A new way to help the homeless... It does not exist yet, but the subject is so close to 'home' that I must address it... We have a problem in most major cities, one that isn't going away... If anything it will increase, if our society continues to follow corporate tactics like the housing bubble of the last decade... Religions say they help the suffering, and then lock the church doors while people sleep in the alley out back... WTF is wrong with our world? Governments are more likely to round up the homeless and place them in mandatory internment camps... So it is overdue time for some drastic out-of-the-bot thinking... Haha, that was a typo but I am leaving it for the lulz...
Steemit Transitional Housing Network... A real non-profit NGO with donors and grants and a paid staff, assets in real estate and various coin exchanges... An organization based on the pay-it-forward model, where scarcity is not a reason to misbehave... If the idea were done right, each city would form a version of the STHN and we could get them all under one umbrella for convenience... I want to point out right now, this is not me wanting power, or money, or even fame for this... I see myself as more of a Wozniak, as opposed to a Steve Jobs... We do need a Captain Kirk to my Spock, but this post first...
Bottom line is that each qualified client (homeless individual) would get a free place to stay, a steemit account, and access to computer terminals... That alone would dramatically increase the ACTUAL voice of the homeless on Steemit, and could become quite a formidable voting bloc on their own! Anyway, the pay-it-forward values come in at this point, because as lives are transformed, the synergy and community will only increase exponentially... Basically I have become pretty good at sniffing out lightning in a bottle, and I am telling you, this is that...
So what do we need, to make this happen? Let me brainstorm a quick wishlist, see what I end up with... (I am forming this as I type, LOL!)
A person who has started or run a non-profit organization before... Even if you only consult and don't take a position, we need your perspectives for this to come together...
A grant-writer and/or Outreach Coordinator, to form ties and partnerships with other NGOs, the media, donors and alumni, and also dealing with church and state... (That may be a separate position!)
A social worker type person, to act as point person for the intake of new clients... Someone willing to be a sponsor or big sibling to a person in need...
Things like this ALWAYS need lawyers... Please pro bono us so we can veni vidi visa...
An systems-admin type person to create a network of various steemit transitional housing endeavors, for consistency and clarity, as well as covering legal bases...
A real-estate person... If you also had experience with developing or renovating properties, even better... I predict we will acquire a run-down building and make it into a warehouse crypto commune... Maybe it would be cool enough that I would want to live there! "We built this city on Block and Chain..." LOL!
A sustainable development person, like the Earthship guy... I would love to see every single aspect of this undertaking to reflect enlightened values... Like finding ways to do life differently, because this world sucks for most poor folks... Let's build our own rockets and moon colony! SteemX, lulz...
Okay, that is a good start for a wish list... I am not thinking of this materializing the minute I click POST... Haha, what a fast burnout that would be... Nope! I am only testing the waters here, to see if the idea wants to be in the world and have its way with humanity... As far as dynamic changes that I have caused or initiated, this is possibly my best ever... Won't you join with me, in imagining a best reality? Universal Basic Housing, and eff you if you think it is useless to dream! This could become bigger than Greedpeace!
Hopefully you will ask any questions that arise inside you, in a comment below... I don't know how well I have conveyed this vision... Did my strong passion shine through? Because this fires me up to a fever roar, people... I cannot save the world on my own, but I cannot stand and watch as dysfunction gets labeled function... Nope... I am drawing a line in the sand... Enjoy the comfort of your living space, and then come help others get one too! Occupy your PLANET!
Okay, I am just going to light this fuse and walk away...