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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

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Culture, Feature Posts, homeless, Opinion, San Diego Tagged With: art, County, dirtbag, drugs, gangs, homeless, homelessness, HUD, methamphetamine, metropolis, MoMA, Octavio Paz, op ed, San Diego, semiotics, slang, sociology, statistics, trends, tweaker, Urban

An Inside View of Homelessness in San Diego

June 11, 2016 By Orlando Barahona

Photo: Derek Mindler/Flickr Creative Commons

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

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Feature Posts, homeless, Opinion, San Diego Tagged With: addiction, California, depression, homeless, homelessness, humanitarian crisis, mental health, nonprofit, op ed, opinion editorial, rock garden, San Diego, san diego housing crisis, shelter, substance abuse

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