The Unhoused

A Partisan Rorschach Test

A local story highlights the different realities experienced by both sides of the political divide. The unhoused are trapped in the truth.

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

- Abraham Lincoln

The burned-out hull of a camper parked along the main street that leads to my house was jarring. The damage done to the trailer was nearly complete which left me immediately wondering about the fate of its owner. Was this camper one of the many throughout the city that has become the final refuge of our fellow…