#Housing

I work in homeless services. I do not like the term "unhoused." It centers 'house' rather than 'home' while not being meaningfully more inclusive than "homeless."The better fight to pick
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So here it is finally yaaay. Thread explaining my inactivity lately. So yesterday my parents dropped on me that we aren't renewing our lease here, and they're going to be
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I am beginning to get optimistic. Cases appear to be peaking in NY. Almost the entire country is in shutdown. Hydroxychloriquine and antibiotics appear to help. There is increasing evidence
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Can’t stop thinking about the history of the ownership of Courbet’s The Origin of the World. (A thread.) Commissioned by Ottoman diplomat Halil Şerif Pasha, most of the paintings owners
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I gotta tell you. Lockdowns are a goldmine for proving Republican talking points. I could be tempted to move right on the political scale. According to mostly liberal, academic college
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1/Today a dear friend who I consider like family was evicted from the shelter hotel she has been living in since June. There are so many hard traumatizing events that
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Man I'm so angry. I know of a few trans shelters being funded. I'm going to reshare them. If you know any notable trans shelters being built of funded across
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Taking a reading break so let's talk privilege! Privilege can intersect. Race, religion, wealth, sexual orientation, all of it. Just because you don't have privilege in one area doesn't mean
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a Palestinian car protest went by my house saying fuck the jews a friendly reminder that this Israeli-American does not like Hamas and does not like Israeli policy. I'm
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Thread:A bloody great article in the Guardian " Out of the second world war came the umbrella principle: if money was no object when it came to killing people, it
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1/The Great Recession of 2008Sit back. Get comfy.In this thread, I'll highlight the main causes that led to the downfall of global economies in '08.You'll know what exactly went wrong.
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Don't think the Fed creates and injects currency into the money supply? Read this then ask yourself why there isn't a design that injects currency for civil benefit and not
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East Boston is ground zero for the displacement and affordability crisis. Today, @bostonplans will vote on a Suffolk Downs PDA to create 10k units of new housing, almost none of
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Maybe I'm not thinking big enough I'm sitting here tonight, looking at different business structuring options for managing all my different activities (writing, consulting, coaching, art, maybe desert AirBnB) and
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I’m the last person you should ask what #JusticeForFloyd looks like, but if you want to hang out together at the edge of my learning ... /1 Derek Chauvin is
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We’re facing a crisis like nothing since the Great Depression. Half-measures won’t protect us.Finally, we’re seeing a stimulus plan in the House that speaks to the unprecedented health care and
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