>You aren't going to end up on the sidewalk immediately if you lose your
>job.
That's exactly where you end up as soon as you walk out the door. It's also called pounding the pavement.
>Most people have spouses to cushion sudden job loss.
Most people are treading water even with two incomes. And maybe most people have spouses in Kansas, but not everywhere.
>Welfare is more difficult these days.
No shit.
> Many people have credit cards which they can use to cover expenses.
And get even further in debt at between 10 and 20 percent? Just the kind of advice people want to hear.
>But people aren't going to take any risks if they think they will
>become immediately homeless.
Why the hell would they?
>The Ruth Gilmore book especially will lead
> > to much more reference material and to info on grassroots
> > groups. And if you google any of these three names there's a lot of
> > their work and interviews online:
>
>I'm well aware that there are books and articles.
>
>I should have expanded on my point and asked how we are going to put
>this information and solutions into the public eye. Books are rather
>passive instruments. They aren't read by many people. What counts is how
>you take the stuff in books and make it part of a public agenda of
>social change.
>
>Chuck
Take a look at the Gilmore book for some stuff on people who have been making this part of the public agenda for a while now, unless you were well aware of that already.