Yesterday I started a new project called BasePlace (one day before my sister's birthday). BasePlace.org is a web-based collection of online communities. Each community targets a different class of marginalized individuals. The first community to be implemented consists of those individuals with mental health issues (commonly known as "consumer/survivors").
In other news involving my personal life, my dear friend Constance recently moved into a nice bachelor apartment just a 20-minute walk from my condo. It's not too far from the supermarket and it's much nicer (but a bit smaller) than her previous room, which was located downtown, run by Fred Victor, and she had to share a kitchen with 4 or 5 other people. That Fred Victor housing I think was aimed at housing former street people. Constance was homeless for almost 15 years, bouncing around from shelter to shelter. Constance has schizophrenia and all 8 of her fingers (not her thumbs) were amputated due to severe frostbite prior to her becoming homeless. At that time her psychosis prevented her from having the sense to seek shelter during an extremely cold 3-week period one winter. She is from Nigeria and came to Canada as a refugee about 25 years ago.
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