After 10 years of living on the streets in Oakland, California, Greg Dunston and Marie McKenzie have a new normal thanks to a generous Bay Area homeowner who wanted to improve their lives and share the message that homelessness is not 'contagious.'
After 10 years of living on the streets in Oakland, California, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie have a new normal thanks to a generous Bay Area homeowner who wanted to improve their lives and share the message that homelessness is not"contagious."
Another called Piedmont Police and Fire Dispatch, saying,"I just wanted to notify you that this woman is sitting at Lexford and Hampton ... She's smoking a cigarette -- could be drugs."The city by the bay is the wealthiest in the nation with more billionaires per capita than any other city in the country, according to the Wealth-X Billionaire Census 2019.
"They were still engaged with meeting people and they still had love for each other through it all that bond," he explained of what he called a"vibrancy of life" when he first wrote about the pair for the paper. "His email was very matter of fact," Chief Bowers said."[Terry] let me know he was opening his home to some folks."
"Our natural tendency is to move away from that kind of pain," he said."That's why we avert our eyes. That's why they just become part of the background, part of of the wallpaper and it's easier to just move past it.""In fact, many of us choose not to see it. We've become numb to this despair and the plight of others who are obviously suffering," the SF Chronicle reporter explained.
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