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... the county with more than 150 sleeping on the streets. Christine Wade and her six children, with one on the way, have been struggling with homelessness for three years. The family moved into the camp the morning it opened. Christine Wade: It was a beautiful moment because being out there ...
... a broader policy plan surrounding veterans and the military that Abbott is rolling out early in his re-election campaign. It includes plans to reduce homelessness among veterans and more access to mental health services. In 2015, the relatively obscure Texas State Guard received national attention after Abbott drew ridicule ...
... Forum, The Duke Endowment and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and is a director of Public Radio International and the National Association to End Homelessness. She is a former member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a former director of the National Museum of American History and a ...
... afford it. Joseph Pinion, outreach chair for the New York Young Republicans and chairman of the Conservative Color Coalition, said the second leading cause of homelessness for families, in places like Colorado, is the inability to pay energy and utility bills. So with new technologies and advancing systems, wind energy ...
... case occurred at the end of November.) The outbreak may be bringing much-needed attention to such grim realities. “This is a warning shot that homelessness is something we can’t ignore,” said Dr. Jeffrey Norris, the medical director for a health center embedded within Father Joe’s Villages, a ...
... The poems for the grid span the city. Some are about home, memories of growing up in the affluent Blue Ridge neighborhood. Others are about homelessness, the cold concrete of a Seattle underpass. There are poems left in their native tongues, Spanish, Arabic. The writers run from well-established poets ...
nial homelessness count. California has long had a problem with homelessness. But what's catching officials by surprise is where exactly that population is booming. Counties along the state’s Western border -- rural, blue-collar communities where Californians have often sought refuge from the tech boom and the crippling cost ...
Tiny houses have become trendy in recent years, as people trade in traditional consumer lifestyles for a simpler option -- a living space that’s no more than 400 square feet. But in Detroit, these diminutive dwellings have a lofty goal: giving homeless and low-income people a chance at homeownership. Jeffrey Brown reports.
Sheri Crider wants to know why Americans want new and shiny things -- and what they do with the rest.
At McInnis House in Boston, one of around 80 medical respite facilitates for homeless individuals in the U.S., a writing group provide patients with something less tangible than medical care.
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