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Package opportunities to break the cycle

In my columns published in Street Roots, I have tried to point out the problems that homeless people have in trying to get up. In the first column, titled “Where can I? how can I?,” I show a person who is trying to get a new start in a new town and the pr ...

15 May 2015 - Johnny Williams
Opportunity, support keys to end homelessness

Street Roots vendor Johnny Williams reflects on obstacles, opportunity and support Homelessness is a problem that cannot be fixed just by throwing money at it. You can throw money at a fire all day long, and it will never put out the fire. Only helping pe ...

3 Apr 2015 - Johnny Williams
Open Wapato Jail to homeless on tenants’ own dime

COMMENTARY Society wants homeless people to get up, and they would prefer that they do it on their own. Yet, homeless people are spending so much time in line that they have no time to get their high school equivalency diploma (GED) or job training. It’s ...

4 Mar 2015 - Johnny Williams
What I would do to help the homeless, speaking from experience

A world of Catch-22s. Let’s say, as a homeless person, I decide that I want to change my life. I want to find a job, but I need to wash my clothes, shave and shower. There is a place that I can do all that. I go down to that place. I get there and they te ...

8 May 2014 - Johnny Williams
Vendor Profile: Finding inspiration among new friends

By Ann-Derrick Gaillot, Contributing Writer It is not hard to find Johnny Williams and Paula Ramirez at their spot across the street from City Hall. Johnny joyfully calls out greetings and jokes to passersby beside his partner Paula. We sit inside the Sta ...

29 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff