David Branum

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  David signed the petition | over 2 years ago

  Tell Your Senators: Now is the Time for Health Care Reform
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  David signed the petition | over 2 years ago

  Tell Congress: Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
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  David signed the petition | over 2 years ago

  Fight Cancer: Tell Congress We Need Real Health Care Reform Now
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  David commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Domestic Poverty Controversies: Who is Poor and How We Treat Them

  This is how the future must be to make a real difference...
  1) Promise Neighborhoods strategicaly placed throughout the United States.
  2) A self-subsistent Neighborhood Guild in every major City of the United States branched off from the Promise Neighborhoods.
  3) A Housing Diversion Program in every major City to prosecute people who choose to operate their residence in a manner detrimental to the community and to also provide redemption from housing violations.
  
  These things done right would change our Country on a large scale.

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  David commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Domestic Poverty Controversies: Who is Poor and How We Treat Them

  The major problem here is that the people creating law and programs have no idea what's really going on in these buildings. I have never heard any real life reports of what's actually going on in these neighborhoods/buildings except statistics and very limited accounts of individual experiences. As a developer, manager, and tenant I have lived among impoverished people, communities and buildings all my life. I think developing a working model that performed well in these environments for 7 years gives me a unique perspective that no one has been able to offer or show to date.  I have given an account of what’s really going on and no one really knows what to say or even wants to acknowledge what I am saying is real.  Aside from my personal drama and attitude, which I tried to minimize but you would have also if you lived the life I have, I have hit the nail right on the head and shown the truth and a realistic solution.  You can play out what I have experienced and learned a thousand times and the reality will be the same. HCZ will need to modify their model and when they do they will run into all of the problems I have already experienced and spelled out for you in my report.  But by all means ignore the dramatic messed up person that has already learned these lessons, but do so at your peril and the peril of our communities and society.
  
  I have sent my model and freely offer all of it to the Obama administration and HCZ; I require no profit, I am doing well personally. I feel I should be listened too and taken seriously, my life has shown me these things for a reason and we should use that information moving forward, it may be the difference between HCZ being moderately successful and being very successful. HCZ does have it right; it just doesn’t pencil out and needs to be adjusted to handle the problem on a much larger scale.

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  David commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Domestic Poverty Controversies: Who is Poor and How We Treat Them

  Ok I googled subsistent and it doesn't mean what I thought.  Self sufficient with no government money is what I meant.  Once the building is purchased the membership fees would pay for the expenses since making a profit will not be necessary.    

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  David commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Domestic Poverty Controversies: Who is Poor and How We Treat Them

  Obama is President and the new whitehouse.gov website is up *cheer*I see Obama and Biden are addressing the housing/social problem going on.
  
  Establish 20 Promise Neighborhoods: Obama and Biden will create 20 Promise Neighborhoods in areas that have high levels of poverty and crime and low levels of student academic achievement in cities across the nation. The Promise Neighborhoods will be modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides an entire neighborhood with a full network of services from birth to college, including early childhood education, youth violence prevention efforts, and after-school activities.
  I would like to thank them for making this information available to me so quickly.
  I have reviewed Harlem Children’s Zone; I know these 20 Promise Neighborhoods will do great. There are too many people that need help though and this intensive of a program costs money; I think add Neighborhood Guilds as a staging area, smaller version of the parent neighborhood that offers immediate access “time out” from life. Did I mention that these Neighborhood Guilds are self subsistent and cost the taxpayer and government nothing?
  
  Don’t forget Housing Diversion! There needs to be a penalty for operating a residence in a manner harmful to the community. 
  
  Don’t forget the people living in Hotel/Motels because they have unlawful detainers on their records and no one will rent to them; housing diversion to clear their housing record is just as needed as DUI diversion or their family suffers along with them.
  So good to communicate my ideas, I promise to slow down its just that this is the first opportunity, in my lifetime, that I have ever had access to our leaders and the community, I guess for me it was like a glass of water in the desert that someone was going to take away any moment. Now I realize that the water isn’t going anywhere.
  Thank you team Obama!

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  David commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Domestic Poverty Controversies: Who is Poor and How We Treat Them

  Lynda,
  
  I am very happy to hear from you, thank you for you comments and support.  I would be happy to share with you any and all research I have gathered.  I have spent 19 years of my life searching for these answers and unfortunatly my health and well being insist that I not physically go any further than just consulting now. I have gathered all of the answers I sought, I have shown them to be true by physically creating "Neighborhood Guilds", and now I have been able to share that information with the people, much to the dismay of this blog's author I am sure.  I needed closure or I would eat myself up inside and never have peace in my life again.
  
  I did the very best I could and I hope it will be enough because I have nothing left to offer except the knowledge and wisdom I have gained, and a bit of an attitude and confusion. Even if it is not recognized now I think someday someone, who is in a position to do something with it, will understand what I have said and use it to help others.  If not I have done my absolute best and I have no regrets.

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  David commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Domestic Poverty Controversies: Who is Poor and How We Treat Them

  A very wise person just pointed out to me that what I have designed/created is not a solution to poverty or homelessness but a tool that can be used to affect/contain the problem.  I would have to agree with that assessment.

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  David commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Domestic Poverty Controversies: Who is Poor and How We Treat Them

  I have been thinking and envisioning how a Neighborhood Guild would function on a larger scale than I built, I see it becoming a neutral zone, a safe area where people can be sheltered from their out of controll life and re-organize, re-prioritize, and gain the skills and confidence to turn life around.