have cataract s...

One who visits Louisville downtown for the first time, or visits infrequently as had been the case with myself up to my personal catastrophe on May 12 this year (ejection from home without ID or $1300 at hand that could have gotten me a motel), ONE CANNOT BUT NOTICE THE GREAT DOMINATING VISAGE OF THE-HOMELESS ALL OVER, PARTICULARLY CAMPING BENEATH SUNDRY OVERPASSES IN TOWN. A ccording to Google's summary from the city housing-for-homeless report of last year, 6986 persons are variously (sheltered and unsheltered) in Louisville as of 2017 ; that would be a portion/population of  6986 /617790 = .01130805; PubMed, in a special report re Covid 19 nationally, estimates that the average nightly demographic for 2017 homeless people in the USA is 500000; as then the population of the USA was 325.1million, the fraction corresponding to that-above would be .001537988 , a much lower 'percentage' than here in this town at the Falls of the Ohio River. There is something called an 'o...