These photos leave me feeling deep despair and profound sadness, and they make me ashamed to be a citizen and voter in America of 2024.
I was born in the Atlanta Georgia area and lived in Georgia until 1982. Born in 1947, there was no homelessness like this anywhere in Georgia up to the time I left. Everyone was housed. Perhaps they lived in 'the projects', ghettos in the cities. Or possibly people were housed in the huge warehouses of 'mental hospitals' such as the one in Milledgeville, GA, which, at one time had a patient population in the 10s of thousands and a total staff of maybe 4 or 5 thousand. Locked inside, but enough freedom to escape anytime the resident patients wanted to leave and go somewhere else.
There were very modest houses with outhouses that housed some folks, often blacks, who were desperately poor.
My mother recalled back in 1929 when the house that she and her 8 brothers and sisters lived in was foreclosed on and auctioned off, and with the auctioneer saying "sold," they became 'homeless' overnight - moving into a relative's very modest outbuilding of only two rooms fighting to survive in the Great Depression where some folks went hungry, but they always had biscuits and fat back with garden vegetables to eat and share freely with others.
But even back then, nobody went without a roof over their head - albeit a very modest roof to be sure.
I believe that in a world where there are filthy rich billionaires and people who have amounts of money that are not only obscenely large, but are so immense that it is practically impossible to even conceive of the amount of money these people have, that it is immoral, unethical, and wrong in every conceivable way that something can be wrong for there to be people without roofs over their heads. Period.
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