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By: Avalon

Avalon — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:10:32 +0000

Relax, everyone. No one takes Nestor seriously in this town, anyway. It’s a wonder that any publication would give him the opportunity to write anything but classified ads. He’s just proving, once again, that he’s no journalist and that his character flaw is so large it can be seen from outer space.

By: zero

zero — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:09:19 +0000

This is truly shameful, and you should be embarrassed to admit that you wrote this. Please move yourself and your prissy wife back to the sanitized burbs where you belong. Open your eyes. This is a city, and to truly be a part of the city means you face the daily reality that success and despair will always be bedfellows. I hate to think what would happen if someday you lost everything- something tells me the Mrs. wouldn’t hang around too long.
If this represents what b is all about, well, then no thank you.

By: OM

OM — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:10:05 +0000

Hey, Mr. Aparicio, you and Mrs. Aparicio having a good time calling the less-fortunate names? Putting quotation marks around the word “Homeless” to make a point is… well.. it’s kind of like me referring to you as a “journalist” or a “human being.”

And that second comment, “What I have to ask, is don’t any of these people have family?” — What, can’t you ask them? They can talk, you know. Enjoy your pizza.

By: Carol Ott

Carol Ott — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:12:05 +0000

I was all ready to leave a comment here, but “gofreescout” was far more polite than I would have been.

Frankly, anyone who would call a little girl names that aren’t fit for print doesn’t deserve my readership, or the readership of any decent thoughtful person. Why this paper even exists is beyond me. Provocative? Not even. Shameful is the word that comes to mind.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:53:20 +0000

The experience of homelessness is indeed troubling, and the fact that over thirty thousand of our fellow Baltimoreans find themselves without a secure place to stay at some point during the year is troubling for all of us. Unfortunately, this discussion is only focusing on the symptoms — not the real illness.

What’s troubling is that Baltimore City’s housing trust fund is used to demolish low-income housing rather than build it. What’s troubling is that over the past 15 years, Baltimore City has destroyed 43% of its public housing units. What’s troubling is that the federal HUD budget (which provides housing subsidies for our lowest income neighbors) has been cut by nearly two-thirds in the past three decade while at the same time expeditures on the mortgage interest tax deduction (which provides housing subsidies for middle and upper income households) have increase four fold.

What’s troubling is that you need over two full time minimum wage jobs to be able to afford an efficiency unit in the City. What’s troubling is that federal disability assistance (SSI) is $637 a month — far less than is needed to afford a room in many neighborshoods in the City. What’s troubling is that Maryland’s temporary disability assistance (which people receive while they await federal benefits) is a meager $185/mo. That’s why people with disabilities are panhandling!

What’s troubling is that 47 million Americans lack health insurance — and twice that number are un- or gravely under-insured.

Homelessness will persist until affordable housing, livable incomes and universal health care exist. Mr. Aparicio, you asked whether something can be done about this. The answer is yes, but it requires looking past the symptoms to the real illness.

Oh, and because I feel the need to add a non sequitor. Yeah, other than Faidley’s, there is not really good crabcake downtown. There’s also no good Polish sausage. Why can’t I get a good Chicago-style Polish around here?!