Alan Graham

And I asked one time, where did the word homeless come from?

And she went and researched it.

And the first time that she could find it

appeared back in like the 700s in a limerick from Ireland or something, an Irish limerick.

And then it didn't reappear again until about the 15th, 16th, 17th century type of thing.

And it was not even hardly present.

When you get to the 1970s and 80s, the word became ubiquitous.

And through a Google search, you can see that this word appears in every publication, on every news media staff, a million times every single day.

It just becomes... And why...

In this window of time, basically the 70s on, is that word so prevalent?

Because we didn't have this.

When I moved from Austin, Texas, I mean from Houston, Texas, the Houston area in 1976, there weren't people standing on our street corners begging.

You had the, you know, the Otises from the

You know, Andy and Mayberry, downtown, chronic inebriate, drunk downtown, but it wasn't ubiquitous on every single street corner.

What the hell happened in the past 46, 47 years?

Well, profound loss of family, culture of death within our community.

Culture of death?

Culture of death, just people not caring about other human beings.

Are individual rights superseding the rights of the community?

No.