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SecondGrace is a community of people committed to ending homelessness in LA County. Join us https://secondgrace.la/
This week on mission drift: Your responses reminded me why this work matters. So many leaders navigating the impossible bargain—grow big enough to get resources, watch those resources warp everything.
Next week: how funders fund their own kind through proximity, not malice.
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Next week: how funders fund their own kind through proximity, not malice.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This week on mission drift: Your responses reminded me why this work matters. So many leaders navigating the impossible bargain—grow big enough to get resources, watch those resources warp everything.
Next week: how funders fund their own kind through proximity, not malice.
buff.ly/fU6FUf6
Next week: how funders fund their own kind through proximity, not malice.
buff.ly/fU6FUf6
EPISODE 6 now available: Remember the Small Victories.
Every shower matters.
Every conversation matters.
Every moment of dignity restored matters.
You may not end the crisis today, but you absolutely made someone's day better.
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#PracticalGrace #SmallVictories #BurnoutPrevention
Every shower matters.
Every conversation matters.
Every moment of dignity restored matters.
You may not end the crisis today, but you absolutely made someone's day better.
buff.ly/XmGdstx
#PracticalGrace #SmallVictories #BurnoutPrevention
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
EPISODE 6 now available: Remember the Small Victories.
Every shower matters.
Every conversation matters.
Every moment of dignity restored matters.
You may not end the crisis today, but you absolutely made someone's day better.
buff.ly/XmGdstx
#PracticalGrace #SmallVictories #BurnoutPrevention
Every shower matters.
Every conversation matters.
Every moment of dignity restored matters.
You may not end the crisis today, but you absolutely made someone's day better.
buff.ly/XmGdstx
#PracticalGrace #SmallVictories #BurnoutPrevention
Let's be honest about where we are: LA needs 500,000 affordable units. At current pace, we're building 3% of what's required. Commercial development model asking for $708,000 per unit isn't working.
Meanwhile, 77% of extremely low-income families pay over half their income for rent.
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Meanwhile, 77% of extremely low-income families pay over half their income for rent.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Let's be honest about where we are: LA needs 500,000 affordable units. At current pace, we're building 3% of what's required. Commercial development model asking for $708,000 per unit isn't working.
Meanwhile, 77% of extremely low-income families pay over half their income for rent.
buff.ly/tWqs7eT
Meanwhile, 77% of extremely low-income families pay over half their income for rent.
buff.ly/tWqs7eT
Before every Olympics, host cities face the same choice.
Our research found that over 20 years, Olympics displaced 2+ million people globally. The pattern is clear: hide the crisis, don't solve it.
LA can break this pattern. We have 3 years to build permanent housing.
Our research found that over 20 years, Olympics displaced 2+ million people globally. The pattern is clear: hide the crisis, don't solve it.
LA can break this pattern. We have 3 years to build permanent housing.
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Before every Olympics, host cities face the same choice.
Our research found that over 20 years, Olympics displaced 2+ million people globally. The pattern is clear: hide the crisis, don't solve it.
LA can break this pattern. We have 3 years to build permanent housing.
Our research found that over 20 years, Olympics displaced 2+ million people globally. The pattern is clear: hide the crisis, don't solve it.
LA can break this pattern. We have 3 years to build permanent housing.
60,000 people lose housing yearly in LA County. Prevention is cost-effective. But we call it a giveaway while crisis response burns millions.
Which makes more sense? Learn more: buff.ly/QNqqzNA
#Prevention #HousingPolicy
Which makes more sense? Learn more: buff.ly/QNqqzNA
#Prevention #HousingPolicy
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
60,000 people lose housing yearly in LA County. Prevention is cost-effective. But we call it a giveaway while crisis response burns millions.
Which makes more sense? Learn more: buff.ly/QNqqzNA
#Prevention #HousingPolicy
Which makes more sense? Learn more: buff.ly/QNqqzNA
#Prevention #HousingPolicy
Orange Sky Laundry has developed a unique metric based on human connection.
It’s by focusing on the human aspect of this work that we create a more human society.
It starts with you!
#endhomelessness #housingforall #socialjustice #secondgracela #housingjustice #human #humanexperience #community
It’s by focusing on the human aspect of this work that we create a more human society.
It starts with you!
#endhomelessness #housingforall #socialjustice #secondgracela #housingjustice #human #humanexperience #community
October 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Orange Sky Laundry has developed a unique metric based on human connection.
It’s by focusing on the human aspect of this work that we create a more human society.
It starts with you!
#endhomelessness #housingforall #socialjustice #secondgracela #housingjustice #human #humanexperience #community
It’s by focusing on the human aspect of this work that we create a more human society.
It starts with you!
#endhomelessness #housingforall #socialjustice #secondgracela #housingjustice #human #humanexperience #community
Episode 3. Practical Grace: Build Community
"We heal in relationship, not isolation."
Find your people. The ones who understand why you tear up at victories and rage at preventable tragedies.
Thursday 6 AM PT
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#PracticalGrace #Community #BurnoutPrevention #FindYourPeople
"We heal in relationship, not isolation."
Find your people. The ones who understand why you tear up at victories and rage at preventable tragedies.
Thursday 6 AM PT
buff.ly/YIq2kok
#PracticalGrace #Community #BurnoutPrevention #FindYourPeople
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Episode 3. Practical Grace: Build Community
"We heal in relationship, not isolation."
Find your people. The ones who understand why you tear up at victories and rage at preventable tragedies.
Thursday 6 AM PT
buff.ly/YIq2kok
#PracticalGrace #Community #BurnoutPrevention #FindYourPeople
"We heal in relationship, not isolation."
Find your people. The ones who understand why you tear up at victories and rage at preventable tragedies.
Thursday 6 AM PT
buff.ly/YIq2kok
#PracticalGrace #Community #BurnoutPrevention #FindYourPeople
When I was homeless, success meant becoming a tax-paying citizen. Not humanity. Not recovery. Economic productivity.
We can't solve homelessness until we challenge who deserves to exist. Join us: buff.ly/ze5KpNM
#SystemicChange #HumanValue
We can't solve homelessness until we challenge who deserves to exist. Join us: buff.ly/ze5KpNM
#SystemicChange #HumanValue
October 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
When I was homeless, success meant becoming a tax-paying citizen. Not humanity. Not recovery. Economic productivity.
We can't solve homelessness until we challenge who deserves to exist. Join us: buff.ly/ze5KpNM
#SystemicChange #HumanValue
We can't solve homelessness until we challenge who deserves to exist. Join us: buff.ly/ze5KpNM
#SystemicChange #HumanValue
Revealing conversations happened in the margins. Over lunch. In parking lots. That's where we talked about capitalism as religion, why 40 years of policy failed, and whether we should work within the system or tear it down. Part 3 is live.
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#SystemicChange #RadicalHope #Reform
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#SystemicChange #RadicalHope #Reform
October 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Revealing conversations happened in the margins. Over lunch. In parking lots. That's where we talked about capitalism as religion, why 40 years of policy failed, and whether we should work within the system or tear it down. Part 3 is live.
buff.ly/QNqqzNA
#SystemicChange #RadicalHope #Reform
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#SystemicChange #RadicalHope #Reform
"You wouldn't tell a friend they're not doing enough when they're giving everything they have." So why say it to yourself? Talk to yourself like you'd talk to a friend. You deserve that kindness.
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#PracticalGrace #SelfCompassion #BurnoutPrevention #ServiceWorkers
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#PracticalGrace #SelfCompassion #BurnoutPrevention #ServiceWorkers
October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"You wouldn't tell a friend they're not doing enough when they're giving everything they have." So why say it to yourself? Talk to yourself like you'd talk to a friend. You deserve that kindness.
buff.ly/YIq2kok
#PracticalGrace #SelfCompassion #BurnoutPrevention #ServiceWorkers
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#PracticalGrace #SelfCompassion #BurnoutPrevention #ServiceWorkers
Radical hope to end homelessness.
100 people spent two days rebuilding LA County’s homelessness services.
#endhomelessness #socialjustice #communitysupport #losangeles #secondgracela #housingcrisis #homelessness #policy #radicalhope
100 people spent two days rebuilding LA County’s homelessness services.
#endhomelessness #socialjustice #communitysupport #losangeles #secondgracela #housingcrisis #homelessness #policy #radicalhope
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Radical hope to end homelessness.
100 people spent two days rebuilding LA County’s homelessness services.
#endhomelessness #socialjustice #communitysupport #losangeles #secondgracela #housingcrisis #homelessness #policy #radicalhope
100 people spent two days rebuilding LA County’s homelessness services.
#endhomelessness #socialjustice #communitysupport #losangeles #secondgracela #housingcrisis #homelessness #policy #radicalhope
NEW VIDEO SERIES: Practical Grace
Burnout isn't a personal failing—it's a systemic crisis affecting service workers everywhere. Starting TODAY (6 AM PT), we're launching an 8-part series with evidence-based tools to prevent burnout.
Episode 1: "Remember Why We Do This Work"
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Burnout isn't a personal failing—it's a systemic crisis affecting service workers everywhere. Starting TODAY (6 AM PT), we're launching an 8-part series with evidence-based tools to prevent burnout.
Episode 1: "Remember Why We Do This Work"
buff.ly/pYFt7UH
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
NEW VIDEO SERIES: Practical Grace
Burnout isn't a personal failing—it's a systemic crisis affecting service workers everywhere. Starting TODAY (6 AM PT), we're launching an 8-part series with evidence-based tools to prevent burnout.
Episode 1: "Remember Why We Do This Work"
buff.ly/pYFt7UH
Burnout isn't a personal failing—it's a systemic crisis affecting service workers everywhere. Starting TODAY (6 AM PT), we're launching an 8-part series with evidence-based tools to prevent burnout.
Episode 1: "Remember Why We Do This Work"
buff.ly/pYFt7UH
LAHSA suffered accusations of malfeasance for years. Their close relationship with the homelessness industrial complex allowed vast funds spent without accountability.
Now they're disbanded. HSH is being built almost from scratch.
Will agencies change how they provide services?
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Now they're disbanded. HSH is being built almost from scratch.
Will agencies change how they provide services?
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
October 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
LAHSA suffered accusations of malfeasance for years. Their close relationship with the homelessness industrial complex allowed vast funds spent without accountability.
Now they're disbanded. HSH is being built almost from scratch.
Will agencies change how they provide services?
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
Now they're disbanded. HSH is being built almost from scratch.
Will agencies change how they provide services?
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
LA County: 5,000 square miles. 100+ languages. Mountains, deserts, ocean, thousands of miles of roads. No one size fits all here. But diversity is our superpower. HSH is taking advantage of that strength through these convenings.
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#LACounty #HSH #Diversity
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#LACounty #HSH #Diversity
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
LA County: 5,000 square miles. 100+ languages. Mountains, deserts, ocean, thousands of miles of roads. No one size fits all here. But diversity is our superpower. HSH is taking advantage of that strength through these convenings.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
#LACounty #HSH #Diversity
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#LACounty #HSH #Diversity
Deportations tear families apart, requiring quick response with love and respect for those left behind.
Efforts to erase trans people are moves to exclude minorities. We must be innovative and effective at street level.
This work requires us to be brilliant and loving.
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Efforts to erase trans people are moves to exclude minorities. We must be innovative and effective at street level.
This work requires us to be brilliant and loving.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Deportations tear families apart, requiring quick response with love and respect for those left behind.
Efforts to erase trans people are moves to exclude minorities. We must be innovative and effective at street level.
This work requires us to be brilliant and loving.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
Efforts to erase trans people are moves to exclude minorities. We must be innovative and effective at street level.
This work requires us to be brilliant and loving.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
Radical hope asks us to live in the world we imagine.
I live in a world where we are brilliant, loving, caring, and effective. I invite you to live here too. Nothing can stop us when we work together. We can change the world by our very presence.
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#RadicalHope #CommunityPower
I live in a world where we are brilliant, loving, caring, and effective. I invite you to live here too. Nothing can stop us when we work together. We can change the world by our very presence.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
#RadicalHope #CommunityPower
September 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Radical hope asks us to live in the world we imagine.
I live in a world where we are brilliant, loving, caring, and effective. I invite you to live here too. Nothing can stop us when we work together. We can change the world by our very presence.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
#RadicalHope #CommunityPower
I live in a world where we are brilliant, loving, caring, and effective. I invite you to live here too. Nothing can stop us when we work together. We can change the world by our very presence.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
#RadicalHope #CommunityPower
One of our biggest challenges: poor tracking of interactions with people we serve.
Funding creates silos preventing information sharing between agencies. The path to whole care coordination is fraught but fixable.
We can live in the world we imagine.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
#SystemicChange #WholeCare
Funding creates silos preventing information sharing between agencies. The path to whole care coordination is fraught but fixable.
We can live in the world we imagine.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
#SystemicChange #WholeCare
September 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
One of our biggest challenges: poor tracking of interactions with people we serve.
Funding creates silos preventing information sharing between agencies. The path to whole care coordination is fraught but fixable.
We can live in the world we imagine.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
#SystemicChange #WholeCare
Funding creates silos preventing information sharing between agencies. The path to whole care coordination is fraught but fixable.
We can live in the world we imagine.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
#SystemicChange #WholeCare
September 20th marked the most consequential nine months of federal policy change in my lifetime.
Immigration, LGBTQ rights, homelessness policies increasing instability. 60,000 people lose housing yearly in LA. Hundreds of thousands barely hanging on.
Policy has consequences.
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Immigration, LGBTQ rights, homelessness policies increasing instability. 60,000 people lose housing yearly in LA. Hundreds of thousands barely hanging on.
Policy has consequences.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
September 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
September 20th marked the most consequential nine months of federal policy change in my lifetime.
Immigration, LGBTQ rights, homelessness policies increasing instability. 60,000 people lose housing yearly in LA. Hundreds of thousands barely hanging on.
Policy has consequences.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
Immigration, LGBTQ rights, homelessness policies increasing instability. 60,000 people lose housing yearly in LA. Hundreds of thousands barely hanging on.
Policy has consequences.
buff.ly/KPOkhKO
LA is hosting 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics. We need plans NOW to ensure unhoused neighbors retain rights during mass relocations.
Safety and dignity for all requires simple safeguards and planning for hundreds of thousands of visitors.
This can be done right.
Learn more: buff.ly/hX6iC4w
Safety and dignity for all requires simple safeguards and planning for hundreds of thousands of visitors.
This can be done right.
Learn more: buff.ly/hX6iC4w
September 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
LA is hosting 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics. We need plans NOW to ensure unhoused neighbors retain rights during mass relocations.
Safety and dignity for all requires simple safeguards and planning for hundreds of thousands of visitors.
This can be done right.
Learn more: buff.ly/hX6iC4w
Safety and dignity for all requires simple safeguards and planning for hundreds of thousands of visitors.
This can be done right.
Learn more: buff.ly/hX6iC4w
The homelessness industrial complex: public institutions positioned to scoop up federal dollars while actual coordination remains broken.
They don't own the data but rely on it to justify funding. Real change requires federal funding structure reform.
Slow but not impossible.
buff.ly/hX6iC4w
They don't own the data but rely on it to justify funding. Real change requires federal funding structure reform.
Slow but not impossible.
buff.ly/hX6iC4w
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The homelessness industrial complex: public institutions positioned to scoop up federal dollars while actual coordination remains broken.
They don't own the data but rely on it to justify funding. Real change requires federal funding structure reform.
Slow but not impossible.
buff.ly/hX6iC4w
They don't own the data but rely on it to justify funding. Real change requires federal funding structure reform.
Slow but not impossible.
buff.ly/hX6iC4w
Who owns your data when you're experiencing homelessness?
Not you. Facebook, X, Cambridge Analytica & thousands of data brokers made it a commodity. But here's where we'll see the quickest change...
Tomorrow: my full analysis on systemic solutions
#DataRights
Tags: @prisonpolicy @nationalalliance
Not you. Facebook, X, Cambridge Analytica & thousands of data brokers made it a commodity. But here's where we'll see the quickest change...
Tomorrow: my full analysis on systemic solutions
#DataRights
Tags: @prisonpolicy @nationalalliance
September 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Who owns your data when you're experiencing homelessness?
Not you. Facebook, X, Cambridge Analytica & thousands of data brokers made it a commodity. But here's where we'll see the quickest change...
Tomorrow: my full analysis on systemic solutions
#DataRights
Tags: @prisonpolicy @nationalalliance
Not you. Facebook, X, Cambridge Analytica & thousands of data brokers made it a commodity. But here's where we'll see the quickest change...
Tomorrow: my full analysis on systemic solutions
#DataRights
Tags: @prisonpolicy @nationalalliance
Resources for when the work becomes too much:
Crisis Text Line: 741741
SAMHSA: 1-800-662-4357
Self-Compassion.org for Dr. Kristin Neff's practices. You're not alone in this work. Taking care of yourself IS taking care of the community.
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#Resources #MentalHealth #Community
Crisis Text Line: 741741
SAMHSA: 1-800-662-4357
Self-Compassion.org for Dr. Kristin Neff's practices. You're not alone in this work. Taking care of yourself IS taking care of the community.
buff.ly/jW2d6hE
#Resources #MentalHealth #Community
September 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Resources for when the work becomes too much:
Crisis Text Line: 741741
SAMHSA: 1-800-662-4357
Self-Compassion.org for Dr. Kristin Neff's practices. You're not alone in this work. Taking care of yourself IS taking care of the community.
buff.ly/jW2d6hE
#Resources #MentalHealth #Community
Crisis Text Line: 741741
SAMHSA: 1-800-662-4357
Self-Compassion.org for Dr. Kristin Neff's practices. You're not alone in this work. Taking care of yourself IS taking care of the community.
buff.ly/jW2d6hE
#Resources #MentalHealth #Community
Practice forgiveness exercises. When expectations aren't met, resentment builds. Emmett Fox's forgiveness process: write it down, work through it, release it. The freedom is instant. buff.ly/UiQMNXz
September 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Practice forgiveness exercises. When expectations aren't met, resentment builds. Emmett Fox's forgiveness process: write it down, work through it, release it. The freedom is instant. buff.ly/UiQMNXz
Take care of your health first. You can't give away what you haven't got. This isn't selfish—it's the foundation of sustainable service. What does your self-care routine look like? buff.ly/UiQMNXz
September 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Take care of your health first. You can't give away what you haven't got. This isn't selfish—it's the foundation of sustainable service. What does your self-care routine look like? buff.ly/UiQMNXz
In LA: 3,400 unhoused veterans + 4,000+ unused housing vouchers = bureaucratic failure costing lives. 6 people die daily on streets while veteran units sit vacant for YEARS.
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#EndHomelessness #HousingForAll #MilitarySpending
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#EndHomelessness #HousingForAll #MilitarySpending
September 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In LA: 3,400 unhoused veterans + 4,000+ unused housing vouchers = bureaucratic failure costing lives. 6 people die daily on streets while veteran units sit vacant for YEARS.
buff.ly/TW1OKdC
#EndHomelessness #HousingForAll #MilitarySpending
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#EndHomelessness #HousingForAll #MilitarySpending