Sleeping Roughly! An Evicted Rentpayer Hollers

  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...

 Last year, when the issue of homelessness THEN was only felt distant, when I felt there WOULD BE NO SMART REASON TO EVICT ME AS RENTPAYER, AND A KIND RENTPAYER, AT THAT, the National Alliance to End Homelessness pressed a 'white paper' limning the situation that homeless transgender people experience. I have 'scanned' this article as a fairly-swift reader with more-than-fair comprehension skills, and in summary The article states that the number of transgender people becoming homeless is INCREASING; most of these trannies do not find shelters in which to stay, and correspondingly, the unsheltered majority of them have perils in excess of their comparable cis-gendered homeless folk. The comparison, across the board, is clear that the unsheltered of these are more prone to abuse, being-drug-into-jail, disease and mental disease; moreover THE PERIL FOR BLACK TRANSGENDERED HOMELESS IS EVEN MORE DIRE ON THESE VARIABLES THAN FOR WHITES. The report states that almost 30 trans...