Remembering our friends and neighbors who have died without homes.
~from the Sacramento Housing Alliance, Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee (SHOC) and the National Coalition for the Homeless
Today, is the first day of winter and the longest night of the year. It also marks National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, a day intended to remember those who have been lost due to the harsh reality of living on the streets or in substandard housing. People who are homeless or at risk of homelessness experience more illness, including pneumonia, exposure, infectious diseases and other conditions as an outcome of dire living situations. Most die at an earlier age, often 20 to 25 years before the rest of the population.
Homeless people die from illnesses that affect everyone, frequently without healthcare. Homeless people die from exposure, unprotected from the heat and cold. Homeless people die from violence, often in unprovoked hate crimes.
Remember why they died.
Please take a moment to honor our friends and neighbors who died this year in Sacramento without homes:
In Memory Of
Eden Arlene Lua
Lloyd Steven Hancock
Irwin Horn
Marcella Davis
Raymond “Razor”Villanueva
Alfred Barnes
Brian “Redwood” Ritchey
Deaondre Sullivan
Allen “Bratt” Bray
Donaven Hernandez
Lori (Lorraine) Green Reed Haynes
Rick Terranova
Tracy Hall
Charles Koch
Ricky Greer
Richard Wright
David “Tweak” Ashford
Lawrence Daniel Smith
Natalie Jeanne Griffin
Stephen Dimas
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We must do better.
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