Costa Mesa Homeowners Put Wrong Values First

The City Council in Costa Mesa are mulling the idea of allowing low-income housing for homeless folks to be built in the area.

As many as fifty people could be helped by the proposed facility - until now, Costa Mesa has had nothing like it.

And the response from local homeowners?...

'It could pose a safety risk and hurt home values, they said.'

These self-absorbed fiscal myopics wouldn't last two weeks on the streets. But they're happy to let everyone else stay marooned on the curb, as long as it means their own homes don't lose value.

Homelessness on the Rise, SNAP cuts adding pain

A new survey says more than 20,000 people are homeless, in LA alone. Over 2,000 of them are under 15.

The SNAP / Food Stamps program is due to be cut by more than $4-billion, and the recent Budget deal by Congress means millions of people who have been unemployed for more than a year will lose their benefits right after Christmas.

So it's about to get a lot worse.

To be faced with a problem I know we can fix, and still be denied the means to even vaguely address it is frustrating to the point of incoherence...

Our Veterans Deserve More Respect

We couldn't agree more. To reward those who risked their lives to protect this nation with a park-bench and hand-outs is unjust and a national disgrace...

Homeless Children Project

In January of this year, 22,712 children under the age of ten slept in homeless shelters. Just in New York. Nationally, the number is nearly 3-million.

We are going to give those children a way out of this unwarranted misery and provide them with a new home, from which they can gain the education they need to build the life and the future they have little chance of seeing if nothing is done.

To us the solution is clear: The Banks currently hold over 3-million foreclosed homes. We are going to purchase those homes and donate them to Shelters and homelessness-related Non-profits. Their staff will then help clients with children to move in and get their lives back.

There is no cost to the Shelters, the parents or anyone who helps them.

It gets better: While the project can help thousands of people it will not cost the taxpayers a dime. Quite the reverse; Even if we only reached half of the 2.76-million children now in Shelters and their parents only got minimum-wage jobs, the nation would still gain over $5-billion in new revenue from their taxes in the first two years alone.

But the benefits to the children are the biggest motive, and those should be huge.

We believe this project is among the most formative investments in childhood any organization could ever attempt; Children are the very fabric of this nation's future, and to believe they could fulfill this pivotal destiny without a decent education or the emotional stability of a home of their own is both irrational and unsupported by all current research.

A solution, even one that might sound as 'left-field' as this, is desperately needed. It will turn hundreds of untended eyesores into clean, well-kept homes filled with children whose lives have finally regained their potential.

And we believe such proactive support of those who must eventually inherit this land is both an imperative task and our communal duty.

If you would like to help turn this simple plan into their daily lives, get in touch and let's give them a chance...
 
Appleseed Humanity.

Giving Homeless Children a Chance.
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Iowa Students Fight Local Hunger

Students in Iowa have just collected over 520,000lbs of food. Thanks to them, low-income families in the area will have a decent meal every day for about three months.

The Students have been doing this every year since 1986. So the question is this..

Why is it still up to them??

Homelessness Thrift Store Looted by Thieves

Kind folks at a Thrift Store in Missouri sell lightly-used items to raise funds that help Homeless people rebuild their lives.

In the early hours of Monday, thieves stole almost everything that wasn't nailed down...

US to Spend $2.8-billion on Halloween

This is the kind of news that heads straight for your waistline...

Child-Minding for the Clinically Lazy

A new smartphone app lets you track your children while they're out Trick-or-Treating.

It's a neat, and certainly geeky idea, but wouldn't a parent who actually cared about safety just go with them instead?...

Number of Homeless Students at All-time High, says report

When those who are the very threads of its future have no safe place to sleep, the nation itself is in eril...

CNN Money

NYC Survey Floats Homeless Solution: More Homeless People.

New Yorkers don't think Mayor Bloomberg's done a good enough job helping the homeless, but they've got a suggestion for how to do better...

Put them back on the streets.

I think we just found the reason why NASA is not based in New York.

Bankers and Real Estate Experts - You can Help

Our project to rescue and rehouse homeless children is finally making some progress. The project can save as many children as we can find, but we need Banks and Real Estate experts to help us find the homes.

 

If that's your line of work, we should talk. We can buy as many clean, marketable homes as a Bank can provide, but we have no direct sources. Yet. If you can change that and help some great kids get a home of their own at last, let's work on the details and get this done.

Appleseed Humanity

San Luis Obispo, CA.

Help Us Save Homeless Children

We're a non-profit with a plan to rescue and rehouse the 2.8-million children now trapped in homeless shelters across the US.

The project is viable, ethical and can save every child we can find, it will not cost them or the taxpayers a dime, and it will not only help resolve the foreclosure crisis, it will add more than $5-billion to this nation's economy in the first two years alone.

We are offering a strong income for no work and no cash investment, and a partner's funding is even insured by the Bank; Yet all we can find are avaricious, unfeeling ingrates who couldn’t be concerned by these children’s predicament if they were lined up before them on fire.

If something is not done to resolve this injustice a large portion of those who are this nation’s future will have their entire lives and potential constricted by an education so superficial it would be challenged by a career in food service.

And for reasons that conspire to evade us, a large number of seemingly sentient beings have no apparent issue with that.

We've faced endless frustrations for almost a year. We’d now welcome suggestions on how to achieve progress and rescue thousands of great children from such undeserved pain.

Be well,

Michael J. Austin,
Appleseed Humanity,
Giving Homeless Children a Chance.
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If You're Homeless with Children, Read This...

If you are, or know someone who's homeless and has children, we want to help you escape the shelters and build your life again.

Over the last 18-months we've developed a system to give homeless people and their children a home of their own so they can get a new start. We opened a Crowd-funding project to create the seed funds, but in almost six weeks it raised less than $1500.

That made it pretty clear that the people who have homes couldn't care less about those who don't, so we now want to talk to those who truly understand the pain of being homeless and want it to stop as much as we do.

The plan is simple: We're going to buy foreclosed homes from the banks, clean them up, then donate them to Homeless Shelters all over the country so their clients with children can move in and restart their lives.

And you won't get stuck with a mortgage; If you're chosen by your Shelter, you own the house. You can then make it your home.

People tell us this is the most ridiculous, expensive and crazy idea any Non-Profit ever had. We say it will give thousands of people their lives back, and help those who are this nation's very future get the well-rounded education they deserve. And that's not so dumb.

We've faced endless greed and indifference from everyone else who could help, but if you like the idea, leave a comment and share this page with friends. Then follow us on Twitter and watch our dust; Together we can make this happen and prove it's time homeless folks got a decent break. And some respect...

Appleseed Humanity.
Giving Homeless Children a Chance.
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