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 ...

 The City of Louisville announced plans to take one-time Covid19 money and apply it to homelessness in town, a pressing need of course but I have comments to make; the homelessness crisis, here and evidently across the nation is at the tail-end of a housing-crisis, which is of complex dimensions, and I am utterly unsure that mere creation of 'rooves over heads' if indeed a one-time investment will in the long run solve the problem at-fundament. People become homeless, it seems, by the action of Lords of Land, on the one hand to make living-rents as high/expensive as will make real property owners remunerated to the degree so-preferred; on the end of the consumer of rental property, in a way that is less dominant in the North Atlantic tier of states, or perhaps in the Pacific West, it is obvious that what could be considered a slight downturn of finances can net removal/eviction from a property. In MY case, it seems more oblique with regard to the WHY of my eviction, as without ...