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Re: SURVIVALIST THREAD
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Homelessness Is Vexing American Cities. Do Christians Have a
Solution?
How the church should help the rising number of people sleeping
on the streets.
Across the country, American cities are unsuccessfully grappling
with how best to address homelessness. This month, Austin
criminalized sitting, lying, or camping in public. Sausalito, an
upscale community in the Bay Area canceled its annual art
festival when its location conflicted with the proposed place to
relocate the homeless population that is currently living on the
city’s waterfront. Los Angeles is considering moving forward
with establishing a government-funded tent encampment.
Nationally, here’s how The New York Timessummed it up in March
of this year.
"Homelessness in the United States rose for the fourth straight
year, with about 580,000 people living on the streets or in
temporary shelter at the start of 2020, according to an annual
nationwide survey that was completed before the pandemic.
But the report, which was released on Thursday, almost certainly
underestimates the spread, depth and urgency of the crisis, and
not by a little, federal officials warned.
Beyond the myriad factors that leave people on streets, expiring
COVID-19 moratoriums on evictions mean that millions may soon
find themselves without housing.
For decades, Christian ministries have served food and offered
temporary housing to people experiencing homelessness. Whose
needs have these organizations traditionally met? And how
successful have they been?
John Ashmen has served as the CEO of Citygate Network since
2007, previously known as the Association of Gospel Rescue
Missions and is the author of Invisible Neighbors. Before he
went to what’s now Citygate, he served in the COO role of the
Christian Camp and Conference Association.
Ashmen joined global media manager Morgan Lee and executive
editor Ted Olsen to talk about why homelessness is getting
worse, why Christians don’t always agree on the solutions, and
what it means for the church to love its neighbor when trying to
consider what is best for those on the street, local businesses,
and the safety of all.
What is Quick to Listen? Read more
Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts
Follow the podcast on Twitter
Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen
Learn more about our guest’s organization: Citygate Network
Read John Ashmen’s interview at The Exchange
Music by Sweeps
Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder
The transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola
Highlights from Quick to Listen: Episode 266
There seems to be the perception that the issue of homelessness
has worsened in nearly every American city; is that true? What
have been some of the biggest changes about the size of the
homeless population in recent years?
John Ashmen: Well, the numbers are increasing, and the reporting
of the numbers is the thing that's always suspect. It used to be
that the numbers were in the 600,000 range, as far as HUD (The
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development) was
reporting with their annual point-in-time counts. And then it
dropped to the low 600,000, then the high 500,000, but they were
always changing the definition of “homeless,” which made it very
difficult to really get your arms around it. But with the recent
point-in-time counts, you just can't deny that something is
increasing when you try to navigate through the city.
At Citygate Network, we generally say there are about a million
people who are out there. And we say that because so many other
agencies come up with different numbers. While HUD was saying we
have 550,000 homeless people, the Department of Education was
saying, we have almost two million homeless students in
American.
How has Citygate traditionally defined homelessness in
comparison to the government?
John Ashmen: We've said that if you don't have your own safe
place to return to, night after night, then you would be
homeless. The government at one point would have probably said
that but they’ve added new nuances, so if you're living doubled
up, you're not homeless. Or if you've stayed in a hotel two
nights in the last two weeks or something like that, you're not
homeless.
I think if you don't have that place that you can call your
own—whether you're paying rent or you're paying a mortgage or
it’s paid off—you're probably in a situation where you're
homeless.
It's clear there are visible versus possibly invisible
situations of homelessness, as some families may double up or
have social safety nets while others make use of shelters or
live out in public spaces. Do we see those numbers going up and
down together based on our national economy? Or are there roots
in different issues?
John Ashmen: There are just so many things that cause
homelessness. And you just have to look at the situation at the
time. Of course, COVID turned everything on its head in many
respects.
There are about 320 organizations across North America that are
part of Citygate Network, and all of them used to be pretty much
at full capacity. (And in most US cities, one of our member
organizations is the largest homeless services provider, and in
some cities, it's the only homeless services provider.) And then
we got COVID-19 and we started getting people coming in, who
were released from prisons and saying, “There's no place for me
to go.” And if you’re the only game in town, you would take
those folks in.
And then we had people who would show up and saying, “There's no
food in the house because there's no paycheck.” And then you had
people who were sleeping rough, outdoors and in uncomfortable
areas, and they're saying “It's just too dangerous out here. And
we think it's going to be safer in the mission,” and so they
would come. And so that combination of things disrupted what
would be the normal flow of understanding of who's homeless and
where they're staying.
And we're just now trying to look at the numbers that are coming
in to get an idea of if we're heading back to what would be the
normal patterns.
Did local government put in ordinances that capped the number of
people that could stay in homeless shelters during COVID
lockdown, or did the people who often stay at these shelters end
up deciding that they did not feel comfortable staying in them?
John Ashmen: It was a little bit of both. But we did have
numbers that we looked at. I was actually on the US Interagency
Council on Homelessness COVID-19 Task Force starting in early
April of 2020, and looking at the numbers coming in, we felt we
had to do two things: save lives and protect the hospital
systems. And the reason we said protect the hospital system was
that if a homeless shelter were to go hot—meaning everybody
there got COVID-19—there were not enough hospital beds in even
large cities to handle that.
So the collaboration that took place in cities was wonderful.
Ministries that probably didn't do a whole lot of talking to one
another started sharing resources, started talking, and then we
started working with health departments and in some cities,
places like the convention center, a sporting arena, or
different hotels were used to take in different groups so that
they could be spread out and be isolated according to the CDC
guidelines.
A lot of groups formally have been pretty focused on the urban,
especially center city, communities. But the suburbs have been
changing and becoming more diverse, and there's been a lot more
economic diversity as well. Has homelessness been shifting to
more of a suburban issue?
John Ashmen: Homelessness used to be concentrated in the urban
areas, probably in the roughest locations. So when you look at
some of these missions that have been around for years, they
started in areas where people were—down in the stockyards or
down the railyards, by the docks, or whatever. And of course,
the people who were homeless at the time would come out and they
would panhandle in the urban areas because that's where
passersby would be.
But what we have seen over the last decade is this seeping into
suburbia now. And there are multiple reasons. Some cities have
wanted to close the missions or move them out further from the
center city because we're losing tourist business or losing
convention business. And so they'll relocate service providers
when they relocate them.
Another thing is opioid addictions. Before, drug addiction and
being out on your own on the street used to be something that
you'd only see downtown. Now we have a younger set of homeless
youth that are in suburbia.
And so the whole complexion of this is changing, both in
location and the people who were affected.
Let’s talk more about the changing complexion of homelessness.
What are some of the other reasons and conditions that folks who
are experiencing homelessness end up falling into? What are the
different types of reasons—whether they're individual or
systemic—that these groups are often in?
John Ashmen: The reasons that people experience homelessness are
just myriad. You got family dysfunction. You have a lack of
education—that's where you get your generational homelessness.
You have people aging out of the foster care system; at some
point, as many as 40% of the people who age out end up homeless.
You have LGBTQ youth who are either asked to leave their home
because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, or they
just run away from home and end up homeless—as many as 60-70% of
homeless youth are in the category of LGBTQ.
You have the legalization of marijuana; that has really affected
a lot of cities and states where that's now legal. I mentioned
the opioids before, you have human trafficking victims, you have
individuals with post-traumatic stress disorders. The list goes
on and on.
And then you also have folks out there who with all the
government services out there, they see homelessness as a pretty
easy life. “I can sleep where I want, I can get meals in
multiple locations, I can get shoes here, I can go over here on
Tuesdays and get medical care and dental care is available
here…” And that population seems to be growing in a lot of
cities, particularly in places where it's warm and you don't
have to worry about freezing to death at night.
Has there also been an overall increase in the homeless
population in places where it's just very unaffordable to find a
place to live?
John Ashmen: Yes, of course. When housing costs are out of sight
that puts people on the street as well. And while there's a lot
of government programs to put people in affordable housing; it’s
hard.
For example, they have 66,000 homeless people in Los Angeles
right now, and they've been raising money for years to build
homes. But the number of houses that they have finished is just
a fraction of what they need, and they just can't catch up with
it. And then there’s a lot of beard-stroking wondering, “where’s
all our money going?”
And the money that's being spent there is going to developers,
it's going to study committees, it's going to all of these
places that that frankly is making people rich on this homeless
problem that we have. And they haven't solved the problem.
Christian engagement on homelessness tends to be volunteering at
soup kitchens and shelters. But do Christians need to address
this more as a policy issue? Or what's the unique thing that
Christians can contribute on the solution side?
John Ashmen: I think Christians need to be very vocal and get
involved in politics. That's the first thing. If we're going to
solve this, we have to change a lot of these lax laws that are
allowing people to remain homeless and be comfortable.
Interestingly, a lot of our organizations are saying, we are
here to help people who want to be served. We're not here to do
disaster relief. And so they have concentrated all their efforts
on life recovery programs—life transformation, we call it. And
that is something that we're starting to wonder if it's going to
be a trend.
When we did our last count of the number of beds that are out
there in missions and similar ministries that are part of the
city network, the number of emergency shelter beds had declined,
and the number of program beds had increased. And so that is
letting us know that life transformation is the reason we're
there. We're not there to provide these services over and over
and over again, without an exit strategy for the people. You
have to have an exit strategy.
So what can Christians do? They certainly can get involved in
government and help with these lax laws that I mentioned. You
want to make sure that people are treated humanely and with
dignity, but at the same time, not allowed to live like this
because it's comfortable for them in the stage of life they're
at.
And this is not to discount the people out there who have a
mental illness. The recent numbers show about 78% of the people
who are homeless on the West Coast had some form of mental
illness. There have to be mental health assessments done, and
many of our missions have put mental health clinics in their
buildings these days.
The other thing that I tell pastors to do is to stop feeding
people in the park. I think there's a lot of people who
misinterpret Matthew 25:31-46 as a license to feed everybody.
While it might be an amazing experience for the youth group, it
doesn’t do a thing for the people in the park. And as Dr. Robert
Marbut, who was the former homelessness czar said, “Nobody ever
got out of homelessness with a meal.” A meal keeps them alive,
but you have to have an exit strategy. You have to have programs
that are making a difference.
When I think of passing more laws to make it harder for me to be
homeless, my initial reaction is, how does it help to
criminalize something like this? Doesn't it just put more people
in the criminal justice system? Do we know if these policies
that essentially make it illegal to sleep on the streets are
having the effect that they're purporting to do?
John Ashmen: Well, what's missing here is a sense of
responsibility. Because of our desire to be humane, we have
taken away any sense of responsibility from people who are on
the street. Yes, there's mental illness and there are addictions
that have to be treated, but if you don't have a sense of
responsibility and you don't feel some sort of pain from living
this lifestyle, then we're going to see more and more people
there.
We don't want people arrested and thrown in jail, but we do want
ordinances that funnel people toward those places where services
can be provided. And unless you have wraparound services and you
have programs that help people with their condition in life and
getting them to understand their role in society, you're going
to just see more and more folks on the streets like we've been
seeing.
I would point to some of the statistics that were put out by the
homelessness czar Dr. Robert Marbut and when you look at
unsheltered homeless, plus those in emergency shelter beds and
those in transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and even those
in permanent supportive housing, the numbers were going down for
homelessness until the government said, “We're going to cease
services.” “We're not going to mandate services that anybody
homeless to go to see an eviction recovery counselor or a
caseworker. And we'll just say the solution is housing first,
and we'll put you in a house.”
Well, when that happened, the unsheltered homeless saw a 20.5%
increase nationally, and that across the board, that still
showed an increase in homelessness of 15.6%. And so the absence
of required services has been something that has hurt the
situation. And we're going to continue to see more people on the
streets unless there are some requirements, some sense of
responsibility.
And that does involve some laws then so be it.
Is that a fair assumption that there are people just out on the
street because even if they are working a job, they legitimately
just can't afford to live in someplace like Los Angeles, New
York, or San Francisco?
John Ashmen: Absolutely. And just to be very clear, the lack of
affordable housing is a very significant reason that goes with
all of those other reasons that I gave earlier. You have people
who are working who are homeless—they sleep in their cars or
vans, and we talked about doubling up. So that is a problem.
And solutions are being tried—the solution of tiny home
communities—that are making a difference. And that certainly is
a much better solution than encampments or tents.
Those encampments have to be dismantled. And the reason is that
they have their own subculture, and the drugs, the prostitution,
the health issues, and the fighting that goes on—there's so many
laws being broken there. So that is not a solution.
Morgan Lee: I think what you're saying is that homeless
communities have a subculture that's in some ways is detached
from employment or so forth, and there need to be stronger
incentives to help folks to reintegrate into our larger culture
and community.
And we need to be creating stronger incentives for that to
happen. Not for people who are necessarily just sleeping on the
streets because they are unable to afford a place to live.
Can you share more about the gospel mission model? And how has
that model changed over the last few years?
John Ashmen: Our missions are gospel rescue missions with a
specific focus of having the gospel being a new starting point
[for people experiencing homelessness]. We believe that the
Bible says life comes with a reset button. In 2 Corinthians, it
says, “if any person be in Christ, they are a new creation; old
things are passed away, everything can become new.” And we see
this day after day in our 300-plus organizations where folks are
deciding to start again. They're accepting the gospel as being
available specifically for them, and they trust Jesus and move
forward with a new perspective on life.
And that's not going to change in what we do. It hasn't changed
in the 100-plus years that Citygate Network—including in its
other names—has been around. And we continue to provide those
services from a gospel perspective.
Rescue is also still there. It really never leaves. Rescue is
the vestibule, that's what gets people in. People have to come
in because they have this need in their life. And they come in
the mission and see there are other alternatives. So, how is it
changing? The missions are now taking a look at how they can
help people see that there's a difference between what they're
experiencing and what they could experience. We work to get them
back into their homes.
Many organizations have done services for the hungry, homeless,
abused, and addicted people, but there's no exit strategy. And
so the Citygate Network of today is always thinking, “what is
the exit strategy?”
We put eight “S” words together to say, this is what life
transformation looks like. The first “S” is “saved”—and right
away, I need to say, yes, there are some people who come to a
mission and there's a chapel service and they make a change in
their life and they start with that idea of being really engaged
with the gospel. But when we use the word “saved” in these eight
“S’s” we mean, we saved the life. We saved them from overdosing.
We saved them from the control of their pimp. We saved them
because we've provided good nutrition, particularly when it
comes to young children whose brain and body development might
not be where it needs to be because they're homeless and not
getting good food.
The second “S” is “sober”—no longer controlled by stimulants or
depressants. After sober comes “stable,” that's the mental
health and physical health. Many of our organizations have
medical respite care. And then after that comes “schooled.”
Schooled could mean finishing your high school degree, it could
be in social skills, it could be computer skills—it's enough
education to be competitive out there.
After that comes “skilled.” Skilled it's not just helping people
get a job, but helping them understand that they could have a
career in a particular area, whether it be culinary arts or tire
and wheel balancing or carpentry or call center training, After
skilled comes “secure,” which means you're getting a paycheck
and you're learning how to manage your money.
After that is “settled.” It's your own safe place to return to
every night, maybe even taking in your relatives who have been
on the street as well. And then the last “S” is “serving.” And
that means giving back to the community.
Saved, sober, stable, schooled, skilled, secure, settled, and
serving. That's what missions are about these days. And some
city missions say, “God, didn't call me to do all of these.” And
we're saying, “Well, maybe he's called you to do the first
three. Or maybe you're just doing housing, but you need to be
partnering with other organizations that are doing the other
things.”
We can't be siloed anymore. We have to be collaborative if we're
going to see ministry work in the days ahead, particularly when
it comes to homelessness.
Ted Olsen: Siloed is the “S” not to do.
Are these “S’s” criteria that the gospel missions measure
themselves and have the numbers?
John Ashmen: We're starting to, and I'm proud to say that there
are many of our members who are getting on board and we’re
starting to measure outcomes.
Christians have been experts at measuring outputs, whether it be
in a church or Sunday school—how many buses did we have? How
many children into Sunday school? How many people decided to
trust Christ in church? We've done it for years.
Outputs measure needs. Outcomes measure success.
So we're now starting to measure how many people made a decision
for Christ and are still living in Christian community two years
later? How many people went through an addiction recovery
program and are clean and sober two years later? How many people
were placed in a house and are still living there 18 months
later? How many people who were put in a job and trained for
that job are still employed years later?
And those are a little bit harder to get because it's not just a
point in time, you have to follow people. And follow-up has
always been the difficult part of any ministry. But it has to be
done because we need to see these results, and these results are
going to be the evidence we need to say there's an
evidence-based solution to our homeless problem.
When we feel that prompting that we should do something about
the homeless, what is it that the average Christian should have
as their initial follow-up?
John Ashmen: Most people think back toward traditional
assistance, which has to do with writing a check—and those are
definitely needed because all 320 of our member organizations
don't take government funds, or don't take them if it inhibits
what they can teach and preach. And so they are dependent on
those checks.
But the other way that most people have always been involved is
with feeding, and it usually pops into their minds sometime
around Thanksgiving or the Christmas holidays. And that's
wonderful, missions definitely need volunteers—and they need
them not just on Thanksgiving—but what we have to do is look at
creative ways we can partner with places.
How about a Pastor of Street Ministries at a church? We have a
pastor of missions, we have a pastor of youth, we have a pastor
of music, and so on, but if we really are understanding what
Jesus said about the poor and how we need to engage, why aren't
churches having pastor of homeless ministries as prominently
displayed?
There are chances for people to engage. I mentioned chapel
services, that's how missions used to be. A lot of missions
still do chapel services, maybe not as often as they used to be,
but some of them have conversation specialists. So you go in and
you eat with the people who are homeless, you look across the
table, you look into their eyes, you get to know their name and
their story, and then you get to tell your story and you can
have engagement that way. That's a great way to minister. And
then you can bring some of these people back to your church. And
so that's a connection that a lot of people sometimes overlook.
And then there are many ways to partner with missions in the
education area too. There just needs to be this partnership and
not the silos. Unfortunately, there are a lot of churches who
think we can handle this ourselves, but I don't know if too many
churches that know what to do with somebody who's been addicted
to crack for 12 years.
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Re: SURVIVALIST THREAD
By: patrick jane Date: September 17, 2021, 5:15 pm
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Introdcing the Bunyip pump: Pumping water with water, only.
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Re: SURVIVALIST THREAD
By: patrick jane Date: November 19, 2021, 3:22 pm
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Washington court rules that even if your home is a tent, you
have a right to privacy inside it
Amy Roe, Former ACLU-WA Senior Writer
Published: Wednesday, October 18, 2017
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Every person has the right to privacy in their home, regardless
of whether that home is a lean-to on a roadside or a mansion on
a mountain.
By ruling that a homeless man camping on public land has the
same right to privacy inside his tent as others have in their
homes—and that police can’t enter without a warrant— the
Washington Court of Appeals this month affirmed this right.
The case, State of Washington v. Pippin, involves William
Pippin, who was living in a shelter he’d fashioned by draping a
tarp over a fence and a guardrail in Vancouver, Washington, when
he was visited one morning by police. When officers rapped on
the tarp, Pippin told them he was just waking up and would come
out shortly.
Instead of waiting for Pippin to emerge, officers lifted the
tarp, revealing Pippin sitting up in his makeshift bed; as
Pippin got out of bed, officers saw a bag containing
methamphetamine. By entering Pippin’s tent without permission,
police conducted an unlawful warrantless search of his home, the
ACLU-WA said in friend of the court brief in the case. The State
Court of Appeals agreed: Pippin’s rights were violated under
Article I, section 7 of the Washington constitution, which
mandates that “[n]o person shall be disturbed in his private
affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law.”
One’s home has throughout history been seen as the ultimate
bulwark against government intrusion, the court said in its
decision. Because a person’s home is likely to contain intimate
details of their life that must not be revealed against their
will, the law protects homes from warrantless searches.
But one need not occupy a traditional home to have this privacy
right. Courts have also found that, for people who are homeless,
closed baggage and containers are protected areas.
Pippin lived in a lean-to, but that a home is temporary does not
diminish the right to privacy within it, “nor does the flimsy
and vulnerable nature of an improvised structure. For the
homeless, those may often be the only refuge for the private in
the world as it is,” the court said.
The court rebuked the State’s assertion that Pippin’s
homelessness was a choice: “To call homelessness voluntary, and
thus unworthy of basic privacy protection is to walk blind among
the realities around us.”
Such an argument would wrongly penalize people for being poor by
stripping from them the privacy rights the law guarantees
everyone else.
“Our Constitution means something better,” the court said.
To illustrate what that might look like, the court quoted “King
Lear,” who, in Act 3, Scene 4, has been stripped of his power
and wealth, and faces a raging storm.
At last Lear sees how poor and homeless people in his Kingdom
suffer as they struggle to endure the elements. Remorseful for
his blindness to their plight, Lear implores those in power not
to follow his lead, but to instead, “Expose thyself to feel what
wretches feel, That thou mayst . . . show the heavens more
just.”
The lessons learned by Shakespeare’s tragic hero should not be
lost on us. The law exists, the court said, not only to prevent
anarchy and grease the wheels of our economy, but also to “bring
signs of justice amid our thirsts and furies and, in doing so,
remind us of our humanity.”
Doug Klunder and Nancy Talner of the ACLU of Washington wrote
the brief, which was also signed by Homeless Rights Advocacy
Project, Outsiders Inn, and Real Change.
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Re: SURVIVALIST THREAD
By: patrick jane Date: January 8, 2022, 10:48 am
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Re: SURVIVALIST THREAD
By: patrick jane Date: April 2, 2022, 5:00 am
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10 Cheap, Healthy Pantry Foods that Never Expire
There are 10 Foods you should ALWAYS have in your emergency
pantry, because they are incredibly versatile – and virtually
NEVER go bad. These are 10 cheap, healthy pantry foods that
never expire. NOTE: We mention honey in the video. NEVER give
honey to a child under the age of one.
18 minutes
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNKqOzqCx7A
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Re: SURVIVALIST THREAD
By: patrick jane Date: April 6, 2022, 12:53 pm
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Slab City - Why? How? Where? The last free place in America
In this video, I discuss Why people go to Slab City. How people
survive there, and Where is the last free place in America to
live.
9 minutes
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_doHKasJ_Ik
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