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I AM ATTRACTING GOOD THINGS INTO MY LIFE

missmentelle

“If it’s so hard to be homeless, how come they all have nicer phones than I do?”

If you work with the homeless, you hear this sentiment a lot. A lot.

Everyone who hates seeing their tax dollars go to the needy seems to think that this is the ultimate “gotcha”. How can that person possibly be homeless if they have a nice cell phone? How can homelessness really be so bad if you have an Android? How can social programs be underfunded when their clients have iPhones?

You want to know why the homeless have smartphones? There’s a couple of good reasons:

It’s leftover from a previous, more stable life. Homeless people aren’t video game characters, they don’t just spawn on street corners, fully formed. Most people do not experience long-term homelessness - the average homeless person is on the streets for less than a month. These are people who used to have jobs, apartments, cars, etc, until some sort of catastrophe put them on the street. You might lose your apartment or car, but most people own their cellphone outright, and can hang onto it when something bad happens.

It was given to them by a concerned family member or friend. Most homeless people do actually have non-homeless family members and friends who care about them. Their family might not be able to let that person live with them at the moment, due to addiction or mental health problems, but they still need a way to get in touch with that person and check in on them. Giving them a cellphone is the easiest way to do that.

It was picked up second-hand. People upgrade to the newest device all the time, and when they do that, many of them will sell their old phones. It’s easy to find cheap, secondhand cellphones on the internet or in pawn shops, and they’re a valuable tool worth having.

It was given out by a social services agency or charity. When you work with the homeless, getting in touch with them is one of the biggest challenges you face. You need to be able to get hold of them at a moment’s notice to let them know about appointments, openings in important programs, updates on applications, and all sorts of other crucial information. Instead of wasting hours and gas driving around looking for people the old-fashioned way, many social agencies just give out cheap phones to their clients, to make sure that they can always contact them.

It doesn’t have a plan. Many people who see a homeless person on a cell phone assume that that person is also paying for a costly phone and data plan. That’s usually not the case. Many homeless people use pay-as-you-go phone minutes that they can top up whenever they happen to have the money. Even without any minutes, phones are valuable - free public wifi can be used to make phone calls, look up information and stay in contact with friends.

It’s for emergencies. By federal law, even old, deactivated cell phones are able to place calls to 911. Sleeping rough is dangerous, and it never hurts to have a phone nearby, even if its only use is to call for help.

Cell phones are probably the single most useful tool any homeless person can have - you can use them to look for shelter openings, hunt for jobs, navigate transit, stay connected to friends, find resources and information, remember appointments, wake yourself up on time, call for help, and entertain yourself through long and boring days. They are an essential tool, not a luxury item, and it’s unfair to suggest that homeless people somehow aren’t suffering just because they have one. Instead of asking why that homeless person has a phone, ask yourself why they don’t have a safe place to sleep tonight.

adhbabey

This goes for poor or financially unstable people with nice things. They deserve nice things.

queerkittyy

I’ve been told im obviously faking being homeless because I have a phone and it’s not only infuriating but stupid. Thank you for this post

itsonlymike

I’m wishing new homes and apartments on everyone that sees this post!!! It’s already yours!! CLAIM IT 🧿🧿🧿

gaycism

This is.. the sweetest thing I’ve read

official-lucifers-child

that is so amazing ohhhh my gods, this guy absolutely is not the asshole that is just???? amazing platonic intimacy and affection?? which is good????

fiollaigean

“I kissed the homies, as is custom.” Blessed sentence

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

historicaltimes

“Crazy Dion” Diamond at one of his sit-ins as a teenager in Arlington, VA. June 10, 1960

via reddit

kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201

All of those people around him are demons

chemicallywrit

hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:

he did these sit-ins by himself. like idk about you, but i always thought of sit-ins as organized by groups, what kind of bravery does it take, man

he didn’t tell anyone about it, like he was no glory-seeker about this. his parents didn’t even know until reporters started calling them up like “hey, did you know your son is in jail?

when someone called the cops he’d skedaddle out the back door although he was sent to prison multiple times

the last time he got arrested was in Baton Rouge, and the cops were so sick of him that they told inmates they’d put in a good word for anyone who gave Diamond a hard time. (the inmates didn’t take the bait.)

he’s still alive!

hark, a hero of our times!

profeminist

sirrah1940

That is unbelievable courage!

bladesrunner

NARCOS | 2x05 The Enemies of My Enemy └ You want to catch Escobar, just like we do. But let’s not lie to ourselves. You haven’t been able to get close to him. The only play you had to get to him was using Carrillo. And we know how that ended, right?

bakwaaas

the idea of being married is so weird like what if I’m having a sad moment late at night and I wanna cry in bed and then there’s just some guy there??

#lmao it IS weird but you kinda get over the weirdness eventually KINDA

ougiebougie

the-tide-is-out

OH MY &UCKING GOD!

tumblehcendrum

Every time people’s ability to find the perfect recation pictures blows me out of the water. Which in this case would be very useful.

aubrey-plaza

ariminiria

I CAN’T BREATHE

prime-tiktoks

#honestly though #what do people use to show they are laughing hysterically???

elymaiis-deactivated20250925

“If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime,” but you have done neither. You have stood before us and eaten fish after fish, and chided us for our greed as you have done so. You have cast aside their offal and simultaneously chided us for our waste. You then told us that, coincidentally, you owned the river, and our parents should have gotten us the same if we wanted fish. You gave a man a fish to murder us if we step too close to the river, or speak too loud, or eat a fish from another river. You’ve copyrighted the fishing net. It costs us fish to leave.

micdotcom

Brown water could soon be coming to your city

No, these photos aren’t from Flint. Friday afternoon, the Guardian reported seeing documents regarding the state of water across the U.S.. According to the story, authorities in charge of testing the country’s water are “distorting” the results to minimize the trace amounts of lead found in them. As if on cue, these photos popped up on social media from a city millions call home.

rosezeee-deactivated20190929

Watch your water everyone.