By Julie Wood Last Friday, my friend that calls herself "homeless by choice," sat with me in my living room and in a brief moment of getting in touch with her emotions, she began sobbing.  She was sobbing as she was telling me of another friend of hers from the street that was just murdered.  This is #3 this year.    This one was very young....one of the street children....   One of the 3 was beaten and left for dead behind a dumpster.   This one was thrown off a bridge by 2

My neighborhood on 22nd Ave By Julie Wood | Executive Director, Just Initiative (written December 2016) When I moved to 22 nd Avenue in Ybor in January of 2011, it was like moving into a different country.  I have been learning new customs, coming to understand different paradigms of the world, learning the very complicated systems that poor people have to navigate and it literally feels like I have been learning a new language.  Even though I am about 20 minutes from the ga