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Hi my name is the Southwest Youth Collaborative and I've been around since '92 offering basic youth services and building community power. I like being active in my community, creative, and meaningfully educated. I fight for basic human rights and am against oppression of all kinds at all levels. I am HIP HOP. I also like to think of myself as an incubator of all sorts of positive, ill.. stuff. In partnership with organizations and individuals, our programs work to build self-esteem, personal and social growth, cooperation, leadership, cross-cultural understanding, and community awareness. Our organizing efforts work to build youth and community involvement in decision-making processes affecting children, youth, and families. WWW.SWYC.ORG

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darlene: Do you have any solutions for homelessness? Not looking for a total cure (that might be unrealistic) just something that may have been overlooked...What would you do personally to help?

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darlene: (11/21 10:02) Do you think homeless people are responsible for their own predicament? Why or why not?

mt: As with all of us, I imagine there is a measure of personal responsibility, a measure of fate -- and a pinch of chance thrown in there.

sarah.e.lu: There are factors beyond an individual person's control that can add up and put them in a situation where they are homeless. A young person my choose to leave their home because they are being abused--they have agency in choosing to leave a crappy situation, but they didn't ask for the crappy situation, you know? I think it's complicated.

sarah.e.lu: It's a bad idea to entirely blame a homeless person for being homelessness--but people do that to justify refusing to help homeless people. Lame.

darlene: (11/21 11:08) Do you have any solutions for homelessness? Not looking for a total cure (that might be unrealistic) just something that may have been overlooked...What would you do personally to help?

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