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Urban Street Symbols: Hidden Messages in the Metropolis

May 3, 2017 By Orlando Barahona

Emily Read and Chen Hsu Homeless City Guide 2007 — Emily Read and Chen Hsu, Homeless City Guide, 2007 – Re-published by permission of http://thepavement.org.uk

Who are the homeless of San Diego? Yearly reports from several agencies reveal tragic glimpses of the humans everyone labels home-less. Homelessness has existed since the beginning of History, so I used to be just as jaded and callous as other people who always assumed the lot would always consist of the stereotypes: criminal offenders, the mentally ill, the infirm, addicts and other varieties of outcasts. Continue Reading Urban Street Symbols: Hidden Messages in the Metropolis

An Inside View of Homelessness in San Diego

June 11, 2016 By Orlando Barahona

I’m Orlando Barahona and this is the first account of my experiences as a homeless man in San Diego. One aim in writing this editorial is to raise a sharp awareness of a homelessness crisis I have experienced that cannot be ignored any longer: men, women and entire families are on the streets or in sub-par dwellings; the other is to dispel the myth that anyone who enters adverse situations cannot recover.Continue Reading An Inside View of Homelessness in San Diego

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