If you have been arrested for some drug-related offense, you too will not be eligible for subsidized housing. Look at jobs and wages in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Our response to this crisis is abominable. We continue to remove the necessary chairs. We lock people up and add fuel to the fire.
People get out of jail fully enraged and then return to poor neighborhoods with no skills, no hope.
At our soup kitchen, more and more children are coming without an accompanying adult. When we began Viva House 30 years ago, we only saw single men over the age of 50. We are going in exactly the wrong direction. It is time to end the game of musical chairs. We can't eliminate poverty by eliminating the poor.