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Hope practitioners: If you could teach one thing about hope to someone feeling hopeless, what would it be? Building our wisdom library one insight at a time. buff.ly/DyQgITs #LettersToTheHoused #CommunityWisdom #SecondGraceLA
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August 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Radical hope to end homelessness.

100 people spent two days rebuilding LA County’s homelessness services.

#endhomelessness #socialjustice #communitysupport #losangeles #secondgracela #housingcrisis #homelessness #policy #radicalhope
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Orange Sky Laundry has developed a unique metric based on human connection.

It’s by focusing on the human aspect of this work that we create a more human society.

It starts with you!

#endhomelessness #housingforall #socialjustice #secondgracela #housingjustice #human #humanexperience #community
October 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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"The institutional machinery is moving faster than democratic oversight."
— Paul Asplund, Letters to the Housed

Full article → buff.ly/A4sbajJ

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April 29, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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"We were the only people passing through those turnstiles"

Empty Metro. Overflowing animal shelters. Fear has reshaped our city in weeks.

The human cost behind the economic statistics.

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When Fear Comes Knocking: Immigration Raids Push More LA Families Into Homelessness
Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA
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July 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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New clip: "44% of people experiencing homelessness are working and still can't afford housing."

The statistics that changed everything I thought I knew about neighbors and dignity.

Watch: buff.ly/kSvS5Kr

#Homelessness #Dignity #Statistics
From Wrestling to Surrender What Happens When We Stop Fighting the Call to Serve from SecondGraceLA
From Wrestling to Surrender: What Happens When We Stop Fighting the Call to Serve | Letters to the Housed What happens when we finally stop fighting what our souls are asking of us? In this episode…
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August 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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They Blossomed for We All Rise to the Level of Care We’re Given

What if your resistance to serving others isn't failure but part of the journey?

Full video: www.youtube.com/@SecondGraceLA

#SpiritualGrowth #Resistance #Community
August 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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adrienne maree brown taught me about "imagination battles"—we're living inside stories others told us were true.

When I see unhoused neighbors, I choose unlimited potential over broken narratives.
What story needs rewriting in your world?

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August 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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"There's mounting evidence that giving money directly to people facing homelessness actually works"

15 seconds of hope: Solutions exist and they're working.

Clip: youtube.com/shorts/XoN4S...

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25 seconds of hope: Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA #socialjustice
"There's mounting evidence that giving money directly to people facing homelessness actually works" 15 seconds of hope: The UK proved it works. LA can too. From this weekend's full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukTB0-9ICU Tuesday's full article: https://open.substack.com/pub/secondgracela/p/when-fear-comes-knocking-immigration Support: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fuel-hope-with-second-grace-la-this-giving-tuesday #SolutionsWork #Hope #CashAssistance #SecondGraceLA
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July 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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An excerpt from Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund.

I've also seen what works. Community-based solutions that engage people with lived experience in their own recovery. Neighbors helping neighbors. Love in action. Mutual aid networks that operate on relationships...

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Poster with text: I've also seen what works. Community-based solutions that engage people with lived experience in their own recovery. Neighbors helping neighbors. Love in action.
June 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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"Hope without action is abstract. Action without hope is hollow, but when hope and action come together through answering the call to serve something transcendent happens."

Watch: buff.ly/l31EJc4

#Hope #Action #Purpose
From Wrestling to Surrender What Happens When We Stop Fighting the Call to Serve from SecondGraceLA
From Wrestling to Surrender: What Happens When We Stop Fighting the Call to Serve | Letters to the Housed What happens when we finally stop fighting what our souls are asking of us? In this episode…
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August 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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"Radical Hope is not optimism. It is the choice to see clearly and remain engaged anyway."

The full four-part series: buff.ly/nxhphiu

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May 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Read: buff.ly/5bCYcze Full series: buff.ly/nxhphiu
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#EndHomelessness #2028Olympics #HousingJustice #MeasureULA #SecondGraceLA
Paul Asplund - House Them or Hide Them? LA’s Choice Before 2028 from Letters to the Housed | SecondGrace.LA
I will shed light on why our institutions can\u2019t end homelessness without us and introduce you to some of the most effective programs I\u2019ve found on the streets. Programs addressing the…
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April 21, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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This week's letter breaks down what Manchester built, what LA has (and doesn't), and what a real prevention system here could look like.
The solutions exist when we work together.
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The Most Expensive Mistake We’re Making: Why LA Doesn’t Prevent Youth Homelessness
Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA
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March 24, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Edgar Villanueva: "All of us forced to the margins harbor the best solutions." But those solutions remain unfunded because funders with least connection to problems control resources. At @SecondGraceLA we're choosing different. What's your experience with mission drift? buff.ly/fU6FUf6
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"I walked out onto a street shared by people on both ends of our divided economy."

New clip about how proximity at SF's 9th and Market changed everything. Sometimes geography breaks through resistance.

Watch: buff.ly/l31EJc4

#SanFrancisco #Proximity #Community
From Wrestling to Surrender What Happens When We Stop Fighting the Call to Serve from SecondGraceLA
From Wrestling to Surrender: What Happens When We Stop Fighting the Call to Serve | Letters to the Housed What happens when we finally stop fighting what our souls are asking of us? In this episode…
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August 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Hope isn't something you have—it's something you do. Tomorrow's wisdom from 7 teachers who changed my perspective.

What sustains you when the world feels broken?

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August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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"This is an emergency for all of us, housed and unhoused. We choose to let this go on. We can choose to end it."

Progress isn't enough when lives are at stake.

Join the solution: SecondGrace.LA/join

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July 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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New content release available Tuesday, July 1: We Do This Because We Love People. We heal in relationship, not isolation. Join us: substack.com/@secondgracela

#CompassionFatigue #HealingCentered #ServiceWork #SocialJustice #Leadership
June 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM