"How About Putting a Man In an Apartment?"

I found this little blurb about homelessness accidentally. I wasn't exactly proactively searching for a first-person, real life account of homelessness from a victim of homelessness; it sort of just happened. Still, accident or not, this guy's short bio will- and should- knock you on your ass. The weird thing is that, aside from a few misspellings and a grammatical error or two, Michael Brown (dude's name) is really not a bad writer- a testament to the fact that homelessness and financial peril aren't limited strictly to the uneducated. His experiences lend his words greater pertinence and authenticity. Brown voices- I'm sure inadvertantly- a view similar to that of my favorite comedian, David Cross, when he burns the government for its homeless problem. I'm paraphrasing here, but I'm going to put Cross's joke into quotes because I'd recall it verbatim if I had't forgotten it already, "Yeah, we're putting a man on the moon...great, how about putting a man in an apartment?!" I mean, seriously, that simple sentiment may sound banal to most folks who spend their evenings sleeping in thermastat-controlled rooms, under dry, warm IKEA sheets, but it can frustrate a lot of those who find themselves residing underneath the same underpasses where middle-America lets their dogs shit.More power to Michael Brown and I hope I can be in a position to help this cat one day.

(Funny thing about the guy's name- Mike Brown- for all we know, since he's ostensibly out of a job, it could be former FEMA director Brown. Unfortunately, this Mike Brown is probably a good guy who's looking to work hard and take responsibility for himself- a sort of deviation from the inept, one-time FEMA director who, while thousands of hurricane victims were in the process of becoming homeless, jobless, penniless, and/or dead, was preoccupied with how his less-than fashionable ass appeared on FoxNEWS.)