Exclusion presumes unbelonging, but there is no Planet Homelessness from where our neighbors experiencing homelessness emerged. Homelessness is a homegrown problem. Most of our unhoused neighbors were once our housed neighbors — and family members, classmates and friends. It’s long past time that we start treating them as such.
This book was left on my porch by my friend and neighbor Cardie. She follows the work of the Homelessness Task Force here in Fairfax City, which we work to give as much visibility as possible. One of the suggestions at the end of this book is to gift this book to someone else. That’s a great suggestion in moving forward a conversation addressing homelessness “not as a problem to be solved, but as people to be loved.”
What you will find here is individual stories, research, statistics, data, and public policies gathered from around the country. We can see with our own eyes the increase in people who are living unhoused in our community, and yet that is the tip of a very large iceberg that includes so many families, children, and others who are invisible among people in this country without stable housing.
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