Paula Lomazzi knows the challenges of living without housing firsthand: She’s overcome them.“We all want to end homelessness in a proper way, and it hasn’t been accomplished yet,” Lomazzi said. “It’s a constant struggle.”Lomazzi serves as the executive director of the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee.Since 1997, the nonprofit has put out the Homeward Street Journal, a newspaper meant to provide information, resources and news relevant to people who are homeless while also informing others about the challenges in finding and keeping affordable housing in the area.“We’re continuing the fight for social justice for unhoused people,” Lomazzi said.As concern about Sacramento’s homeless rises, a group of volunteers is seeking to educate the community members, regardless of their housing status, about the struggles faced by people who are without housing through the paper.“There’s nothing like paper. There’s nothing like something you can hold in your hands, and pass from hand to hand,” said Cathleen Williams, who volunteers her time writing for Homeward.The newspaper is also meant to provide a way for people in need to make money. The vendor program allows people who are without housing or formerly without housing to sell the paper for $1 and keep the profits.“It’s crucial that have people have ready access to each other. It’s a part of the networking process where they can write for it; they can read it. They can be uplifted and educated by it and participate in it,” Williams said. “All those things make it important.”For more information about the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee or the Homeward Street Journal, you can go here.
Paula Lomazzi knows the challenges of living without housing firsthand: She’s overcome them.
“We all want to end homelessness in a proper way, and it hasn’t been accomplished yet,” Lomazzi said. “It’s a constant struggle.”
Lomazzi serves as the executive director of the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee.
Since 1997, the nonprofit has put out the Homeward Street Journal, a newspaper meant to provide information, resources and news relevant to people who are homeless while also informing others about the challenges in finding and keeping affordable housing in the area.
“We’re continuing the fight for social justice for unhoused people,” Lomazzi said.
As concern about Sacramento’s homeless rises, a group of volunteers is seeking to educate the community members, regardless of their housing status, about the struggles faced by people who are without housing through the paper.
“There’s nothing like paper. There’s nothing like something you can hold in your hands, and pass from hand to hand,” said Cathleen Williams, who volunteers her time writing for Homeward.
The newspaper is also meant to provide a way for people in need to make money. The vendor program allows people who are without housing or formerly without housing to sell the paper for $1 and keep the profits.
“It’s crucial that have people have ready access to each other. It’s a part of the networking process where they can write for it; they can read it. They can be uplifted and educated by it and participate in it,” Williams said. “All those things make it important.”
For more information about the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee or the Homeward Street Journal, you can go here.
