[jelliclesfarm]

True story: in one of my neighborhood boards, a young woman claimed to be homeless. She and her 8 year old are living with her grandmother in a tony part of town. The city counts her as homeless because she doesn’t have utilities in her name and is living with a relative.

This is bizarre to me. I grew up with three generations under one roof. We were a family and none of us were considered ‘homeless’.

The definition has becoming so broad to include so many different kinds of people that the cynic in me feels like the homeless activists and non profits and govt bloat benefits from inflating the numbers somehow with their ‘census’ taking..