A rare NY Times story about the evolution of a care house and eventual mobile clinic for rough sleepers in Boston founded in the 1980s by feminist nurses in response to the way street people were treated by a paternalistic medical system. Told through the eyes of the clinic’s first doctor, he learned to listen, first to the nurses who saw street people as fellow humans, … [Read more...] about ‘You Have to Learn to Listen’: How a Doctor Cares for Boston’s Homeless
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Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people
Editor's note: This article appeared first in the October 2017 issue of the New Statesmen. Some people object to the term "homeless" for a variety of reasons, among them being that it falsely categorizes people into types. As a result, even some who claim to want to help those without a roof over their heads tend to look down on them or do not realize that homelessness is a … [Read more...] about Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people