5)A state program funded by a tax on sports gambling winnings would fund the hiring of a battalion of photographers, writers, filmmakers and podcasters to fan out across Oregon and document the stories of the homeless under a series editorial guidelines modeled after the New Deal-era Farm Security's program of investigating the terrible working and living conditions of agricultural workers in the South. Think Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and James Agee. These artists would publish and publicize their efforts on multiple print and online platforms and archive them for future scholastic and artistic use. In this endeavor, America may discover something about the homeless and our collective responses to the crisis that we don't know yet or can't even conceive of knowing. The creative process might also assist the homeless in telling their stories, and for some, perhaps even many, this could be the first step to making the transition out of homelessness.
Modest Proposals to Address the Homeless Crisis (Part 2)
Outstanding ideas.