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Window Manifesto

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 14, 2021October 30, 2021

And The Rain Came Down. Winter Unhoused

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 14, 2021September 15, 2021

Constant Cravings and The Nameless One

San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 11, 2021September 13, 2021

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 11, 2021September 13, 2021

Looking Back In Anger At Homelessness

In the middle of the storm it is hard to see the wood for the trees, the wind from the rain: the good from the bad. I lived in that storm for most of my adult life, and it is only in the last week that I have been inside looking out at the storm […]

The Moving Diaries

San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsAugust 26, 2021

Moving on: Apartment Life

San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsAugust 25, 2021August 25, 2021

The cruelty of Teasing Families With Potential Housing

San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsAugust 22, 2021

From my Window: The True Re-use Recycle Environmentalists.

San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsAugust 21, 2021August 21, 2021

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJuly 25, 2021July 25, 2021

Shelter-Life

I often wonder what people think about the families who dwell in the shelter, from the outside looking in. I wonder what they think as they look into the parking lot seeing me, white and middle aged with Keef or Kurt or Patti emblazoned across my chest, smoking a joint with a young man who […]