ByMatt Harper
What if we had a roadmap that promised to help move people from the streets into housing? Would that inspire more of us to accompany and help unhoused people on that journey? Matt Harper interviews two longtime housing advocates to create such a roadmap for L.A.’s Skid Row. This article originally appeared in the August 2023 issue of The Catholic Agitator.
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Advocates the “small is beautiful”, personalist, house of hospitality approach to the homeless, rather that the big impersonal approach of the municipal lodging houses. (DDLW #180) The Catholic Worker, December 1974, 1-2.
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Discusses the principle of subsidiarity in the context of the counterproductive impact of city housing regulations on providing and obtaining housing, and announces the planned move of the CW House of Hospitality to rented apartments following the demolition of St. Joseph’s House on Christie St for a subway. Extols the importance of poverty and simple living. Recommends reading a publication of the Charles de Foucauld Association and quotes extensively from Fr. Rene Voillaume on the necessity of love as an aspect of Christian charity and missionary work. Addresses with alarm two contemporary perspectives on the family and their roots in industrialism. (DDLW #178) The Catholic Worker, Jan 1959, pp. 1, 2, 7
