Introducing the Homeless Club of America (HCA)

Hello World,

My name is Tony. I am a homeless veteran living on the streets of Miami (Dade County). If you want to read my story, please go to the "About Me" section of this blog.

Basically, after watching the homeless struggle (and sometimes not struggle) on the streets of Miami for months, I decided it's time to do something constructive to help this local problem.

With an economy on the brink, homelessness will become an unavoidable fact of life in every city. Capitalism is not an economic system that has any built-in protection for even the most resourceful. You fall off that train, and another might not be coming ever! But people are not refuse. They cannot be put in a landfill out of the way of the Capitalistic empire, to biodegrade.
They are like plastic, and will still be around years later (albeit a little beat up).

Anyway the Homeless Club of America is a brainchild of mine, that will actually help homeless people be able to work more than they can now and thus help themselves more. My vision is simple. Create a club that present and past homeless people can join as members. Starting in Miami, I want to build HCA Clubhouses that simply do one thing--facilitate the homeless so that no barriers to finding permanent, temporary, full-time, or part-time work exists.

The function of the HCA Clubhouse will be to provide access to storage closets (or lockers) with 24 hour access. To provide shower/cloth change stations for the verified employed. To provide laundry machines to the homeless. To provide bag lunches for those requesting.

Basically, the streets will still provide food and a place to sleep for the homeless. The HCA Clubhouse will be there to mitigate those other barriers (like what to do with my belongings) that prevent a lot of homeless people from actually working or job searching. As a homeless person I know from experience, this is a major problem.