Subject: Homelessness

• We Hear Houston Is Lovely. Have You Tried There?

  February 21, 2007

• Choose Your Own Press Cover

  December 19, 2006

• A Dispatch from the Streets of Houston

  May 31, 2007

• Another Dispatch from the Streets of Houston

  June 5, 2007

• Another Dispatch from the Streets of Houston

  June 18, 2007

• Walking to Los Angeles

  July 19, 2007

• After Three Tries, Homeless Advocate Gets His Day In Court -- And Loses

  It was the trial of the century! Well, err, maybe not ... but to Nick Cooper it felt like it took that long to finally get the right to fight a traffic ticket in Houston's municipal court.In early May 2007, Cooper was handing out apples to a group of homeless people in an alley near the 2000 block of Crawford in Downtown. Suddenly, the cops showed up and began telling the homeless folks to move along. Cooper, a musician, blogger and journalist for www.indymedia.org, began taking pictures of the

  June 2, 2009

• A Modest Proposal: Train the Homeless to Be Better at Being Homeless

  February 29, 2008

• No Miracle on Main Street

  A homeless woman's plight highlights the harsh realities for the disabled poor

  December 9, 1999

• J.R. Richard: The Human Condition

  September 2, 2004

• The Library's Patience For The Homeless Apparently Has Expired (Updated)

  The grace period at the Houston Public Library for all undesirables is officially over, it seems. A Houston police officer confronted some members of Food Not Bombs on Monday night - the group serves food to the homeless outside the library - to tell them to start thinking about another base of operation. "There were some other cops talking to some homeless people about an incident with a drunk woman, so at first it seemed like they were a part of that, but as soon as they started talking to us,

  January 14, 2009

• Houston's Housing

  August 17, 1995

• The Bender Difference

  June 13, 1996

• Library, Homeless Advocates Meet; It's "Chill"

  This afternoon, the folks from Food Not Bombs, a local group that serves vegan food to the homeless four nights a week in front of the Houston Public Library, met with some people from the library to decide how they could avoid another confrontation. "It was a lot more chill than I expected," Nick Cooper, a member of Food Not Bombs, tells Hair Balls. "What we really realized in this meeting was that you can't really call the downtown library anti-homeless, because they're providing all kinds of

  January 30, 2009

• The Larry David Show

  May 14, 1998

• Bum Deal?

  September 17, 1998

• Ay, Caramba!

  Mythical euphemisms and Hispanic panhandlers

  April 9, 2009

• Houston's Working Class Gets Bumped by the Crashing Economy: Hardcore Homeless

  March 19, 2009

• Houston's Working Class Gets Bumped into Homelessness and Poverty by the Crashing Economy

  An already strained system struggles to accommodate a new breed of homeless.

  March 19, 2009

• John McCain's Neglected Veterans

  The candidate's fame is based on his POW status, but he has abandoned his fellow veterans time and time again

  October 16, 2008

• “Understanding Poverty”

  September 11, 2008

• Giving Moore

  May 4, 2006

• Dyde in the Wool

  July 6, 2006

• Bakery-Fresh Battle

  August 10, 2006

• Mail Call

  Homeless Alone

  March 8, 2007

• Homeless in Suburbia

  Michael Lyddon slept on this bench at night because he had nowhere else to go. According to elected officials in Fort Bend, though, he doesn't exist

  February 22, 2007

• Sloppy Seconds

  It's off to war with the Food Fight Lunch Mob

  September 7, 2006

• They Walk Among Us

  A closer look at a spiffy downtown park reveals it's crawling with rats

  August 4, 2005

• Life on the Sunny Side

  A lucky few homeless people experience life ten miles out from the Pierce Elevated

  March 31, 2005

• No Way Out

  How can homeless sex offenders comply with the registration laws?

  January 20, 2005

• Signs of Struggle

  Two new installations at the Galveston Arts Center explore the darker sides of life

  December 23, 2004

• Free Lunch

  Freegans prove there is such a thing as they Dumpster-dive for food for themselves and the homeless

  November 25, 2004

• Stretched to the Limits

  June 26, 2003

• Dead End

  Downtown redevelopment and economic doldrums are taking Houston’s homeless into even harder times

  June 26, 2003

• GET and Pre-Existing Conditions

  Friday, January 31 and Saturday, February 1

  January 30, 2003

• Begging for Help

  Downtown cafes find an unexpected ally in the effort against derelicts

  October 3, 2002

• Not Just Soup

  At the Love-Joy Ministries kitchen, there's dessert and good deeds, too

  May 23, 2002

• Street Scenes

  A Leisure Learning class discovers the truth about homelessness: It's no place for the uninitiated.

  November 23, 2000

• Mission: Impossible?

  SEARCH's mobile outreach team tries to help Houston's homeless off the streets

  August 17, 2000

• Downing

  Survival Skills. The Star of Hope women's shelter puts on a new face in the wake of a shooting attack

  October 28, 1999

• Placed in the Discard Pile

  About to be booted from the Fourth Ward, poor people are being told they are too poor to qualify for public housing in Houston

  October 28, 1999

• Civil(ity) War

  Does Houston have to get tougher on street people with new laws?

  July 22, 1999

• Hydrating The Homeless In Houston

  Photo by shrff14 On a recent afternoon of triple-digit heat, Big Country was passed out on his back in Tranquility Park. He awoke with a roar. "God! It's so hot!" Country grabbed his suitcase and made for the air-conditioned library. He was stopped at the door. Suitcases, at least battered ones with sleeping mats on top in the tow of known homeless people, are not allowed inside. Still groggy, Country argued with the security guard, who was kind but unyielding. Then he dragged his suitcase

  July 7, 2009

• New Way To Help The Homeless In Houston

  Photo by Mike GiglioThe "After Dark" shelter program at St. John's Bread of Life is up and running, giving Houston a small push toward the method of dealing with homelessness that has been embraced for years in much of the country. The conversion of the former day center -- located on corner of Gray and Jackson under the Pierce Elevated bridge, where many of the city's chronic homeless congregate to take advantage of its popular services -- has been in the works for some time. It provides a se

  July 20, 2009

• Houston's Own Professor Gates Incident, Except With Homeless People

  ​It is not against the law to feed the homeless. Nor does this require a permit. Deputy T. McGilbray of the Harris County Sheriff's Office was apparently unaware of this during his patrol on July 19, when he interrupted a local church group's weekly Sunday afternoon homeless outreach in James Bute Park, demanded a "permit to serve food in the park," and then handcuffed and detained one homeless man and one church volunteer who questioned what he was doing. Tom Berna was in the park, which

  August 3, 2009

• Trying to feed the homeless? Not so fast! Meanwhile, METRO blows $80K congratulating itself.

  August 13, 2009

• Stimulus Money: How To Stop Homelessness In Houston Before It Happens

  ​When Lorenzo Timmons was hurt and out of work last summer, and finally ran out of money to pay the rent, he had little choice but the unthinkable: to gather his wife, daughter and whatever he could carry and move his family into a homeless shelter. The Houston Press reported in a cover story early this year (People Like Us, March 19) that the specter of previously stable, working families falling into homelessness was becoming increasingly common in Houston -- and that there were few opt

  October 6, 2009

• A Homeless Night To Help The Homeless

  Photo courtesy of SEARCH​Want to experience the joys of homelessness -- sleeping under the stars, free dinner -- without any of the risk (or just support the cause of trying to end the problem)?On November 14 local non-profit SEARCH Homeless Services will host its second annual "SleepOut" event, in which participants organize teams and solicit donations as in a charity marathon. Only instead of working up a sweat, "Sleepers" earn money by spending the night in Sesquicentennial Park.Sleepers sh

  October 19, 2009

• Metro Vice President To Homeless: Stay Off Our Train

  ​Todd Mason is the vice president of real estate services for Metro. At the time of his hiring, there was some concern that by hiring Mason and dabbling in big-time real estate development at and around Metro properties, the transit organization was extending itself far beyond its mission statement, which reads: METRO is an innovative regional transportation organization of dedicated employees committed to partnering with the public and private sectors to provide the safest, highest quality se

  November 6, 2009

• Rider Agrees: Get Those Homeless Off The Light Rail!!

  ​Earlier this month we wrote about how a Metro vice-president blatantly told some citizens that he considered part of his job to be keeping those nasty homeless people off the light rail. Let them take the bus, he more or less said; the light rail is for winners.He has at least one supporter in that theory. Here's an e-mail we've received that heartily endorses the policy: the homeless and the trian where shall I start....I take it none of you there take the train on a daily basis to go to wor

  November 20, 2009