Do we need more activist explanations that parse such critical details as ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ homelessness, as well as the specific health challenges suffered by the ‘chronic’ homelessness (not to mention ‘chronic’ homelessness itself)?
Of course we need more, to the point where every citizen can be aware of this increasing world-wide crisis.
But underlying the data are a whole bunch of just plain folks caught out by circumstance. This is a side of homelessness that can well be supported by ambassadors.
Who might they be? What follows is a story that cannot usefully be explained with data, is in many ways an exercise in futility, and will probably cause municipal lawyers to swoon en masse at potential legal liability to a city.
It’s a fine little piece of homeless ambassadorship, though. Read more at THE BIG ISSUE: Homeless man who built wooden house on pavement: ‘People understand I’m just in a bad situation’
As for those who prefer their ambassador offerings in more literary form, here is the fourth volume of Leah den Bok’s “Nowhere To Call Home”. More about the series at CTVNews: Collingwood author’s new book aims to humanize homelessness
