Portland teen creates app to help homeless community

[@mattski1979]

That girl's awesome. Great work. Thank you young lady.

[@donnabaldwin4544]

Claire is a beautiful person, whose light, love, care and concern for others shines brightly. Thank you 🙏 ❤

[@devenowens5520]

This is absolutely embarrassing. Props to the student for doing the work the state should have done on day one of the iPhones original release. Unbelievable.

[@Rosarium2007]

Very few people had iPhones when they first came out and those that did were not hurting for money. But yeah some coordinated app or a website should have already existed. TBH, Street Roots prints a resource guidebook once every six months, and has for many years.

[@Azazel2024]

I've never been able to afford 0ne . Im 58 ..stfu dude

[@Just-do-it-zr]

I hope she gets compensated ! Give her a college ,credit or something!

[@glendyfolwick7362]

That is so amazing! Awesome job!

[@Ms.LisaDawn]

Angel!❤

[@Scroll_Lock]

Does it send them to a bus station and provide a ticket back to San Francisco?

[@nancyd3831]

Why is this the first time we've heard about it?

[@DaveMelby]

It's funny how it takes a high school student to come up with the idea, but politicians? Barely any good solutions from them.

[@Just-do-it-zr]

I lot of low income are given/ provided small flip cellphones, etc! The program also provides WiFi with limited access of course. Phones have been previously used by government agencies, mostly.

[@rahulbosebose1]

Kudos to the girl.. but something tells me a concierge service for homeless doesnt solve the problem.

[@JeremyMcBane]

Wait until she finds out they don't want help

[@therichestyoutubechannel6754]

Good job. But it doesn't fix homeless problems. Anyone can look up resources.

[@TheWriterNW]

Smart kid... but not so much on the common sense side of things. Homeless people generally don't have phones or tablets.

[@8thVigil]

You'd be surprised nowadays. The homeless people of today are not the homeless people of 20 years ago. You can have a job and still be homeless. You can have a phone and still be homeless. You can have a car and still be homeless.

[@bethanyvladic3311]

I think this is for people around the homeless. I know I talk to homeless people and they ask for help, so this would help me help them

[@TheWriterNW]

​@@bethanyvladic3311 Then I stand corrected!

[@3namechangezalowdevry90day7]

They do if they're provided with one. Parolees and people with extremely low incomes on govt. benefits usually qualify.

[@nbooky]

Great story.

[@artilna9894]

My issue with this is do homeless have phone service?

[@Rosarium2007]

Some do. Often prepaid. Libraries and some other places have free wi-fi, so even if someone’s phone doesn’t have cellular service, the app would still be usable over wi-fi.

[@lisatune4797]

Yes, great effort and brilliant idea, but homeless folk don’t have smartphones 🥴

[@lisatune4797]

⁠yeah, but most people with no home or income do not have smartphones… like that’s low on the list of survival

[@The_Black_Knight]

They steal phones.

[@lisatune4797]

@@The_Black_Knight haha

[@cynthiaking4437]

Beautiful young woman, inside, and out!

[@The_Black_Knight]

Here is a simple riddle..How do homeless addicts afford smart phones? Not many visit public libraries. The answer is they DO NOT. Good intent, bad judgement.

[@borshardsd]

So these people have lost their homes during unfathomable hard times AND managed to keep the ridiculous verizon contracts paid up? Cheers to the kid but who figured out how to provide the homeless with free smartphones and service? Free wifi maybe for a few homeless who are geographically lucky. But most homeless having access to free wifi os a stretch.

[@3namechangezalowdevry90day7]

They can walk to it . Library, coffee house, plasma center

[@borshardsd]

@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 i will trust your claim that all homeless own a device to use this app and have wifi within walking distance. I doubted it but happy to be wrong.

[@3namechangezalowdevry90day7]

@@borshardsd It takes my reply

[@3namechangezalowdevry90day7]

@@borshardsd Those that are too far out of the city to walk to wifi are too far outside the city to get to the services anyway. Those who have a phone will benefit.

[@3namechangezalowdevry90day7]

@borshardsd Those that are too far out of the city to walk to wifi are too far outside the city to get to the services anyway. Those who have a phone will benefit.

[@Azazel2024]

Homless people have cell phone / internet service..how super naive

[@zooropa84]

It's also a method for people who do have access to the app to actively help. It really is a brilliant effort for such a young person to provide.

[@andretokayuk8100]

The Jesuits are back... run!