Sleeping Roughly! An Evicted Rentpayer Hollers

 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 ...

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...

 The homeless shelter in which I stay-- not unusually for its genre-- requires that I leave right at sunrise, that is before 7am, and come back not earlier than 3pm; this means as a retiree that I must find excuse-able places that will be largely if totally immune from 'cops,' particularly the nastiest cops who are security guards, who in my own experience will too brashly try to en-force 'rules and regs' with the command-bearing of one who is dealing with say a murder-case. This is especially true, this overbearing over relative innocence, in the Main Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. . . What I have experienced there at Third&York lib suggests to me, in a way that may not be excessively 'paranoid,' that my transgenderF station may provoke enforcement of minute, almost unspoken rules that rather have to be 'invented' ad hoc, sometimes with the OK of the library administrators, otherwise with what a person, particularly a homeless person,...

 I live in a shelter as homeless person; I HAVE briefly needed to do 'rough sleeping' only when refused (as transgender female) bedding in shelters that variously DO take the transF folks (names already heretorfore mentioned in this blog, need not then repeat I think). I ask-around to get a gut-level view of what 'the public' and the homeless themselves regard as the prime or central motivation for this 'camping' as I have striven to call this kind of domicile; in this as well my own impressions as forced participant-observer in Louisville homelessness adds timbre and hue to the surmise I have gotten about these matters of 'having not where to lay one's head' even as homeless Jesus said. As with a lot of 'news' that does not appear in print or electronic media, I happen to use taxicabs for transit, in small part to see how the 'cabbie's view' of this condition frames an attitude not so publicized. I have polled about 8 cab drivers...

 I am enrolled at the University of Louisville, thanks-be to my own sense of what Abe Maslow called "B-values," and have-now great potential to do research at the 'bibliographic level' if not as foot-soldier doing field research on the homeless in this town, essentially as a participant observer yet with a sense of rigor as a trained social scientist who knows 'how research should be done.' Ekstrom Library at the UL Belknap Campus is a kind of  'second home' to me, a comfortable place in which I can operate at the level that best-boosts my elan as a thinking-person, as career-student with then almost no concern that I am a look-alike-woman or moreover that I am a homeless look-alike-woman, a condition re which I have been informed, and re which with some softened reality as sheltered-homeless can well report. "I am reading the Lit" as scientists say when beginning an empirically-aspiring assay; in searching TheWeb now at Ekstrom, I have parti...

 I, homeless but sheltered do too go to St. Martin of Tours (not my Anglican affiliates in Louisville) for Mass around 10am on Sundays that I have been in St. Vincent de Paul shelter for men (on Jackson Street in the 1000-Block); TODAY  AT THE SHELBY STREET @ BROADWAY EXIT-BUS-SHELTER GETTING OFF TO HEAD TO ST. MARTIN'S I SAW A WOMAN LYING ON THE SIDEWALK, WEARING A BLACK BREAST-TOP OF COLOR-BLACK, JUST BARELY MISSING THE DISPLAY OF HER 'MILKERS'. . . We as social scientists know of 'culture shock'-- this psychic disruption was approximately what I felt on sight of this nameless woman, and I suppose that some of the say 200 people who went to 10-o'clock service at St. Martin's-- if not the people passerby on TARC (the Metropolitan Transit Authority buses), if not TheCops, and there too was I. . . One who too slept rough-on-the-sidewalk for the first night in my life on or about the 19tclah of May, the second night that is of claiming but an open sky for my b...

 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- City leaders are launching a four-phase plan to get Louisville's homeless off the streets and into long-term housing. The first phase would create and manage a "Safe Outdoor Space" that would include services to help people find more sustainable housing. The next phase would offer a quick transition to indoor housing in a safe and supportive environment. The plan also aims to create more permanent supportive housing options and increase funding for affordable housing. TO THE CITY/LOUISVILLE, TO COALITIONS-FOR-THE-HOMELESS-ALL, TO THE 'CAMPERS' WHO ARE HOMELESS, NOTICE=> TRY FORMING HOUSING CO-OPS/COOPERATIVES WITH ACCESS TO NO-FRILLS SHELTER, ORGANIZED WITH MEMBERS AS A 'BOARD OF DIRECTORS' WHO HAVE PROVEN RESPONSIBLE AND RELIABLE IN MANAGING AFFAIRS-- CERTAINLY HERE FOLK WHO HAVE NO HABIT WITH ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES NOW, CERTAINLY THOSE WHO HAVE NO SATYRIAC/NYMPHOMANIAC DYSFUNCTIONS. OTHERS CAN BE 'SMOOTHER SLEEPERS' IN...

Yasmine Jumaa of local News&Information-NPR station WFPL cites the immanent forced eviction of 'camper-homeless' in Louisville, a process which she says will commence in South Louisville very soon-- I think she said this Shively-area-evident camp will be crashed and destroyed on this coming Monday. She reports that 10 complaints were lodged against the city to have the camp eradicated, and that SOMEWHERE SOMEWAY SOMEHOW THE CITY WOULD COME UP WITH LIKE $3BILLION FOR (VERY LOW-COST) HOUSING. (REALLY, HOW SO? EVEN THIS YASMINE KNOWS THAT CHEAP LOUISVILLE WILL GRUNT AND GROAN NOT TO DO ANY SUCH BILLIONS FOR ANYONE AS CHEAPSIDE-NOW AS I smile smile i am smiling. . .) My enttry for this moment reaches back into what I know to be this Community-so-called-for-Liberty-Justice-4All's moral predicates and presumptions, for verily I am of this culture deeply and by heritage and learning, and can rather predict its motivations (by social-frames as psychologists term the factor, of ...

 I heard on arrival at St. Vincent de Paul Mission/Shelter for men yesterday that one resident had come down with Covid; the missing bed next to my 'room' suggested that the one who had succumbed was a Latino named rather nicknamed "Cuba" (I think his real name was Hernandez), a jolly fellow who gave me no problems for being transgendered-- not a universal where I 'spend my nights.' Cuba was pretty conscientious about mopping our floor, and was not defensive about the ribbing-- in male-pattern-bonding form-- that   that he got from the other (more typically male than I) men up there. He kept an American flag on his wall, and listened to Latino music which to my unlearned ear sounded yes Cuban. Cuba out, somebody new in=> the Shelter here is no place to ass u me that one has a guaranteed hovel in which to take refuge; I learn and relearn that not much in my life and living now is anything but unstably fragile in station. The best I can do now to carve out so...

  PHONE MESSAGE TRANSCRIPTION FROM APRIL 12, 2021, FROM ERICA BRYANT (THE LANDLORD'S DAUGHTER AND, SEEMINGLY, MANAGER OF BRYANT PROPERTIES) This is Erica Bryant. I was returning your phone call. We it's not that we're we filed an eviction on non-payment. We file an eviction on a lease termination. I sent you a letter on January 8th for a lease termination and it will not be extended after February 28th, since you didn't move by then that's 12,000 eviction. It has nothing to do with non-payment. So no amount of money can keep you in the apartment, but I do have two of your money orders. You're saying it's for number 20. I have no idea. All I was going to do is return this money to you. I have a money order dated March 1st for 360,000 March 18th for 360. We have not deposited into our accounts or anything. I've been waiting to get those back to you. But yeah, it's just it's a lease termination. Not not a non-payment of fiction. It's a lease ter...

 AP JUST RAN A STORY APPEARING IN GOOGLE NEWS ABOUT EVICTIONS=> THE FOCUS OF THE STORY, A NON-FICTION, WAS A LADY WHOSE SITUATION WAS LIKE MINE, ONLY MY MORAL AND LEGAL STANDING WOULD BE MORE SOLIDLY OK=> THE LADY OF THE AP FEATURE, TARA SIMMONS, HAD BEEN A MONTH LATE IN RENT, I WAS NOT LATE AT ALL WITH THE LANDLORD ARTHUR BRYANT IN RENT, AND HAVE SOMEWHERE IN GOOGLE VOICE RECORDS THAT THE BRYANT DAUGHTER CONVEYED TO ME THAT SHE WOULD PAY ME FOR ALL THE RENTS I PAID IN 2021 MEANING THAT 'BRYANT' FIRM OWES ME, BY THEIR OWN ACCOUNTS FROM MY JANUARY 2021 RENT PAYMENT TO THAT FOR MAY OF THE SAME YEAR (I WILL NOT TAKE BUT CASH BECAUSE ALL THEY CAME UP WITH WERE LEGAL INSTRUMENTS MADE OUT TO BRYANT LIKE MONEY ORDERS OR CHECKS YES I WANT CASH NOW, THOU SHADY DEALERS OF BRYANT-KIN!!) THE LADY IN THE AP STORY HAD LIVED IN HER PLACE 4 YEARS; I HAD LIVED AT 3640 MANSLICK ROAD APARTMENT 18 FOR JUST OVER 10 YEARS, AND HAD BEEN A SOLID RENTPAYER DURING THOSE YEARS AND FOR ANOTHER PERI...

 I just opened a set of pictures Googling 'homeless camps in Louisville,' and have become aware that journalists other than myself have been monitoring continuously the plight of 'rough sleepers' in this Metropolitan Area. Prior to this moment of having-not-home, I was not completely aware of the vast extent of 'camping' in this fashion here, my suburban living in Southwest Louisville deprived me of a viable perception of the extremity of this condition, a social problem yes, but much less so for validating social revulsion in this community, but more-so a terrible condition for those who must endure these vulnerabilities and face the gauntlet of shunning and legal ostracism that 'camping' in the midst of a great Metropolis will by necessity present. THE PICTURES which are many as available to see from bum this Louisville LOOK MESSY; but real people endure and abide in these makeshift domicile-places. I am aware that WDRB and other commercial electronic ...

  Loitering , indecent exposure => these are charges a cop knows and on which makes arrests; those who have no-place as I am will if cardiac-cases will OR if normal find themselves loiter-able indecent-exposure-able on the streets of Louisville=> this means time like in "The Hall of Justice" (with some irony I think, what-our-main-jail is dubbed laugh). It is almost categorical that the workaday cop will treat this sort of trespass as good for jailing the perp, which means, of course, that for in usual cases exceedingly small charges, the homeless person can cycle into jail, and with some also-usual amount of time awaiting arraignment, and likely plea of yes-I-did-it, will have the criminal sanction imposed on her/him (yes there are women out there peeing and loitering just as I, imperfectly-but-passably-and-aspirational-ly 'womanizing' no laugh, poker face for this comment!) So this entry is about the potential human needs of this excremental and aerobic sort...

 The eviction moratorium in Jefferson-County/Louisville KY has come to an en d. I must anticipate that what this city shall witness is a huge increase in the homeless population, beyond our now-incredible showing of  'bag people,' 'shelter-dwellers,' and 'campers' at common sites all over town. It could mean that I with a shelter at St. Vincent de Paul (for men) will have been the envy of those now almost surely destined for the kind of 'sleeping roughly' that I see for myself and for a substantial if undercounted cohort of homeless here. I do not know if by comparison with other metropolises, Louisville is more 'eviction crazy' than any other comparable demographic area. All I know is that IF in the face of federal and state injunctions against evicting folk-- particularly people as aged and as challenged by health problems (heart needing open-chest surgery according to some doctors, cataracts both eyes (blind in right), NOW vaccinated for C19, ...

Yesterday, I had the occasion to take a cab from the Louisville Free Public Library to the mission/shelter where I stay ( St. Vincent de Paul [for 'men'] ); the driver for the cab by his accented speech suggested to me that he was/is from Africa. As I get conversations with cabbies to 'check the news' as many people say they do as well, I happened to ask him what he thought about the great number of "campers" all about town. . . He said he had never seen anything like it, which to me was telling-greatly, because of his origin from what likely was a Third-World country, and he spoke as well of his terror of the plight one might have by 'being without digigalized ID or money $,' and said to my concurrence of opinion that the "cops"/police in Louisville are NASTY, especially to his hue of complexion (Black). The cabbie went on to say that he was aware that at "Derby Time" (the Kentucky Derby, first Saturdays in May unless disruption [...

  ALL I NEED IN THE WAY OF SHELTER, DOWN TO BASICS, AS AN EXTREMELY INDEPENDENT CIS-M TRANS-F, WOULD BE A PLACE WITH NO      STEALING      OF MY STUFF, AND SHELTER FROM THE ELEMENTS; IN POINT FINE, WAREHOUSE SPACES HAVE SHELTER FROM THE RAIN, AND MAY-- WITH CERTAIN PROVISIONS-- HAVE SECURITY ENOUGH TO VOID THE STICKY-FINGERED PEOPLE FROM TAKING-- AS WAS THE CASE IN MY MAY 12 (2021) EVICTION-- MY VALUABLES NOT JUST INCLUDING HERITAGE-LEVEL CLASSICS COLLECTION OF TEXTS (GREEK, LATIN, HEBREW, COPTIC, GERMAN) BUT MY ONE COMPANION IN THAT UNVISITED OR VISITED-RARELY #18 APARTMENT 3640 MANSLICK ROAD 30215; THIS IS JUST     IT!     I PRICED WAREHOUSE SPACE IN LOUISVILLE AND I COULD GET THE EQUIVALENT FLOOR SPACE FOR $150 (RENT FROM MR. BRYANT WAS $340; I    DID TOO     PAY HIM 360 AS SOME GOOD-WILL ARRANGEMENT WITH IMPLIED FEELING THAT IN SOME WAY HE WOULD THENCE BE LESS-WILLING TO KICK-ME OUT). WATER COM...

 On or about April 12, this year, I had attended my Eviction Court appointment; I can say that such litigations as here are done in the Hall of Justice, downtown in Louisville at 6th and Jefferson Streets. As I had been having immense trouble with my bank ( PNC ), I for example did not know whether the rental-payments as WERE supposed to be taken from my bank account indeed did happen, so I brought with me significantly more cash than the entire year of rentals would-have-been. <Simply stated, my bank put up 'roadblocks' to finding out just how much money-- or not-so in OD-- was to my credit, and that did irritate me enough to this moment for me to have a happier account with L&N Credit Union, just some few blocks from here where I sit in the Louisville Free Public Library.> I had as I said enough cash to 'pay away' the usual problems that would be the concern of an eviction legal proceeding, as if indeed on some chance that I was behind in the rent-- eventua...