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You can find the wattage of the rice cooker on the label, usually on the bottom. This is the maximum draw. From that you can estimate your total use. Just using the rice cooker when you are in the van will help to refine that use. Induction electric cookers are the latest thing, I’ve...

Certainly. I’ve seen meth but don’t really know about fentanyl. I think cooking and transport would be more likely a problem than addiction in the neighborhood mad world, more so nearer urban areas. Personally, I don’t care about most drug use but meth and opiates including fentanyl have...

I like the idea, but for the reasons you state the management is more complex. There however are a lot of working homeless, hopefully of a more transitional nature, what those actual numbers are and how they are changing may be difficult to get. There is certainly a tradition of services...

This lawsuit, though about stereotypical urban homelessness, is relevant to this topic. Perhaps most so in that we are treated as stereotypical homeless by many federal law enforcement. (But not Bullfrog, if I remember right!) I was one of those ‘transitional’ homeless after losing my house...

In a lawsuit addressing homeless camping in the City of Boulder a State District Judge has turned a motion to dismiss. Although this case addresses stereotypical homelessness there is substantial legal issue overlap, more so if you’ve ever stealth camped in a developed area. Technically any...

I don’t see evidence that this damage is NOT local. Garbage dumping is the most typical local negative impact. I do believe you are close enough to Denver to see overflow urban impact and I’m guessing that’s your biggest problem. Greater Boulder should be similar. That’s a distinct...

It was happening then, what’s made it a thing really is social media making it visible. Going back further recall that the Civilian Conservation Corps actually put people to work during times not all that different from today, in the NFS. It used to be it was de facto legal to camp over 14...

Prostitution happens out here, though I suspect solicitation would be wise to focus on expensive rigs, and truck stops. There are also people here on break from City work. Although I am not a customer I have zero problems with victimless ‘crime’. Please do respect folks privacy.

My brainstorm suggestion on another thread that HOWA consider becoming a membership organization has been portrayed by a few as some hidden agenda malicious thing. As such I’ll point out here the issues as I understand them generally, as well as my own specific concerns. The most general of...

I’d like them to read this thread. And comment on it!

It’s constructive feedback, like my original post.

I think the one to one help is more effective. I do that as well and there are lots of informal efforts as well including Van aid at Plomosa this weekend, pirate camp, and the two nomads helping nomads Facebook groups.

It’s three years, it’s not organized, and I am a small player. It’s lots of small players working constructively that makes a good organization, regardless of the legal form. I don’t see how you find that the fact I haven’t responded to a rather passive aggressive statement is proof of...

I have made no assertions of malicious actions on the part of HOWA. I will make that assertion on your post for coming to that conclusion without a basis. I would presume that there may well be reasons why you have interpreted this way, along with some of the males here as well...

It is certainly possible to get a bad result from a membership organization. I don’t think rules are what makes a success, it’s the people. At one time that would have been the active membership of this forum. Based on the negative nature of the responses to my general suggestion for...

Where do you find I’m trying to take over anyone’s work? There is no basis for that comment.

If that’s not clear, you should learn to be responsive to what people are actually saying.

There are a lot of people trying to build a better mouse trap. Van Aid, starting now for the second year may be the best.

It’s in progress. I’m definitely not the only one. Are you all coming along?

The public IRS form is called a 990 and they are available for any non-profit. If I have a hard critique of HOWA it’s how they respond to constructive communications, something evidenced in this thread. Capitalism and Democracy are great because they both have built in feedback mechanisms...