{"id":2557,"date":"2021-11-06T02:10:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T02:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2021-12-03T04:05:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T04:05:18","slug":"retro-campaign-homelessness-in-our-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2557","title":{"rendered":"Retro campaign; homelessness in our cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1950 Chevrolet …photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While traveling across Ohio recently, I stopped at the Red Tomato (That’s right. Dan Quayle couldn’t spell tomato right (Or was that potato?), but I can — thanks to spell check.) in Mt. Eaton<\/strong>. The gentleman in the blue shirt (standing) owned this 1950 Chevrolet. Mint! After admiring it a bit, I talked to him about my candidacy and passed on a campaign card. I talk, in our campaign, about it being somewhat retro. That is, we would like to see the country, in a number of aspects, go back to the 1950s, when things were slower, more wholesome, and so on.<\/a> I also wrote a column about homelessness recently. A USA Today<\/em><\/strong> article noted that a recent poll indicated a whopping 45% of Los Angeles residents believe homelessness is the biggest problem facing the city. Homeless tent encampments, for instance, now seem virtually everywhere there — including even at some city parking lots. “We all agree that no one wants people living in a parking lot,” said Eric Tars, legal director for the National Homelessness Law Center<\/strong>. “But the way to end the homeless encampments is to make them unnecessary, not illegal.” Our family intentionally moved to a hardscrabble part of Cleveland, Ohio for five years doing outreach to the poor and researching the systemic causes of metropolitan poverty and homelessness. For a look at some of what we found, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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