https://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/61806736

They can pay whatever they want, it is the cost of business. However, they will have people like me that would rather donate to someone more in need than stqnding in the shop for an hour and leaving feeling robbed. So, while they may have 20 copies of Dark Knight or HP, I doubt they have any copies of The Secret of Nimh, Fawlty Towers, or The Reduced Shakespeare Company, and now my local library has them.

Homeless people need something different than a minimum wage job and free pizza . A lot of folks are homeless because they cannot work, and programs that require you to work before getting you situated back into society are rough even for folks who can work but have pressing NEEDS.

I cannot stress enough how harmful it is for housed and able bodied people to make assumptions on what is needed by vulnerable populations.

Just because you like pizza doesn't mean it would solve the problems this excellent person is seeking to solve.

Did you find someone to help? If not DM me.

I know how hard this.

I will. Thank you

She has a cancer that has abscessed

Damn where the hell are people going that the bus adds 2 hours 😭, and meh you can get a ton of work done on the bus that you can't while driving. I like reading tho. And not having to drive, so if it did take 2 hours more I'd still like it better

Housing is step 1. It’s not the end of the solution, but it is the necessary beginning.

There are lots of initiatives in Pittsburgh that work to combat this problem, more than most cities. We just began sending out social workers to mental health calls, and we do a lot of innovative things.

Pittsburgh is the first city to create EMS, street medicine, AND trauma-centered neighborhood resilience. We have lots of people doing groundbreaking work that is being replicated all over the country and world. You are pretty clueless about it all, obviously.

Maybe just wipe her down with those wipes made for cats??? It’ll probably make her smell tolerable enough to take in a uber

She has cancer that's ruptured. The best way I can describe it is she smells rotten

I take my cats to the vet in a carrier in an Uber or Lyft all the time with no problem. Never had a driver object. I know you said she smells bad, but how bad?

I work until 5pm tomorrow, but might be able to get out at 430. I work in the Mexican War Streets area, but am willing to help. Keep me posted

To an extent, unless you're gonna factor in the bus ride and transfer times, since time is money gotta convert that, If taking the bus adds 2-3 hours extra in a commute I would say no, especially when you gotta leave even earlier to even catch it.

Can't ofer anything but my condolences. I'm so sorry.

Almost certain they are

It would still be cheaper to take the bus

Hay, I say nay to bad jokes

Or register it in a state that do that bs

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Hush child

Yes, but the overwhelming majority of homeless shelters are just that.....shelters. they do nothing else. A comprehensive solution is needed, like you stated, but it isn't happening.

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Why don’t you stick to running your mouth about what’s going on in Albuquerque and leave Pittsburgh out of it, jagoff

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I recommend looking in Facebook groups! That’s where I found my current and next apartment and signed leases.