William Menn has been living on the streets of Elk Grove, California, for five years. He once had a business, but he will only say he didn’t lose it because of COVID.

Menn fell off his bike recently. He broke his collar bone and two ribs. Now, his arm is in a sling. He didn’t whine or complain about it, and he didn’t ask for money or food.

But I offered to feed him. And I delivered.

Bill Menn’s most significant issue is a $5 million grant to help get the “unhoused” into homes. He complains that the money is not being used to help people like him.

The One-On-One Podcast

Our One-On-One happened because he was sleeping at a bus stop on Elk Grove Boulevard without shoes or socks.

Two days before Thanksgiving and I refused to drive by and forget it. The man needed socks, for God’s sake.

A Likable Guy

When we talked, he wasn’t on drugs or drunk; he seemed educated and very well-spoken. He has a sense of humor. At one point, he used this phrase, “They are as worthless at Tits on a Boar Hog.” He apologized for the profanity and said it was an old Texas saying. I laughed because I learned that phrase from one of my mentors, Mike Purl, at Channel 30, in Fresno, California.

Half A Million Homeless

An estimated half a million people, 580,000 plus Americans, are homeless. Men, women, families, and children.

They are either living on the streets, in makeshift shelters, or in Homeless shelters provided by the cities in which they live.

Some people live in their cars or crash at the homes of friends or family. We even have a cute name for it—Sofa Surfing.

And now, when I read stories about the homeless online, they are often called “Unhoused.”

But there is nothing cute or funny about being homeless. Not having a place to rest, or sleep, away from the cold is horrible.

And when you look at crime statistics in northern California, where I live, murders and crimes against the homeless are rising.

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The Homeless – Easy To Ignore

How many times a day do you drive or walk past a Homeless person? I think COVID kept many of us isolated, and we stopped seeing all the homeless people.

I was driving down Elk Grove Bouvelbard two days before Thanksgiving when I saw a homeless man with bare feet. No shoes, no socks. It’s November in California. Not extremely cold. But cooler. Too cool to be sockless.  

I recorded what happened next. Would you please listen to the Podcast?