{"id":986,"date":"2014-03-24T23:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T23:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=986"},"modified":"2017-08-01T18:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:52:34","slug":"solving-homelessness-or-the-homeless-blemish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Solving Homelessness or the Homeless Blemish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a \u201cdash movement taking place in Santa Cruz, California. According to the <i>Santa Cruz Sentinel <\/i>article, \u201c&#8217;<a title=\"'Dash deployed for solving Santa Cruz County Homelessness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/santacruz\/ci_25404677\/dash-deployed-solving-santa-cruz-county-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\">Dash\u2019 deployed for solving Santa Cruz Country Homelessness<\/a>\u201d, \u00a0the multi-agency cooperative 180\/180 Initiative has a goal of offering \u201c180 people a 180 degree life change\u201d by a deadline of July 1st. A secondary goal was also created to place 25 of the city\u2019s most visible homeless people, along with a group of 12 from Watsonville, on a course towards permanent supportive housing within 100 days by May 7<sup>th<\/sup>. \u00a0The 100-day dash plan is a specialized tool that gives partnering agencies and officials who wouldn\u2019t usually get involved a finite timeline and achievable goal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although this project sounds promising, with 8 people currently being helped and two already housed in Watsonville, there seems to be the same lingering goal to get the chronically homeless away from the downtown commercial areas where they reside. Homeless Services Center Executive Director Monica Martinez is even quoted in the article saying \u201cEverybody has their reason why (they want to get the homeless off the streets), but we all agree we want it to happen.\u201d This reminds me of Wasserman and Clair\u2019s book \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness<\/span>, and how their participants discussed how the programs shouldn\u2019t be pushed upon them and that they should be choices. My interpretation of this article seems as if this plan isn\u2019t entirely for the homeless\u2019 best interest, but to remove them from living in commercial areas where their presence isn\u2019t wanted, which was an issue also raised in the book. These chronically homeless people they are \u201chelping\u201d are not being seen as people, but as a blemish on the downtowns of Santa Cruz and Watsonville. As much as this would like help out the homeless community, I fear that it is not enough to solve the chronic problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a \u201cdash movement taking place in Santa Cruz, California. According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel article, \u201c&#8217;Dash\u2019 deployed for solving Santa Cruz Country Homelessness\u201d, \u00a0the multi-agency cooperative 180\/180 Initiative has a goal of offering \u201c180 people a 180 degree life change\u201d by a deadline of July 1st. A secondary goal was also created &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solving Homelessness or the Homeless Blemish?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,30,5,24,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelessness","category-how-we-should-treat-each-other","category-news-link","category-reflections-on-our-reading","category-solutions-homeless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-fU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}