🔥 HELFIRE DISPATCH 🔥

Vacancy Is Violence

There are 771,480 unhoused people in the United States. And more than 16 million vacant homes. That’s not a mismatch. That’s a design.

This country does not lack shelter. It lacks will. It lacks empathy. It lacks the courage to confront its own architecture of abandonment.

Who are the unhoused?

Veterans discarded after service
Queer youth exiled from family
Survivors of domestic violence
Elders priced out of their own neighborhoods
Disabled people denied accessible housing
Workers who build the city but can’t afford to live in it

They are not statistics. They are the archive. They are the memory of every broken promise.

Vacancy is not passive. It is violent.

Each empty unit is a locked door. Each luxury condo is a monument to greed. Each eviction notice is a ritual of erasure.

And those in power?

They do not build bridges. They build barriers. They fund police, not shelters. They criminalize survival. They call tent encampments “blight” and pass laws to sweep them away.

But we see through it.

Voices from the Archive

“I fought for this country. Now I fight for a dry place to sleep.” — Unhoused Veteran, Los Angeles

“I didn’t run away. I was pushed out. My parents said being queer was a sin. The streets said surviving was rebellion.” — Youth Survivor, Chicago

“I had a job. I had a home. Then cancer came. Then bills. Then eviction. Now I have a blanket and a bench.” — Former Nurse, Atlanta

“We’re not lazy. We’re exhausted. From being ignored, judged, and swept like trash.” — Encampment Resident, Portland

“I sleep with one eye open. Not because of crime. Because of cops.” — Disabled Veteran, Phoenix

“I’m 16. I go to school. I do homework in a shelter. I still dream of college.” — Teen Survivor, New York

“Homelessness is not the result of not having a house. It’s a lack of a soul in a body.” — Goitsemang Mvula

“Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that could be someone’s father or someone’s mother. They have a story.” — Syesha Mercado

“Don’t try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.” — Daniel Quinn

“The biggest misconception is that we got ourselves in this mess. I urge you—make a friend at a local mission. You’ll see how wrong that is.” — Ron Hall

Closing Manifesto

Helfire burns to illuminate. We do not beg for inclusion. We demand reckoning.

To every policymaker: Your budget is a weapon. Your silence is complicity. Your rhetoric is a mask for violence.

To every vacant home: You are a tomb. A monument to what could have been. A refusal.

To every unhoused soul: You are sacred. You are not invisible. You are not disposable. You are the archive. You are the resistance.

Let this dispatch be a flare.

Let it glitch across every screen
Let it echo in every city council chamber
Let it be read aloud in every encampment
Let it be carved into the walls of every vacant building

Housing is not a privilege. It is breath.
And breath is not negotiable.

Filed from Salem, Oregon · Encryption Level: Severe

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