Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week

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01 April 2025

Dying flower. 30 March 2025. Photo: Robert Gumpert

12 March 2025: Wall on the corner of 9th and McLea Ct. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert

16 March 2025: Wooden fence on Varney Pl in SOMA. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert

29 March 2025: Small poster on a telephone pole outside the Tesla dealership on Van Ness. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert

03 April 2019: Graffiti on Westbourne Grove near Chepstow Rd the London, England. Photo Robert Gumpert

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29 March 2025

RD sleeping rough on San Bruno, near the corner of Alameda. RD had no other belongings other than the cloths he was wearing. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 March 2025

RD is disabled due to an accident that required a bone to be replaced. San Bruno near the corner of Alameda. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 March 2025

RD. 38 years old and homeless off and on for about a year. Interviewed on San Bruno, near Alameda on 24 March 2025. Photo Robert Gumpert

“This is it [the cloths I’m wearing]. I’ve had stuff before. I mean I’ve been in a pretty comfortable position, even as homeless, where I had a full-time job (in another state before being injured).

I’ve only been here a couple of months but I’ve already got housing, I mean housing on my own, because I have disabilities that are completely crippling.  I’m unemployable is the bottom-line.

I’m totally doing everything that I’m supposed to be doing to be in the housing.  I’m in the process, I’m absolutely doing the whole housing track.  I’ve got to get a hold of the Hot-Team, and they said that within a couple of days from when I talk with them, after this last milestone, I’ll be in housing.  I just need to contact Hot-Team.  I just go their address today.  If I go in there and contact them, I’ll be in housing on my own, with my own name on the housing.  It won’t be in a shelter.  It’s a hotel room, and then from a hotel room to an apartment.

That will mean a lot. It means the world to me.  I like to have that stability.  It sounds kind of stupid and everything, but I don’t like to be without basics. I’m totally a person to be living what everyone else wants, where I conform and follow a standard. I feel less than the next person if I don’t.  So it means a lot to me.”

 

UCSF doctors warn: Abstinence-only approach to drug use can kill | Abigail Vân Neely/Mission Local

When is a bed not a bed? In Lurie’s plan to end homelessness, it matters. | Xueer Lu/Mission Local

Reality undermines "the claims that America makes for itself: If you do join the formal labor force, you will have certain reward," Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, told Jezebel. | Review Rainesford Stauffer/Jezebel

The Reads

Seton Delmer | Wikipedia

Forgotten in Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants | Jolie McCulloughPhotographs by Ilana Panich-Linsman/New York Times

The Diseases Are Coming | Craig Spencer/The Atlantic

A Symbol Reimagined: Merging Tradition and Technology in the Doomsday Clock | Tom Weis and Juan Noguera/PRINT

SENATOR SCHUMER VOTES TO LET THE BIG WOODEN HORSE INTO TROY | RYAN WOLIN/McSweeney’s


Podcasts

Peter Pomerantsev, author of "How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler," talked about the efforts of journalist Sefton Delmer in leading a propaganda war against Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler | C-Span Classroom


Photography/Art

Steve McQueen casts his eye on the act of resistance at Turner Contemporary | Dalia Al-Dujaili/BJP

Projects | Stephen Shames

New Capital | Photographs by Nick Hannes - Interview by Sophie Wright/LensCulture

Daniel Coe’s Astonishing River Cartography - River histories visualized as entangled, intricate textures | ART BY DANIEL COE/Orion






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