Over the years, working with the homeless issues has been a struggle, and our group had been giving houses away in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. We used to have the Emergency Transitional Shelter, and we saw a need to change. So therefore, we obtained buildings donated to our group, and gave them away to the poor, no money involved, no liens on the property, and still there were problems, but oh well.
We then wanted to obtain a building, build a greenhouse on the roof, and put solar on the building, and get individuals in there to run it, but w still had the other houses, going. Over the years, we changed our forum, and fed the homeless in front of city hall for seven years, like FOOD NOT BOMBS, and in the year 2000, the cops tried to stop us, and we were in the news for awhile. Everyone supported us, and there is still feeding going on in front of city hall, but the times have changed, and we have the NIMBY thing, also going on.
Now, what I do, is continue to work on building a truly green city, and now it’s getting to be a popular thing sort of, but the mind set is there, and not, because they have been wiping out housing for the poor, and building condo’s and townhouses, in the 100,000s of dollars, no one can afford, and low-income housing. Subsequently, we’re up against a hard battle going up hill, and the funding is the thing for this. If anyone reading this can help in this endeavor let me know, we are working day and night, and going to make this happen.
This is going to create jobs, and give people hope, grow food on rooftop gardens in the city, and give info on green technology connected to Green Buildings, which I have done much research on, and now, it’s been eight years, and the city never gave us anything, but a bunch of words, no real emergency center, and this isn’t the only city, where we have 20,000 homeless people around. In the emergency shelter, there are 400 people every night, and FOOD NOT BOMBS, is feeding there, Sundays and Wednesdays. The food donations have been down as well, in the food pantries. As for the environment, we have very bad toxic waste issues, and poisons going around, and superfund sites, that need to be addressed.
