Show me the way to go home

If I'm going to bitch every time a city screws the homeless, I should call out those cities that are at least trying to help them....

Salt Lake City (which my oldest son calls home and tells me is a blue oasis in the red desert that is Utah) has enacted a program called Homes First which is basically giving homeless folks apartments at a cost of $10-12,000 per person.  The cost of leaving the homeless on the streets?  $20,000.  The goal is to end homelessness this year.  Amen to that.

In Palo Alto, CA, a group called Project WeHOPE is seeking funding for a mobile trailer that would house showers, bathrooms, and a laundry room for the homeless to do the one thing that is probably hardest for them to do:  get clean.  While still in the funding stage, their Dignity on Wheels program would go a long way toward helping the homeless feel a lot more comfortable job hunting or seeking medical attention, among others.

They might be baby steps in a big sprawling country such as ours, but they are a good start.

Peace,
emaycee