Sleeping Roughly! An Evicted Rentpayer Hollers

 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...

 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 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...

 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,...