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davis_square2011-09-15 04:16 pm
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Urgent Request for Shelter
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Bri and AJ were evicted from where they sleep today and have nowhere to go. Here is Bri's post about it on wordpress: http://bribroken.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/evicted/#more-441.
They desperately need a place to stay. They are currently outside of the Davis Square station. They have been sleeping in the area for about 6 weeks and can be seen every day selling jewelry outside of the Holland St. exit. They are lovely people and just really need a place to sleep where they'll be safe from the weather and from being robbed/attacked. Also a place where they can bring their suitcases as they don't have anywhere to leave their bags. Anyone who wants to contact them can email them at xjettx at gmail dot com or comment at the wordpress blog or go visit them. They will most likely be at the Holland St. exit of the Davis Square station until 10:00 or 11:00pm unless they are offered a place to spend the night earlier than that. They have access to a laptop, but the power is running low so they'll be checking email sporadically through the night. The best way to contact them is to go to the train station, but they will be able to read email.
Here again is Bri's post: http://bribroken.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/evicted/#more-441
Thank you. If this is inappropriate, please let me know and I will take the post down or modify it to make it acceptable to the community.
b0st0n.))Bri and AJ were evicted from where they sleep today and have nowhere to go. Here is Bri's post about it on wordpress: http://bribroken.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/evicted/#more-441.
They desperately need a place to stay. They are currently outside of the Davis Square station. They have been sleeping in the area for about 6 weeks and can be seen every day selling jewelry outside of the Holland St. exit. They are lovely people and just really need a place to sleep where they'll be safe from the weather and from being robbed/attacked. Also a place where they can bring their suitcases as they don't have anywhere to leave their bags. Anyone who wants to contact them can email them at xjettx at gmail dot com or comment at the wordpress blog or go visit them. They will most likely be at the Holland St. exit of the Davis Square station until 10:00 or 11:00pm unless they are offered a place to spend the night earlier than that. They have access to a laptop, but the power is running low so they'll be checking email sporadically through the night. The best way to contact them is to go to the train station, but they will be able to read email.
Here again is Bri's post: http://bribroken.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/evicted/#more-441
Thank you. If this is inappropriate, please let me know and I will take the post down or modify it to make it acceptable to the community.
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Without going into it too much in this one comment box, the long and short of it is they ultimately don't want to get back on their feet. Any suggestions or tips for them to help themselves have been turned down in the past and will be turned down again. They keep saying they want to improve their situation, but in almost two years they've not bothered to look into SHC's services (which have been excellent for me when I needed them from 2008-09, and are queer-friendly), any other shelters, SSDI or EAEDC, etc. They claim they have, but then AJ claims transphobia when government agencies like social security have to use his legal name.
It's really frustrating for me to have been somewhat close to where they are, busted my ass to get out of it even when I didn't think I could, only to see them not budging simply because they don't want to.
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It's good you were able to pull yourself out of what you believe was a similar situation (of course, not knowing these folks means you can't be sure about that), and it's sad that your friends may have been burned by these folks somehow. Not sure discouraging people from helping these homeless kids will help make up for the bad experiences your friends had, though. If you don't believe assisting them will be helpful overall, perhaps you should come up with some alternate suggestions for folks who want to help those in need in the Davis Square community?
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His first hand experiences coupled with what I already knew of this couple have, however, helped me to make an informed decision.
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Somerville Homeless Coalition
They wasted my time applying for things they knew I wasn't eligible for, apparently failed to send in my application for the thing I really was eligible for (and could very much have used), and treated me like an idiot. I don't think any of that was intentional, just kind of typical for a place run by people who are either burnt out or just not that interested combined with policies that pretty much just promote the status quo (rather than serious reform).
And the shelters are shit, and if you ever went into them (other than the awesome one at Harvard that only runs in the summer), you know that they tend to make people even sicker.
You, and I, are clearly very lucky to have found some other way to get our needs met. Not everyone is that lucky. You might have been lucky to have the energy to do the work you did, and I was lucky to have found some people who had extra space in their home and benefited from having me live with them. And I hope that this couple are lucky to, in whatever way possible.
Greed and stupid laws make homelessness, and we, as the public are capable of changing that, if we want...
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That's usually a good place to stop.
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That is unconscionable and disgusting.
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