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"More young adults call streets of Boston home; The rise in homelessness, especially among the young, an unmet challenge for city rich in promise" by David Abel | Globe Staff, January 12, 2014
It's a city that is rich in more than just promi$e.
The 23-year-old, estranged from his family in Quincy, is among an increasingly visible homeless population living amid the pricey new condos, boutique hotels, and upscale restaurants of downtown Boston.
See: Unemployed Unfit For Upscale Restaurants
He is also among a growing number of youth and young adults struggling to survive on the streets, even as the weather has turned blustery and dipped some days into the single digits.
And even in this age of economic recovery for the elite!
But hey, at least Wall Street and the Pentagon are happy and fully funded. F*** you kids.
Local, state, and federal officials have reported record numbers of homeless people, especially families and youths….
The LEGACY of OBUMMER!
The increase has been highly visible in the city’s commercial heart.
Wow. Menino's legacy that was not discussed until he left office?
Related: South Carolina City Hates Its Homeless
I'm sure the bu$ine$$ elite of Boston are thinking the same thing.
Officials at the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District have reported a rise in calls about homeless people panhandling and sleeping in the area.
Related: Panhandler Patrol
Are you $ure they aren't undercover cops?
And don't the BPD have BETTER THINGS TO DO?
As a result, this summer they began conducting monthly counts at night. In October, they found 40 people sleeping in the street around Macy’s.
Related: Macy’s cuts 2,500 jobs
Not a very good holiday season, huh?
How many of them will be sleeping in the street right outside?
With several shelters, soup kitchens, and a range of other services in the area, the homeless have long taken refuge in the alleys and alcoves from Boston Common to the Greenway. What’s changed are the expectations of new residents, business owners, and others who now frequent the neighborhood, said Rosemarie E. Sansone, president of the district.
“What’s happening is that property owners are seeing improvements in investments, and the area has become cleaner,” she said of an area that was once called the Combat Zone. “They’re seeing all these improvements and wondering why we haven’t made an impact with homelessness.”
I'm not.
"A strong stock market and better business climate have continued to concentrate American wealth in the top 1 percent of earners."
Wonder no longer!
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported last January that the state’s homeless population had risen 14 percent since 2010 to nearly 20,000 people. The number of homeless students, preschool through 12th grade, is at a record high and has doubled in less than a decade in Massachusetts, with 935 living without their parents or legal guardians last academic year, nearly triple the number of the 2004-2005 academic year.
Get used to it, kids, what with the student loans and all.
But hey, look on the bright $ide: at least Wall Street and the Pentagon are happy and fully funded.
In October, the state put up an average of 2,100 homeless families a night in motels, a record. On some days, for the first time, this number exceeded the number of families living in shelters, according to the state Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development.
The problem of homeless youth, who local officials say account for a rising number of those living on the streets in Boston, has become so magnified in recent years that Bridge Over Troubled Waters, the city’s leading provider of social services to homeless youth, opened the state’s first shelter for them in 2011. But demand has continued to rise, and the nonprofit organization last year began allowing additional youths to sleep on mats on the floor of its recreation room….
Mark McLaughlin, coordinator of the organization’s outreach team: “We’re seeing kids stay with us year-round.”
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At Youth on Fire, a drop-in center for homeless youth and young adults in Harvard Square, Ayala Livny, the organization’s program manager, said, “That’s a massive failing of our system.”
And we have the be$t one ever devised in the history of man!
The rise in homelessness has many causes, including the long stagnation of the economy and persistently high unemployment rates, surging rents throughout the state, and sweeping federal spending cuts that have taken a toll on some housing and food subsidies for the poor.
I'm tired of the hor$e $hit excuses trotted out by the paper of elite wealth, sorry.
Related:
"The deal buoyed Wall Street investors. Guggenheim Partners, a financial services firm, concluded that as a result overall Pentagon spending will remain relatively the same for the next several years before it begins to grow once again, at about 2.5 percent per year."
And Congre$$ was able to get home for Xmas, too!
Meanwhile, unemployment is still being held up, food stamps have
elapsed, and nothing else you need is getting through the $hit Congre$$.
Go figure.
For many, mental health and addiction issues and the weight of past criminal convictions can make it easier to tumble into, and harder to escape, homelessness.
Yeah, it is YOUR OWN FAULT! Just forget the FRAUDULENT FORECLOSURE SCANDAL and the government and industry policy of offshoring and overseeing jobs.
So WHEN are the WEIGHTS of CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS going to make the BANKERS HOMELESS, huh?!!!!!!!!!!!
Why the toll seems to have hit young people so hard is less well understood, but they are affected by the same trends that have stressed families across the country. Many of them gravitate to Boston, where they can blend in with the thousands of college students, find services that are not available elsewhere in New England, and live in a city more tolerant of differing sexual orientations.
(Blog editor finds it insulting and offensive that the agenda-pushing $hit bucket would drag the gay issue into this. How shameless! Homeless is homeless, and there is no distinction. What a piece of rank rot $hit is the Boston Globe!)
To better understand youth homelessness, the state convened a special commission in 2012 that this month will launch the first statewide census of those homeless and alone up to age 24. That follows the first count of homeless youth the previous December in Boston….
Translation: they wanted to appear like they were doing something about the problem so they set up an arm-flailing commission. They fool you?
“Young people will be asked to stand up, be counted, and share their experiences of homelessness and housing instability, with the goal of using those responses to shape policies, housing programs, and comprehensive services,” said Kelly Turley, director of legislative advocacy at the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless and cochair of the commission….
Umm, well, yeah, they did. It was called the Occupy Wall Street movement, and it was disparaged, denigrated, and insulted by the elite stink paper of wealth here -- and then the kids promptly had their heads bashed in by the state to clear the Common and all.
Yeah, stand up and be counted, kids -- as long as you bend over for the dildo of government and the political correct agenda. Anything other than that, sit down and shaddup!
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Oh, I'm so, so grateful the ba$tion of corporate liberali$m and elite wealth is taking the issue of wealth inequality so seriously -- just in time for the shit-fooley known as the political campaign and midterm elections is getting underway!
Oh, I know, rather than blast the Boston Globe I should be on my knees thanking them for putting the issue on their front page and all, yeah. Meeting the latest $will coming from the $tink agenda-pu$hers with anger and reprobation isn't helpful, blah, blah, blah.
Well, F*** THAT! Where the hell have they been the last 30 years other than push the agenda that has delivered us to this situation? And now they are going to fix it?
Time to give the Boston Globes a home…. in the recycling bag.
