The Homeless Continue to Be Kicked

Last year poverty rate in America reached 13.5%. According to the Census Bureau that rate is expected to climb through this year and the next. From that poverty rate is the homeless rate which certainly is growing in proportion.

The rate of uninsured is also still rising in this jobless recovery. The RI jobless rate is expected to climb to 13.5% by economists on September 9^th and that does not include the possible 1000 layoff of state workers.

Add the rate of the rising uninsured the environment is ripe for an increase of homeless and we have a state that does not seem to be prepared for or preparing for these people.

In the City of Providence and East Providence, the homeless are still being evicted and jockeyed about from site to site, from shelter out again to more sites. The Wampanoag Nation has accommodated some onto their land while the people of Hope City but it turns out that the land the Wampanoag had allowed them to use is part of a Superfund site and the town of Cumberland also disputes the Wampanoag's right of ownership.

Hope City homeless were allowed to move to Cumberland for only 6 days to find temporary or regular housing. Six days. These leaves the Hope City group out in left field...again. The Camp Runamuck homeless who are in East Providence were ordered to move by September 8^th.

No one seems to be helping these working homeless people except the non-profits who are under a lot of stress themselves and are not able to help them all.

That cue word I had written about "but." But we will obey the law", "but we will enforce the rules", and the "buts" go on and those poor people keep getting shuffled by officials hiding behind rules and laws.

Put the same energy into securing a roof over their heads before the winter sets in at least.

As written in previous articles they are obviously expendable to the state and City of Providence, East Providence, and Cumberland. Court order after court order they are ordered them about, eviction notices, demands from the police and others more concerned about their property values than helping their fellow citizens.

All these supposedly intelligent people can't or won't find a place for them to live. If they were single mothers there would not be a problem. They need a place to live as anyone else in this supposedly powerful country.