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From the ❤️: “good trouble” imagery, hot in the city. Jay is 50 years old and has been on-and-off homeless for more than 20 years. For the past month he has been living at Safe Ground, a city tent facility intended to be a short-term solution for 110 unsheltered people. Jay told me that he hopes to get into housing soon. It was early morning, warm and humid. Jay was bicycling to an appointment some seven miles from Safe Ground. You can see that Jay, even early in the day, had a glean of sweat covering his body. Sacramento’s high temperature for the day was 107 degrees. For Jay and many of our homeless neighbors, the bicycle is their primary mode of transportation. It is also a lifeline. A bike can get a homeless person to a job, the store, a shelter, Loaves & Fishes or Show Up for a hot breakfast or lunch, showers and bathrooms. Bicycling beats walking and It expands the travel area. Extreme heat can pose serious health risks to people experiencing homelessness, especially those with pre-existing heart, lung or mental health conditions. Hot days can lead people to suffer from dehydration, heat exhaustion, and in some cases, heat stroke. A growing body of evidence suggests that days of high temperatures may negatively affect our mental health. Ryan “Pawn” Rhodes’ @pawnpaint mural at 5th and Broadway is huge, covering two sides of the ABC building. A section of Pawn’s mural, a patch of urban jungle, served as a backdrop for these images. Thanks again Pawn. For our homeless neighbors there is no escaping the dawg days of summer. Everyone has a name. Everyone has a story. Everybody counts or nobody counts. “Sooner or later we all discover that kindness is the only strength there is,” Father Greg Boyle. #mercypedalers #loavesfishes #encounterchurch_sacramento #showupsac #sacramento #California #photojournalism #streetphotography #streetlife #kindness #survival #homeless #gratitude #socialjustice #poverty #streetportrait #environment #compassion #hope #love #hunger #hardtimes #justice #mercy #916 #pawnpaint #hot #heat