Houseless Movement Charity

Kenny convinced me we needed this karaoke machine for our Christmas party. And he was right. It was awesome. He karaoke every chance he gets.

You are right. The emergency shelter is open. And it’s awesome we have it. It is open from 7pm to 8 am at 111 East Voris.

Yet there are people living in these tents instead.

Why?

Are they stupid? Are they lazy? Would they rather freeze to death so they could use drugs?

Those are possible reasons.

It’s also possible they are afraid to use the bus. They are afraid of a place they’ve never been. They are afraid they won’t be able to handle the other people. They are afraid of police (even if they don’t have a warrant).

Maybe they don’t want to trek miles to a place where they won’t be able to sleep in a new environment and will just lay awake all night and then have to come right back to this tent in the morning.

Maybe it feels safer to suffer in the cold you’ve known for years than to try something you’ve never done before.

Whatever it is, one thing is true: we as a society have a very low tolerance for anyone who doesn’t do exactly what they are “supposed” to do.

So these people are seen as “service resistant” and consequently ignored at best and swept away at worst.

There is a pretty serious snowstorm going on outside. It is ahead of a week of extremely cold on its way.

This guy is catching a quick nap and recharging his phone before he is sent back outside because it’s illegal to let someone sleep in any building that is not approved for sleeping. It’s illegal to let him sleep in that chair. I’ve had the head of fire inspections tell me that exact thing.

We have one last piece of the puzzle to get our homeless mobile outreach/community center up and running. We need this generator.
Can you help us?
https://donorbox.org/our-new-homeless-outreach-trailer

We paid Josh and Hurricane to add this awesome frame to our new trailer.

Thanks to you, we were able to afford this used trailer. (A tool rental place was having a Fall sale of items they didn’t need anymore.)

And also thanks to you, we were able to pay Josh and Hurricane to build out this wooden frame.

We’ll use this to haul trash we collect around town and scrap as another form of income for people in the Houseless community.

Look at these amazing bikes we are making in our new factory. They are all going into the community for people to use for free.

Have you seen the bikes that we are building in our new factory?

This is Randy on the left and Bobby on the right. Bobby has been hired by us to repair these bicycles that were donated. We spray paint them neon green and then put them out into the community as community bicycles. Anyone can use them that wants to. 

Through a tremendous amount of determination and resilience of many people, we are thrilled to announce the opening of the Bad Dog Factory in Akron Ohio. It is a makerspace dedicated to the houseless community.
Learn more here:

Bad Dog Factory Kick-off | HOUSELESS MOVEMENT CHARITY (Powered by Donorbox) BAD DOG FACTORY IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!Donate $35 or more in the next two weeks and get a free Bad Dog Factory t-shirt made by the Bad Dog Factory crew. (offer ends Tuesday, September 10, 2024).With a tremendous amount of help and resilience, I am thr...

My main Facebook profile has been permanently banned because I was showing the results of testing illicit substances in the homeless community. The results were tragically bad. I thought it might be good for the community to know this reality. Apparently I was wrong. We should not discuss the horrors of modern America. There is nothing to see here. Everything is fine.

This account was also banned for a time. I can’t be sure how long it will last.

If you are interested in hearing about my work in the homeless community please subscribe to my Substack. That’s where I’ll be discussing these issues.

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I love you and am so thankful for you.

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