I will not walk, bus, drive, taxi, Lyft, Uber or bicycle by a homeless or housing-challenged person either on the street, the avenues, in tented villages or in the parks and look and act as though:
You are invisible, homeless, smelly or unkempt.
I don’t see you.
I don’t know you.
I don’t speak with people like you.
I will not remember you.
I will not go out of my way to give you either food, clothes, information, a dollar or a fare card, much less an ounce of sense recognizing the time of any sun- or a moon-lighted day or anybody’s circadian clock.
No, I am not going to do that!
Yes, I am going to recognize, speak, appreciate and make a special effort to acknowledge that human is excluded. They are born in this city and they do exist. This New Year’s Resolution is as old as human existence: Housing is a human right! No more human displacement. Housing now!
Cheers, my friends.
