Afterwards: The bills to maintain the cycle not repeating

Getting someone off the streets is one thing. Keeping them is another.

Last month a national endeavor from New York sent it's liason to speak to the General Membership of the Emergency Services & Homeless Coalition of Jacksonville, Inc (ESHC). A program designed to target certain demographics of people experiencing homelessness in smaller demographics relating potential risk for mortality.

Many programs promoting '10 year plans to end homelessness' actually cause pessimism amongst those who should be benefiting from such. Get in a home based on income, only having to face the costs of electricity...my own bill this last month jumped $100USD. No idea what this month's meter read will be based on the recent cold snap.

Getting a job is one matter. Maintaining a vehicle, payments, fuel, finding the cheapest car insurance possible...those along included a cost of over $600USD.

Job instability in the market caused a repossession within a year through no fault of my own trying to keep the budget going.

While pundits and armchair quarterbacks continue their rants and raves for such projects, the common factor remains: nobody wants to hear and implement what people having or currently experiencing homelessness have to say.

Because they're not doing what they're told needs to be done while adding staff, resources, and overhead that continue to justify paying a CEO six digit figures in some cases.