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...