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EXAMPLE 1, TRANSPORTATION

 

My wife and I who were so very blessed to own a car (so we thought) while we were homeless ran out of funds for gas. From the parking lot we parked at (where we slept in our car at nights) to the park (where we showered every morning) is about 12 miles. We went to every church in town and looked in the phone book to call every government agency we could find to get a gas card. We instead had to panhandle — quite a learning and most humiliating experience! It was a few months from that time that we finally found a church that had one last gas card for us that we used to return to Los Angeles County. Fortunately, we were still in the system at the Los Angeles County DPSS. People don’t realize how difficult and expensive being homeless can be when you live in a car and when your only income is food stamps and where General Relief is a loan whether you can work it off or not. General Relief should be just that a general form of relief, not just money. There should be a caseworker constantly and directly involved in your life until you become self-sustaining, industrious, and thrift. The current system of General Relief is extremely difficult to make a transition from on a permanent basis, especially when you are dealing with health conditions like I have been.


We relied on our car, our only place of residence, to survive and to keep ourselves from being violated in many ways by law enforcement, businesses, and the general population, and even our fellow homeless people who give homelessness a reputation that is stereotyped and certainly not true of all homeless people.


What about those who do not have transportation? How can they get around without access to public transportation? How does society ensure that they will get to where they need to go so that they do not become another statistic – John Doe, age ##, unidentified, a parent, sibling, or child not knowing that he was the man they had been looking for all these years and whom for some reason he was unable to find them as well. Fortunately for us, we have no family who would know or care what happened to us as evidenced by the rejection and abandonment we experienced while homeless, so sadly this concern will apparently never apply to us.