Deep freeze puts thousands of homeless people in jeopardy

[turbinetree]

As an arctic blast sends temperatures plunging across the country this week, advocates for the homeless are warning the frigid conditions could be deadly for the estimated half a million people who live on the streets.

Homeless shelters in cities across the Northeast and Midwest are reaching capacity, according to local news reports, and struggling to accommodate the increased demand as temperatures dip far below freezing.

“It’s life and death out there,” Stephen Welch, the director of development for a nonprofit organization that serves the homeless community in Boston, told a local CBS affiliate on Thursday. “I talked to a couple of guys who thought they were going to die today. They could barely move.”

In Cincinnati, a 55-year-old homeless man named Ken Martin was found dead at a bus stop this week. Advocates from nonprofit group Maslow’s Army, which has long pushed for a 24-hour shelter for homeless people to seek refuge, blamed Martin’s death on the city’s shortage of resources to assist homeless people.

https://thinkprogress.org/cold-snap-homeless-shelter-4bf398c416f1/


John Kaisch, calling John Kaisch are you there John Kaisch and the republican controlled state---------------------


nope no one is at home.........................and this asshole wants to be president

[Sophia4]

1. Homelessness is a symptom of the general heartlessness in America.

We can do better than this.

Over 35,000 homeless on the streets of Los Angeles County per night.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-homeless-rise-explainer-20170531-htmlstory.html

[smirkymonkey]

2. This is so wrong. There is no reason, in a country as wealthy as ours, why homeless people

should not have access to decent shelter, preferable always but definitely in extreme weather conditions such as what we are going through right now in this country. It is cruel to leave these people on the streets to die in such brutal weather.

[Achilleaze]

3. Send the hungry & homeless to republican shangri la: Mar a Lago

I am sure the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, and his billionaire republican & russian cronies, will be happy to share a crust of bread and a pallet on the floor.

republican elites will always find room at the table for a hungry homeless American at Mar a Lago, right?

[Achilleaze]

4. .

[MineralMan]

5. It's scary cold out there in some places.

-13 degrees here in St. Paul, MN this morning. But, I have a new furnace, bought just last winter, and I just put a new air filter in it this morning. In Minnesota, there are many, many people who are homeless, and many others who don't have reliable heat in their homes. Landlords hate replacing furnaces. It costs many months rent to put in a new one, so they stall and whine about dead furnaces.

We have many organizations in our area that house the homeless. But, there are homeless people refuse housing. Our police and others try to convince those to go where it is warm and safe, but sometimes people simply refuse. We hear about them in the morning paper in the depths of winter.

It's cold. If you're warm, be thankful. If you have excess warm clothing, take it to a local shelter and give it to them. They'll find someone who desperately needs it.

[Achilleaze]

6. I've slept out on winter nights below 10F

with a tent, a good down sleeping bag, longjohns, and a candle lantern. Let me tell you, even with that gear it makes for a long, cold night.

Our fellow Americans who are homeless and do not have that kind of gear suffer far, far more through the night and the day.

[turbinetree]

7. I can still remember when we put hay bales around our cars

plug the heater core and the radiator core and the oil , and then put a light bulb on, just to generate some heat on top of the engine block, because the with the wind shield in the Northern Tier of the State of Minnesota, the weather got down to -45 International Falls, then going out every 4 hours to see if the car would start, and hope the battery wasn't frozen

The average temperature on Mars is -9 degrees .............................

What does this tell us, go to Mars......................

[Kirk Lover]

8. I always always always feel bad and think about the homeless pets too extra during these cold snaps.

[turbinetree]

9. Good point, sleeping inside the sleeping bag......................

[Achilleaze]

10. Shame on greedy, grabby, groady republican grifters

and their systematic & legislative pissing on America's poor people so they can give more more more money to the already rich. Sick.