By Kelly Keagy, Communications Manager, The Living Room, July 28, 2020. Who could ever have predicted that we would all be living through times like these? I know I am not alone in having to give myself a pep talk (on a regular basis) so that the daily news cycle does not overwhelm me. […]
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How Racism of Supervisors and the Business Alliance Works
By Terry Rowan, July 21, 2020. Racism is a serious charge to make and I don’t make it casually. It is useful therefore to distinguish between the intent of an act and its effects, which can be quite different. Like the tone-deaf statement uttered by the now resigned Director of the Business Alliance “All Lives Matter,” (his answer […]
What are Solutions for People Without a Roof?
By Scott Wagner, Project Manager, Sonoma Applied Village Services (SAVS), February/March, 2020. In this bald-faced example of a wealthy county that doesn’t provide their destitute anywhere near adequate shelter, we have several handholds that would help easily. First, the public desperately needs education by their officials that providing basic life services to those experiencing homelessness […]
What it’s like to be a Point In Time Homeless Count Volunteer
By Gail Jonas, a Healdsburg resident. March 3, 2020. For the past two years, I’ve participated in the annual homeless count in Healdsburg. In Sonoma County, we do this count every year, although HUD mandates that it be done every other year. In 2019, our shelterless had experienced two law enforcement actions* against their camps, […]
