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Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

Homeless in Modesto: The Tide Rises

January 28, 2020 By Eric Caine 8 Comments

Building near Modesto Gospel Mission, Modesto

Two days before last Christmas, Mary was sitting on the curb at the intersection of Morris and Sycamore, scratching lottery tickets. Alan Davis, the wheel-chair bound amputee, had once again bolted from the new county shelter in the Berberian Building on Modesto’s south 9th Street. He was downtown on J Street, between 11th and 12th  Streets, eating a sandwich from the nearby Subway Shop. A block or so away, across […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness and Poverty in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

Homeless? The future for many is a tent

December 26, 2019 By Eric Caine 13 Comments

Trailing away from MOES final

Despite concerted efforts to get people into shelters and affordable housing, homeless numbers in the west have been increasing rapidly. In Stanislaus County, the numbers haven’t worked since experiments with tent encampments ended a few weeks ago, when the Modesto Outdoor Emergency Shelter (MOES) closed down. City and county authorities decided MOES wasn’t needed after expansion of the city’s Salvation Army Berberian Shelter. The expansion added 182 beds to the […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness and Poverty in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

Visions of the Homeless: through the artist’s eye

December 14, 2019 By Eric Caine 6 Comments

Modesto Outdoor Emergency Shelter

Raven Partida doesn’t have any special camera equipment or training, but she’s been taking pictures for years. Many of her more recent photos are of homeless people, their dogs, and their environment. Prior to this new interest, she photographed a variety of inanimate things, especially abandoned buildings and homes. Partida says that she was one of those kids whose, “head was stuck in the National Geographic Magazine.” “The last 15 […]

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Homelessness and Poverty in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

Good Samaritan Locates Alan Davis, Gets Help

November 30, 2019 By Eric Caine 1 Comment

Frank Ploof with Alan Davis

Back in May and June, when he was working near the county courthouse in downtown Modesto, Tony Montalbo used to keep tabs on Alan Davis, the disabled homeless man who just recently wandered away from the new shelter in the Salvation Army’s Berberian building on 9th and D Streets. “We’re buds, really,” said Montalbo Saturday. “I used to check on him and bring him some food just to make sure […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness and Poverty in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

Wheelchair-bound Amputee Back on the Streets of Modesto

November 29, 2019 By Eric Caine 1 Comment

Alan Davis on the street

Alan Davis, the homeless man who was taken to the Modesto Outdoor Emergency Shelter (MOES) in late September is back on the streets. Davis had spent a little over two months at MOES and seemed to be doing well when he was moved to the new shelter in the Salvation Army’s Berberian building on 9th and D Streets. Prior to arriving at MOES, Davis had spent many months haunting the […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness and Poverty in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

Homeless: “Don’t rip our community apart.”

November 17, 2019 By Eric Caine 6 Comments

Woman with dog

Last Wednesday’s meeting of the Stanislaus Homeless Alliance in Modesto’s City Council Chambers made one thing perfectly clear: There is a huge disconnect between residents of Modesto’s Outdoor Emergency Shelter (MOES) and working members of the Alliance. While board members were chiefly interested in touting the features of what they have designated as a new low-barrier homeless shelter in the Salvation Army Berberian Building on Modesto’s 9th Street, representatives and […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness and Poverty in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

A Dog Named Bandit (and Furends)

November 9, 2019 By Eric Caine 6 Comments

Bandit's furends setting up

Before a routine outing, Misty Eckerdt, assisted by family and volunteer friends, packs 1000 pounds of dry dog food into gallon baggies. That doesn’t include the canned food, leashes, doggy jackets, toys, blankets, medicine, and a few items for cats that she and her crew load into the Ford cargo van she uses when she visits sites frequented by poor people and their pets. The van features a large photo […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness and Poverty in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

How a Wheelchair-bound Amputee came to the Streets of Modesto

October 25, 2019 By Eric Caine 8 Comments

Alan Davis welfare office

The story of how a wheel-chair bound amputee ended up on the streets of Modesto for over a year is slowly emerging. Alan Davis, whose right leg was amputated at Sutter Hospital in Sacramento sometime in April of 2018, was sent to the Modesto Specialty Hospital in May of that same year, when there was no space for him in Sacramento rehab facilities. Davis arrived at the Modesto hospital on […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

Homeless: “You’re not going to like this.”

October 4, 2019 By Eric Caine 13 Comments

Julia Orlando

Julia Orlando came to town Friday. Orlando is the Director of Bergen County’s Housing, Health, and Human Services Center. She achieved nationwide fame in 2017, when the New Jersey County became the first officially recognized county in the United States to end chronic homelessness, defined as including people “who have experienced homelessness for at least one year or repeatedly while struggling with a disabling condition.” With decades of experience developing […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness and Poverty in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley, Julia Orlando

Homeless: Alan Davis Gets a Shower

September 26, 2019 By Eric Caine 7 Comments

Alan Davis at Cleansing Hope Shower Shuttle

Frank Ploof, who coordinates services at the Modesto Outdoor Emergency Shelter (MOES), probably wasn’t thinking about fate or destiny as he was pushing Alan Davis uphill last Wednesday, but he could have been. Ploof was pushing Davis toward a rendezvous  with his own brainchild. At least that’s the story according to Dean Dodd, the high-energy force behind the Cleansing Hope Shower Shuttle, a rolling marvel of a brilliantly-executed but simple […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Homelessness in Modesto, Homelessness in Stanislaus County, Homelessness in the San Joaquin Valley

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