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    Change.org: End Homelessness

  • Houston Metro to Homeless: Stay Off Our Trains!

    Shannon Moriarty
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:03 pm
    Is Houston creating a public transportation caste system? Yesterday, at a public hearing in Housing, Metro Vice President Todd Mason made it abundantly clear that homeless people in Houston should take the bus rather than the area's light rail system. Hair Balls, the Houston Press Blog, transcribed the banter between Mason and Anthony Love, president of the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston: Mason: The bus transit system provides more connectivity for the homeless...Metro is not in the business of attempting to put the homeless on the train. That's the signature service downtown. Love: Is…

  • Jobless Rates Soar to 10.2 Percent

    Shannon Moriarty
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:41 am
    The number one cause of homelessness has gotten worse, according to October unemployment numbers. For the first time since 1983, the jobless rate in the U.S. has reached the double-digits. Although experts claim that the recession has ended, the trickle-down effects of our economic woes are far from over. As more Americans lose their jobs, they will come closer to losing their homes. Many of the jobs shed over the past several months are in industries that tend to be lower-paying, such as service, manufacturing, retail, and construction. In other words, job losses are affecting those who were…

  • Real Story: Meet Pam

    Mark Horvath
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:41 pm
    I met Pam while passing through Cleveland, Ohio. She is mother and a grandmother who never thought she would become homeless. Many people think that if a person has close family members, they can just go live with family when all else fails. But for Pam and many others, it's just not that simple. Pam wished for a home; I hope she finds it. Pam from InvisiblePeople.tv on Vimeo.

  • Homeless Web Trends That Need to Stop

    Shannon Moriarty
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    The marginalization of people has perpetuated society and nestled its way onto the web. Twitter, blogs, and YouTube can be an excellent forum for confronting issues of poverty and homelessness. But they can also breed bad ideas, stereotypes, trends that hinder our progress towards combatting homelessness in America. Here are three ugly web trends that need to stop. 1. "Homeless" as a derogatory term on Twitter Search "homeless" on Twitter. I just did, and here's what I found (yes, I'm calling this person out): @hannahhhp yep i definitely look homeless today." Ignorant, right? This disparaging…

  • First Apartment After 45 Years Homeless

    Shannon Moriarty
    4 Nov 2009 | 2:53 pm
    Steve Sacre has been homeless for 45 years. His homeless stint included time in the Army, in prison, on couches, and on the streets. He learned early on how to hide his belongings so they're not stolen and how to watch his back so he's not hurt. But today, he can finally enjoy safety, security, permanence. Today he is living in his first real home. Sacre's moving story appeared today in the Democrat Herald. Like many Vietnam-era veterans, his downward spiral began after he began using drugs to survive the horrors of the war. He came home - an addict - and became involved in burglary to fuel…
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    InvisiblePeople.tv

  • Pam

    invisiblepeople
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:51 pm
    I met Pam while passing through Cleveland, Ohio. She is mother and a grandmother who never thought she would become homeless. Many people think that if a person has close family members, they can just go live with family when all else fails. But for Pam and many others, it’s just not that simple. Pam wished for a home; I hope she finds it.

  • Ann Marie

    invisiblepeople
    26 Oct 2009 | 10:04 am
    I’d like to say that I found Ann Marie in Chicago, but the truth is that she found me. Ann Marie uses social media to escape from her world and connect with others. When I arrived in the Windy City I received a tweet from @padschicago and the next day we arranged to meet in a train station. Ann Marie is not the first person experiencing homelessness to find me via social media. As the face of homelessness changes, and social media continues to expand, I believe we will see many other people without homes on twitter, blogs, and Facebook. Service providers should pay attention to this…

  • Donald

    invisiblepeople
    23 Oct 2009 | 11:05 pm
    When we talk about homelessness as a policy issue, we often distinguish between treating the symptoms versus addressing the root causes. This is the sames lens through which Donald views his own situation. Donald is living without a home in New York City. He says it’s easy to find food and places to stay, but finding help in treating his larger issues has proven to be much more difficult. Right now, Donald says his biggest problem is that he doesn’t have any form of identification. When you’re living on the streets, he said, it’s nearly impossible to get the help you need…

  • Yubal

    invisiblepeople
    23 Oct 2009 | 8:59 am
    I met Yubal in New York City. He is originally from Mexico and traveling up to Canada to try and find his way out of homelessness.

  • Joni

    invisiblepeople
    15 Oct 2009 | 9:18 am
    At first glance I did not know Joni was homeless. Little did I know, she spent the previous night sleeping on a bench in Times Square. This is where I noticed her trying to steal a cup of coffee; she was caught, and my heart broke for her. Many people think that homeless people just want money for drugs. But Joni said that’s not always the case. She said she needs money to be able to eat and survive. Joni says homelessness is terrible, that there are far too many people out here and that somebody has to do something about it. I hope her story compels you to do something.
 
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    Homelessness on The Huffington Post

  • Denver Youth Shelter Aims to Prevent Adult Homelessness

    The Huffington Post News Team
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:57 am
    With the rise in youth homelessness, it is more important than ever that shelters and resources are available to take in runaways and kids displaced by rough family situations. Urban Peak, the only licensed youth shelter in Denver, is making it possible for young adults like Eric Wilson, 20, to finish their GEDs. The Denver Post reports: The shelter's mission starts with the basics -- providing warmth, safety and food for homeless, runaway, at-risk youths, ages 14 to 24 -- and extends to job and education assistance. From providing hats, gloves and simple hygiene to GED preparation and job…

  • Too Poor For Insurance, Too Rich For Free Help

    The Huffington Post News Team
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:21 am
    As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Bryan Rupp reports for Southeast Texas's KBMT that Stacy Campbell has liver cancer. He's unemployed and too poor to buy his own health insurance -- but he's too rich for free help. Campbell's wife, Janel, makes too much money for the family to qualify for the county-sponsored indigent health plan, reported KBMT. "You can't own a vehicle and you can't make over $250 a month to qualify for help" said Janel. Officials in Orange County, Texas, only provide healthcare to…

  • Homeless Singer Makes Broadway Comeback

    The Huffington Post News Team
    5 Nov 2009 | 7:29 am
    Have you ever done a double-take of a street performer or homeless person on your way to work? CBS News reported that last year, New York City police officer David Taylor did just that and realized that the woman walking down the empty street on his night shift was an old friend, Broadway star Terri White: "The street can get pretty desolate at night, and I saw her walking down the street, and she noticed me in the car," New York City police officer David Taylor says. Taylor knew White from her old nightclub days. And he knew something was wrong. "She looked frightened and really, really…

  • Evan Hochberg: Why the Loss Leader Approach to Volunteerism is not the Answer

    Evan Hochberg
    5 Nov 2009 | 6:03 am
    I, along with many other civic, philanthropic and corporate leaders, was recently honored to attend the Points of Light Institute's 20th anniversary ceremony at Texas A&M University where President Barack Obama and former President George H. W. Bush spoke. This historic event honored the enormous advances of the service movement launched two decades ago. It also served as a forum to encourage innovative ideas about service as a solution to many of the challenges facing our communities today. It was inspirational and thought-provoking. As I listened to our esteemed speakers, two questions…

  • Homeless For 45 Years, Steve Sacre Now Has A Home

    The Huffington Post News Team
    5 Nov 2009 | 1:04 am
    Most Americans can't imagine being homeless for 45 hours, let alone 45 years. Steve Sacre, however, a Vietnam veteran and former drug addict, was just that. Last week, Sacre finally was able to rent an apartment of his own. As the Democrat Herald reports, Sacre left home at age 17, and spent the majority of his time, when not in a prison cell, sleeping on couches, hiding out in bushes, and scraping for drugs. He spoke Wednesday in Albany at a Community Summit on Homelessness, and discussed his life on the streets and how he was finally able to find a place to call home. He used to rob drug…
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    Pads Chicago's Blog

  • Life is good

    padschicago
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:58 pm
    I’ve been having some great tweeting and text messages today and its hard to break away! I thank you all for the entertainment! LMAO! Gosh, what a great time I’ve had in the recent weeks! Thanks to all my Twitter and RL friends, so much  more has been happening in my life and I really feel that I and my site am more worthwhile! I met @geogeller and @sioksiok who are filming the Twitter documentary in Chicago, and ended up leaving with them that night for the #140conf in LA! What an awesome time that was!!! I connected with so many new people face-to-face–it was like a live…

  • What am I doing?

    padschicago
    22 Oct 2009 | 4:20 pm
    I have just been so busy to trying to get too much done (and no way to finish all I want to do)! It would help if I didn’t live like this–going to homeless shelters, a new one every night of the week, in different towns, needing my feet or other transportation to get there. Some are several miles out! I am lucky and managed to get a ride to tonight’s shelter or else I would be walking 8 miles or so in the rain. I’ve done it plenty of times before, rain or snow, doesn’t matter the weather–its a safe, warm, shelter at the end when I get there. It’s…

  • Long day

    padschicago
    21 Oct 2009 | 4:19 pm
    I admit, I am becoming a Twitter addict. Should I search for an online tweet therapy? I just started using @HootSuite today and I am loving it! So far, I have to definitely recommend it to all Twitter users as a must-have–especially if you are the type of person like me who tends to try and do too much at once! I have been bad about posting in the blog lately and I apologize for that. Yesterday I promised a blog post about why I am homeless and writing it is in progress! Keep watching for it with excited anticipation! Sorry to cut this short today but I have walk to the shelter site…

  • Vote for Me for Open Web Awards!

    padschicago
    21 Oct 2009 | 3:34 pm
    Posted in Awards, links, News, Personal, Website Tagged: homeless, homelessness, Mashable, Open Web Awards, poverty, shelter, shelters, vote, Web

  • Crazed!

    padschicago
    14 Oct 2009 | 11:26 am
    My mind is crazed. I can’t think. I went to the shelter office to turn in a copy of my TB test, and the case”worker” decided he needed to sit down and talk to me about an email and what happened between him, the director, and me a short while back. To remind you in short, it caused me a bad PTSD freakout due to malicious behavior on the director’s part! Since that place now is an emotional trigger for me, I didn’t react nicely to talking to him about it! Then he took his loooooong time to make the copy of my TB test–stopping to talk to other staff about me…
 
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    Google News: Homeless

  • 210 Connect to focus on homeless - Visalia Times-Delta

    7 Nov 2009 | 4:07 am
    210 Connect to focus on homelessVisalia Times-DeltaRecent events surrounding the homeless encampment at the St. Johns River make this a timely discussion. Among the panelists for this forum will be Homelessness resists easy solutionVisalia Times-Deltaall 2 news articles »

  • Community effort provides housing for homeless teens - Daytona Beach News-Journal

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:54 am
    Community effort provides housing for homeless teensDaytona Beach News-JournalBut in New Smyrna Beach, it's a compilation of a community coming together to get homeless teens off the streets or off their friends' couches by renting a and more »

  • Place a homeless man called home - Baltimore Sun

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:23 am
    Place a homeless man called homeBaltimore SunWhen he became homeless, he brought his mattress to the porch of an abandoned house and started doing odd jobs. He visited two nearby shelters for baths and and more »

  • Prairie View gets grant to assist homeless, at risk - Newton Kansan

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:48 pm
    Prairie View gets grant to assist homeless, at riskNewton KansanPrairie View has received $1.66 million from the Kansas Housing Resources Corp. to serve homeless and at-risk families and people in central Kansas. Rapid re-housing for homeless starts MondayThe Wichita EagleTaking aim at homelessnessWashington PostCommission clears way for homelessness-prevention fundsThe Rolla Daily NewsPittsburgh Tribune-Review -Pittsburgh Post Gazette -Examiner.comall 11 news articles »

  • Budget trims lead homeless shelters across Mass. to cut services and beds - Boston Globe

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:36 pm
    Boston GlobeBudget trims lead homeless shelters across Mass. to cut services and bedsBoston Globe(David L. Ryan/ Globe Staff) By David Abel Boston plans to eliminate nearly 20 percent of the beds at the city's largest homeless shelter, the first time it Ann Arbor to provide $159000 for emergency shelter for homelessAnnArbor.comall 2 news articles »
 
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    NPACH

  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness Appoints New Executive Director

    20 Oct 2009 | 9:42 am
    At a meeting on Monday, October 19, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness appointed a new Executive Director. The new ED will be Barbara Poppe, who currently serves as the Executive director of the Community Shelter Board in Columbus, Ohio - an umbrella organization that oversees housing and services programs for homeless persons in Columbus. We welcome Ms. Poppe to her new role, and look forward to working productively with the Council to ensure that federal efforts to end homelessness are properly coordinated. Our views on how to make this happen were laid out in a memo sent to the…

  • NY Times Focuses On Post-Foreclosure Homelessness

    20 Oct 2009 | 9:25 am
    Citing the Foreclosure to Homelessness report released this summer by NPACH and a group of national homelessness advocacy organizations, the New York Times reported yesterday on former homeowners who, after losing their housing due to a foreclosure, are now homeless. The story relates the reality of homelessness today -- that it can often involve staying with friends and family, or living in motels, for both brief and lengthy periods of time. In doing so, it provides support for our view that the HUD definition of homelessness must reflect these living situations. We look forward to HUD's…

  • Cover Homeless Kids - Not Balloon Boy!

    20 Oct 2009 | 9:18 am
    Arianna Huffington writes a great column calling on the media to cover homeless children -- not Balloon Boy!

  • New Family Unification Program NOFA Released. Applications due December 3, 2009

    1 Oct 2009 | 9:57 am
    On Wednesday September 30, 2009, Deputy Secretary Ron Sims of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development invited public housing authorities nationwide to apply for $15 million for new Section 8 vouchers to provide permanent housing and services to families who are separated from their children because of homelessness or inadequate housing. A portion of these FUP vouchers will also be available to ease the transition to adulthood for youth age 18 or older who left foster care after the age of 16 and are at risk of homelessness. Mr. Sims also announced $5 million in funding for 11…

  • New Report Says Mississippi's Post-Katrina Housing Recovery Is "Falling Behind"

    16 Sep 2009 | 12:10 pm
    As the fourth anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and WIlma has come and gone, the Steps Coalition, a group of Mississippi advocates who support efforts to ensure that all victims of the 2005 storms can return to safe, decent, and affordable housing, has issued a new report arguing that the State of Mississippi is not doing enough to provide the necessary post-storm affordable housing. The Coalition also notes that Mississippi's actions are lagging behind those taken in Louisiana. Read the report.
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  • Saddam’s Baghdad Bob Is Not Announcing Homeless Numbers In L.A.

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:10 pm
    Saddam Hussein’s Information Minister is infamous for standing on the streets of Baghdad, while missiles are flying through the air, confidently stating that American troops were not in the city, and were committing suicide by the hundreds at the city’s gates. When in reality, our troops were on the verge of taking the Iraqi capital in 2003. After the announcement of a 38% reduction in homelessness in Los Angeles, the homeless capital of America, during the worst economic downturn since the depression, some stakeholders are mocking this as a blunder. This is not the case. The press…

  • It’s A One, Two Punch: Floundering Foundation Giving and Supposedly Decreasing Homeless Numbers

    5 Nov 2009 | 6:03 pm
    This week, the Chronicle of Philanthropy let us in the nonprofit world know about a report citing that the foundation world is decreasing their giving by 10 percent. Of course, we already figured this out months ago. Charitable giving is down. Just ask the people we have laid off, the employees that haven’t received raises in years, or the staff who are now performing multiple jobs. Thank you, stock market. For decreasing the foundation world’s financial assets by 22 percent. It’s hard enough convincing a foundation to give a portion of their investment proceeds to us. It’s like…

  • Effective Social Investing

    5 Nov 2009 | 3:37 am
    The Alliance for Effective Social Investing is an ambitious effort to develop a framework for evaluating the social value of non-profit organizations across agencies and programs. I was cautiously optimistic about the Alliance for Effective Social Investing when I first wrote about it a year ago, back when they initially formed. I was prompted to check-up on what the group has done in the last year after hearing an interview earlier this week with the group's chairman, Jeff Mason, on the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Philanthropy this Week podcast. Over the last year the Alliance has produced…

  • Social Services Cause Homelessness

    4 Nov 2009 | 5:21 pm
    Social services cause homelessness. It's a bold claim to be sure, probably one worth backing up with some evidence. Don't believe me? I'll prove it. A department of Housing and Urban Development study found that between October 1st, 2007 and September 30th, 2008 the number of people in homeless families increased by 9% throughout the country. Over that same period of time, we invested in social service programs designed to help the homeless. There. Social services cause homelessness. Fact. - View Full Article

  • If Architect Philippe Starck Designed Homeless Housing We Could End Homelessness

    4 Nov 2009 | 2:05 pm
    Australia has it right. They are using high end designer housing to convince homeless people that housing is the answer. (Check out this article from Sydney.) I’ve been told over and over, that there are people on the streets that are “service resistant.” In other words, people who don’t want to enter homeless services because the rules are just too strict. No drinking. No drugs. Strict curfew. Way too many rules, for an independent adult. But if you give them a designer apartment, they can’t say no. Of course. Who would turn down an apartment designed by some architect with a world…
 
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    Chicago Coaliation for the Homeless

  • Austin Wide Parent Network joins CCH in its "Every Child In School Everyday" project

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    6 Nov 2009 | 9:52 am
    The Law Project of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless has been deeply involved in ensuring that preschool-age children experiencing homelessness are not left behind as Illinois rolls out its universal preschool plan known as "Preschool For All." This week, as part of our project with JPMorgan Chase Bank, new CCH Board member, Sharlita Davis and I were guests of the Austin Wide Parent Network ("AWPN") at their Monday night meeting.   AWPN is not only an award-winning environmentally-conscious group but they are great educational activisits working on an Early Learning…

  • Sweet Home Chicago wins support from Ald. Joe Moore

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    2 Nov 2009 | 1:01 pm
    Alderman Joe Moore (49th Ward) publicly pledged to be another co-sponsor of the affordable housing ordinance during Sweet Home Chicago’s monthly meeting, an Oct. 29 event at the Chicago Temple organized by Jane Addams Senior Caucus. More than 220 people were in attendance, mobilized by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) and 11 other community and labor groups that partner on Sweet Home Chicago In a filmed interview, Ald. Moore pledged to co-sponsor the Sweet Home ordinance, which calls for 20% of Chicago’s tax-increment financing (TIF) funds to be devoted to the development…

  • New York Times profiles runaway youth

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    30 Oct 2009 | 11:53 am
    A heartbreaking piece this week in the New York Times (Oct. 26) spoke of circumstances all too familiar to the Law Project staff. The piece, though it specifically profiled youth in Oregon, highlights issues faced by runaway homeless youth nationwide—physical abuse that often prompts youth to leave home, lack of resources once they are out on their own, and the difficulty of staying afloat without identification, finances, or a stable place to sleep at night.  Beth Cunningham, the Law Project’s Youth Futures attorney, works specifically to assist unaccompanied homeless and runaway youth…

  • U.N. Special Rapporteur talks with homeless youth

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    30 Oct 2009 | 8:38 am
    On October 27, the Raquel Rolnik, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, met with youth from the H.E.L.L.O. Homeless Youth Activism Group, co-founded by CCH and The Night Ministry. The youth shared their stories and poetry with Ms. Rolnik before presenting their recommendations for improving access to housing and resources for children and youth in Chicago. Ms. Rolnik was moved by their struggles and made a commitment that their voices would be heard.  Earlier in the day, Ms. Rolnik visited a REST shelter site on the North Side were she learned about the…

  • Forgive me, but I really couldn’t care less about the Balloon Boy.

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    30 Oct 2009 | 8:31 am
    I am, however, human. I was momentarily intrigued last week when 6-year-old Colorado resident Falcon Heene was thought to have been floating around in the wide blue yonder. Sure, this story held its own as a news feature—it had shock value, a ubiquitously eccentric family, and the potential for a happy ending (or, conversely, a sad one—the American public doesn’t really seem to discriminate as long as the bad news is arbitrary, quirky, and far, far away), but once the mystery was solved, the story should have been reduced to nothing. A six-year-old boy was found to be hiding in his…
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    Cleveland Homeless

  • Ohio Serial Killer

    4 Nov 2009 | 1:04 pm
    Photo by Cheryl Harris of the NEOCH Photo ProjectAre We Casting Aside Some Women in Our Cities?As you most likely have read, Cleveland had a serial killer living in the Mt Pleasant neighborhood. I know the victims, and I see them almost everyday. At this point, only one woman has in fact been identified, but we know that they were all African American women. But I can close my eyes and see these women in our shelters in Cleveland. They sometimes have an addiction or a mental health problem or chronic health condition and they always have unstable housing. They "hook up" for short periods of…

  • Homeless Denied Identification

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:02 am
    The Identification Crisis Collaborative*West Side Catholic Center * St. Colman’s Outreach Ministry * Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries- 2100 Lakeside Shelter for Men * NEOCH * Community Women’s Shelter – Mental Health Services * Care Alliance * St. Malachi Center * Project SAVE * The Church* Catholic Charities – Bishop Cosgrove Center and Emergency Services at St. AugustineFiscal Agent: West Side Catholic Center, 3135 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44113, www.helpcleveland.orgNovember 3, 2009PRESS RELEASEHOMELESS DENIED STATE PHOTO ID’S:With No Proof of Residency Homeless Are Not…

  • Good Will Gone Wild

    28 Oct 2009 | 7:36 am
    Local University Students Sleeps OutsideI have never been a big fan of these fund raisers, but apparently Habitat for Humanity supports the concept locally. CWRU students slept outside earlier this month, and had a great night. One of our old interns wrote a letter to the editor complaining about the mixed up message and inappropriate stereotypes. Mike is correct that it is difficult to match the goals of raising dollars with awareness campaigns. There is some debate at the national level about these pizza and box nights. It is not fun to be homeless and it is nearly impossible to realize the…

  • We Need Blankets!!!

    22 Oct 2009 | 10:14 am
    The Shelters Are In Need of Your Help!!The Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Men's Homeless Shelter at 2100 Lakeside is in need of blankets for their residents. The economic downturn has caused them to lose a few of the sources they had supplying their blankets so they have asked for our help. They will take any new or good used blankets in any size. Please consider doing a blanket drive where you work or at your faith congregation for 2100 Lakeside Shelter. Blankets can be dropped off at the shelter on your way to work, at lunch, or on the way home. If you do a blanket drive and can collect…

  • Reply to Shelter Standards Request

    8 Oct 2009 | 11:50 am
    Guidelines vs. RegulationsThe Homeless Congress has secured the endorsement of 20 City Council candidates to pass some kind of regulations of the shelters. The list of council members is regularly updated on the NEOCH website with a link to the proposed legislation as written by the Congress.One interesting note came by fax on October 5, 2009 from current City Councilman Anthony Brancatelli and candidate for Ward 2. While he checked the box in support of the proposal to regulate the shelters, he altered the the form to say that he would work to pass "or support" the regulations. Then at the…
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    Coalition for the Homeless

  • NYC Homeless Shelter Population Reaches All-Time High

    26 Oct 2009 | 8:21 am
    New York City reached a truly sad milestone recently.As the Coalition revealed in an October 13th report based on newly-released City data, the number of homeless children and adults residing each night in municipal shelters exceeded 39,000 people for the first time since modern homelessness began more than 25 years ago. At the same time, more than 10,000 homeless families, with more than 16,500 children, reside in homeless shelters each night -- the first time the number of homeless families bedding down in municipal shelter has ever exceeded 10,000 families.The most alarming data revealed…

  • The Bloomberg Administration’s Misguided New Rules Demanding Shelter Payments from Working-Poor Homeless Families

    14 May 2009 | 10:38 am
    As the New York Times reported this past weekend, the Bloomberg administration has implemented a new policy requiring homeless families with employment income to pay for some of the cost of shelter. If they do not comply with the misguided new rules, the policy states, the City will eject homeless children and families from emergency shelter.Today New York State Assemblymember Keith Wright led a press conference denouncing Mayor Bloomberg’s policy and announcing new legislation that will put a halt to what the Assemblymember described as the “punitive” new rules. Wright, who chairs the…

  • State of the Homeless 2009: How to Reduce Family Homelessness

    27 Apr 2009 | 10:31 am
    Last week Coalition for the Homeless released the tenth annual "State of the Homeless" report, which documented how the economic recession, coupled with the worsening housing affordability crunch, has driven family homelessness in New York City to record levels. An overview of the report can be found here, and the full 41-page report can be downloaded here.This year's report focused on one way the City of New York can actually reduce family homelessness even in the midst of the economic downturn: By reversing a failed, four-year-old Bloomberg administration policy that effectively cuts off…

  • A Rare Glimpse Inside

    12 Mar 2009 | 2:07 pm
    The New York Times has offered New Yorkers a rare look inside one of the dozens of illegal boarding houses increasingly used by the City of New York to shelter homeless adults.This week's "Rooms" photo-essay spotlights an illegally-converted boarding house on Seymour Avenue in the Bronx. This is one of the growing number of illegal boarding houses where the NYC Department of Homeless Services (as well as an addiction treatment program) has placed homeless men, including individuals living with mental illness and other disabilities – even when the City was aware of hazardous and illegal…

  • Bloomberg Administration's Far-Fetched Claims About Street Homelessness

    5 Mar 2009 | 12:10 pm
    Yesterday the New York City Department of Homeless Service released the results of its annual – and annually disputed – HOPE survey of street homelessness, and this year the City's claims were met by extraordinary skepticism. City officials claimed that, despite the worsening economic recession, the number of homeless New Yorkers sleeping on streets or in the subway system had fallen 30 percent from last year. They also claimed that the street homeless population was 47 percent lower than that in 2005.Mary Brosnahan, the Coalition's executive director, responded to the City's claims this…
 
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    Picture the Homeless

  • November 17 -- PTH anniversary gala -- get your tickets now!

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    30 Oct 2009 | 11:03 am
     Picture the Homeless' tenth anniversary gala is November 17 -- just three weeks away!, at Judson Church in Manhattan.  It's going to be a can't-miss community-building and *FUN* night -- celebrating the history and vitality of a decade of homeless activism, honoring the inspirational Jean Rice and Brenda Stokely, and eating and drinking and partying to the sounds of the Welfare Poets and a hot DJ set!* all the details are here, on our blog *  read more

  • Indypendent on NYC homeless today

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    29 Oct 2009 | 2:32 pm
     [An article in the Indypendent by Alex Kane, profiling the situation homeless people face in NYC today, including interviews with PTH members]:http://www.indypendent.org/2009/10/29/homeless-shelters-at-capacityread more

  • Three years after our co-founder's re-burial, a PTH member reflects on our Potter's Field Campaign

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    29 Oct 2009 | 2:08 pm
     As we approach our 10th Anniversary, we recall that Picture the Homeless was co-founded by the inspirational Lewis Haggins Jr., born in 1955. Lewis, who passed away in December 2003, was buried as a John Doe in Potter's Field, Hart Island in February 2004.  In 2005, Picture the Homeless and our faith allies held the first memorial service at Potter's Field.read more

  • Right to the City NYC rally, GRITtv, and other multi-media...

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    29 Oct 2009 | 9:54 am
     PTH's Housing campaign leader Rob Robinson -- a leader in NYC and nationally in the Right to the City alliance we're a part of -- was part of a roundtable on the current economic crisis on Laura Flanders' GRITtv [video here], along with Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine, and leaders of National People's Action and United Food and Commercial Workers union.read more

  • UN Rapporteur round-up: New York Times, other press, and video...

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    27 Oct 2009 | 12:10 pm
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    ChoseFast

  • Down by the riverside

    Cara Michele
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:07 pm
    One night a year or so ago, I was at my church, getting things out of the kitchen for street outreach, and half-listening to the mostly incoherent mutterings of my friend, Al — a homeless schizophrenic. His face this night was wrinkled and troubled, his thoughts jumbled, his eyes unfocused. I finished up what I [...]

  • Pray for P. Unemployed, 2 youn…

    Cara Michele
    5 Nov 2009 | 1:59 pm
    Pray for P. Unemployed, 2 young ones to support. He’s always thinking of others. Now he needs help — hope and a job! God bless my friend.

  • “I’ll always love Jesus but I’…

    Cara Michele
    5 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pm
    “I’ll always love Jesus but I’m glad I no longer work for a church. Most (not all) don’t see reality or allow real honesty” RT @hardlynormal

  • Why I’m happy that Ben Holder’s not blogging

    Cara Michele
    5 Nov 2009 | 11:28 am
    Ben Holder hasn’t been blogging as much recently, and I’m happy about it. Because I know why he’s been away from The Troublemaker. In his own words: “I’m too busy to blog. I’m renovating houses, putting unemployed people to work, and feeding homeless people in my kitchen.”

  • Jesus Manifesto: “the least of…

    Cara Michele
    3 Nov 2009 | 7:54 pm
    Jesus Manifesto: “the least of these my brethren.” http://bit.ly/2XHOSK Wow. Contemplating… Thanks @knightopia
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    The Homeless Guy

  • Crime Reports From The Key Alliance

    13 Oct 2009 | 12:47 pm
    Crime ReportsThe Key Alliance is the website for the Nashville Metro Homelessness Commission. This commission, created by the Mayor of Nashville, is charged with ending chronic homelessness in Nashville Tennessee. They are working towards that goal by creating alternatives to homeless care that are not currently being implemented, but have been proven effective in other cities. The best

  • Sheltering L.A. County's homeless could save taxpayer money, study finds | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

    13 Oct 2009 | 12:33 pm
    Finding permanent housing for Los Angeles County's homeless population rather than allowing them to continue living on the streets could save taxpayer money, according to a study released today by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.The four-year study followed four homeless people while they lived on the streets and later as they found stable housing. Researchers concluded that taxpayers could

  • Project Homeless Connect - Nashville

    5 Oct 2009 | 2:58 pm
    NOTE: There has been a correction to the time and date of this event.The Metropolitan Homelessness Commission in Nashville will once again host Project Homeless Connect. This event will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. December 9, at The Municipal Auditorium.Project Homeless Connect brings together a comprehensive array of services for the homeless at one convenient location. Homeless people

  • Approached By A Panhandler

    4 Oct 2009 | 3:58 pm
    He is dirty, smelly, and intoxicated. And though no one openly acknowledges his presence, he makes it known with his incessant requests for money. It is a scenario that plays out on an endless loop in cities all across America. Yet most people have no idea how to respond.As a self-proclaimed advocate, I field a lot of questions about homelessness. More than any other subject, people want to

  • Winterize Your Homeless Now

    4 Oct 2009 | 1:28 pm
    The autumnal equinox has passed. Days are now shorter, nights are colder, and fall leaves are turning their wonderful seasonal colors. Soon the holidays will be upon us. With our heads full of plans for these coming celebrations, it would be easy for us to forget the more mundane tasks of preparing for winter. Though we would like to put them off, now really is the best time to winterize our
 
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    Homeless Family's Blog

  • Rumor Control Issue Vol:1 Iss:1

    24 Oct 2009 | 7:03 pm
    Rumor #1: Homeless In Jax is gone: Yes, it's 'gone'. Totally. Daggers thrust at certain service providers, others held aloft. Truth be told, the site was the victim of a vicious Denial of Service attack (DoS) two months ago. Persons of interest include global Russian and Indian cottage industry comment link mafia, Jacksonville's "Downtown Vigilante", and unidentified orange shirt wearing homelessophobic minimum wage earners spending too much time babbling with Mr. Butler near his cruiser.Rumor #2: "Jacksonville just doesn't 'Get It'": Yes, at a recent meeting held behind closed doors a person…

  • Florida Times Union Story: ...(efforts) not much help

    7 Oct 2009 | 1:46 pm
    Some say clearing lot used by homeless not much helpBy Drew Dixon. Story updated at 3:42 PM on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

  • Preparing for a long cold winter

    5 Oct 2009 | 7:18 pm
    The earlier the better in most cases. A warm fuzzy gift of an electric blanket...just isnt all that fuzzy when you don't have a place to plug it up!Over the course of the last six months, I had different conversations with confidential sources...trying to make sense of what was said as opposed to what the real deal was. Who could a consumer trust to represent their needs as well as desires for systems to improve...for them to improve and move out of homelessness into self sufficiency.To live and lead productive lives, whether in private or putting back into Jacksonville.What's sad is what's…

  • Gertrude was a table tennis star

    7 Sep 2009 | 9:03 am
    The other day I spotted Gertrude on Facebook. Gertrude isn't her real name, and for all readers know she's fictitious. Take the measurement of a ping pong table in three dimensions and you'd have Gertrude.She was one of those sanctimonious two faced BS artists who never got pegged since she usually produced reports claiming rules were broken. When the $1 million cocaine bust went down, she never got caught, nor during the incident of a man's brains bleeding onto a card table as he died looking at a still full plate of food.Left, back, left, back, for whatever reasons. With Gertrude there's…

  • The invisible’s they still don’t want to talk about

    6 Sep 2009 | 11:01 pm
    Over the last week I've continued to speak to different people after the last few months' tirade of 'Give us money or we will put them out' propaganda. More and more people came forward admitting the lack of respect some service providers have been showing.It's gotten to the point that RUMOR CONTROL is admitting legal investigation by some over the matters of individuals having experienced homelessness having their full identity being made public on the internet by employees of certain services in numerous online social communities.Putting the word out there about homelessness is one thing.
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    Jaime's Big Voice

  • Chances

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:21 pm
    How many chances does one need was the question ? that was the question asked, my automatic reply was as many as it takes but now I'm at home and I'm thinking about the people that will not take the chances given because they figure they are on their way out anyway or to put it another way they have given up and just want to be left alone. If we are truthful we have slightly given up on them too because its too hard and too tiring to do the same thing day after day although we keep on trying. The repeated failure gets to us too and we just go through the motions What can we do to change this?

  • Once again thinking clear

    20 Oct 2009 | 12:56 am
    I'm not the kind of man to give up on things that easy after all the things I've been through in my life I know it makes me who I am. I have not been myself for quite a few months ( I wondered sometimes who I was) It's taken me longer than I thought it would to be just me again but as the saying goes you can't keep a good man down for long and I am back in reasonable health so for the first clear thought of the day. After listening to the party conferences it seems to me that none have said what they are going to do for those that are living in poverty or for that matter the homeless which is…

  • just thinking

    1 Oct 2009 | 5:03 pm
    Thinking of things to say isn’t that hard for me as I have been used to talking my way through things for years especially hiding the fact that I couldn’t read or write but now I can. The thing is none of this would have been possible if people didn’t care. Over the last few months I haven’t been myself but I am now back to my old self but the problem is even though I am back the homeless problem is still here. Poverty is on the increase and the most venerable in our society are still slowly suffering. I was listening to the party conference for labour and liberals. To tell the truth…

  • Revenge of a doughnut

    5 Sep 2009 | 4:33 pm
    It's Monday and I am a fresh baked doughnut. I used to have five friends in a bag. We were the doughnut gang but they have now all been eaten by this monster of a man and it looks as if I am going the same way but I wasn't expecting it to be so quick. Now between you and me. My friends and I will have the last laugh because we have made him slightly obese already and we have become a daily habit because we add jam, sugar, apple, custard, raisins we also come in rings and are sometimes big and fat. we also come nice and crispy plus the fact that if we cooked really good one is not enough.As…

  • 3 Sep 2009 | 2:34 pm

    3 Sep 2009 | 2:34 pm
    Days go by when you actually get to hear good news but most of the time is spent watching and listening to TV and radio and all the bad news from around the world. It does seem that we are very lucky in Britain although there is a certain element in our society intent on violence. If you think of things in other ways. we do have it better than most. Take the in the states for instance if you have no health insurance you are unlikely to get the medical help you need. You can get lost amongst the million or so homeless also If you're living in parts of the third world you are more likely to die…
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    Homeless Man Speaks

  • News from home

    Philip Stern
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:01 am
    PHILIP “Sharon [Tony's sister] put a comment on the blog that she wanted to know what was happening since we hadn’t updated it in a while, which is true. I guess you could call it a slow news day, sort of.” TONY “Well, you can tell her that my ticker’s fine and my lungs are OK but my kidneys are putting up a good  fuss today. And you can tell her I miss her too.” PHILIP “I’ll post it as soon as I get home.” Tagged: absence, heart, kidney, lungs, news, sister, ticker

  • It’s OK

    Philip Stern
    29 Oct 2009 | 7:30 am
    TONY “You’re looking something happy. Did you get lucky or something?” PHILIP “Very funny. Wait until my wife reads this.” TONY “OK. So now I get to ask you for once: ‘What’s up with you with that big smile?’” PHILIP “Ignatieff made a big decision. He’s doing what he’s gotta do.” TONY “You mean the Prime Minister?” PHILIP “Well, he’s not the Prime Minister, not yet,  anyways. But he’s got Peter Donolo on his team now. You know what’s cool? Peter’s a Montrealer, just…

  • Just doing their job

    Philip Stern
    28 Oct 2009 | 12:06 pm
    TONY “You hear about the old guy who got jumped down Ronces earlier?” PHILIP “What happened?” TONY “I don’t know but next thing you know, there’s six cop cars right there. You can say what you want about our cops but they sure can do their job when they need to.” Tagged: cops, home, job, mugging, police, Toronto Police Department

  • It’s our 3rd anniversary

    Philip Stern
    23 Oct 2009 | 1:53 pm
    Our first post. Tagged: anniversary, fireworks

  • The new normal

    Philip Stern
    23 Oct 2009 | 11:09 am
    Tagged: apple, hat
 
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    Union Rescue Mission

  • Men’s Program Celebrates Graduation

    ehennings
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:36 am
    “The King has one more move – God has plans for you!” This was the message that our Men’s Christian Life Discipleship Program graduates were encouraged by as they celebrated graduation on Sunday, November 1st.  Albert Tate, Intergenerational Pastor of Lake Avenue Church, spoke to 30 graduates and a full Chapel (it was standing room only!).  He spoke about David, who was considered small and unimportant to most, but not to God.  God had a plan for his life, just like he has a plan for each and every one of us.  He also told a story about two friends visiting a…

  • Happy Thanksgiving from Union Rescue Mission

    ehennings
    5 Nov 2009 | 12:09 pm
    I guess you could say we take giving thanks pretty seriously here at Union Rescue Mission. Our guests are thankful to be off the street and to have a safe place to sleep at night. The men and women enrolled in one of our life transformation programs are thankful for the opportunity to rebuild their lives with the help of loving case managers and chaplains dedicated to helping them succeed. Our growing population of families who are experiencing homelessness for the first time are thankful that we have stepped up to meet the needs of whole families and single dads with kids. Last but not…

  • Youth Coordinator

    ehennings
    4 Nov 2009 | 8:24 am
    Union Rescue Mission (URM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the poor and homeless. Established in 1891, URM is one of the largest rescue missions of its kind in the United States and the oldest in Los Angeles. We provide a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing, medical and dental care, recovery programs, transitional housing, legal assistance, education, counseling, and job training to needy men, women, children, and families. RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:  Essential functions of the job are denoted by…

  • Youth Assistant

    ehennings
    4 Nov 2009 | 8:23 am
    Union Rescue Mission (URM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the poor and homeless. Established in 1891, URM is one of the largest rescue missions of its kind in the United States and the oldest in Los Angeles. We provide a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing, medical and dental care, recovery programs, transitional housing, legal assistance, education, counseling, and job training to needy men, women, children, and families. Job Description Must enjoy ministry related environment. To assist the…

  • A Long Way From Home: Family Homeless In Los Angeles

    Rev. Andy
    2 Nov 2009 | 11:04 am
    The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority on October 28th released its 2009 Homeless Count.  There was remarkable news – the total number of persons counted in this latest survey decreased by 38% compared to the total number of homeless persons counted in 2007.    Among the 48,053 homeless individuals in Los Angeles County Continuum of Care, the survey identifies 4,885 individuals in 1,840 homeless families in our community, reflecting a stunning 70% drop in homelessness among families with children during the last two years.  As agencies that advocate for and provide housing and…
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    Homeless Tales

  • History of Revolution 101

    MetisRebel
    4 Nov 2009 | 5:43 pm
    There are only two solutions I've ever figured out to alleviate the above conditions. One is a "movement" such as the "Bolivian Water Revolt" where the common folk rise up and simply refuse to participate in the abominations perpetrated by government. It also presupposes that the government will eventually accede to popular demands. The second is the revolution.

  • The Rock and The Mountain

    Jesse
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:49 pm
    The reason people remain oppressed is because they remain powerless. Oppression is maintained by corrupting the consciousness of a people. Oppression ends when the people reclaim their minds and souls. That is not the precondition to liberation it is the definition of liberation. Oppressed peoples feel profound feelings of hatred, rage, despair, terror, guilt, envy, hopelessness and grief. These feelings [...]

  • Americans Getting Smarter?

    MetisRebel
    29 Oct 2009 | 5:06 pm
    We really did despair for you. Yet, many Americans I'd meet online were bright, knew full well they were being 'had' and yet, their "voices" were nowhere to be found on the major media including CNN.

  • The Jackets We Wear

    Jesse
    26 Oct 2009 | 6:44 pm
    What is the nature of reality? What is the nature of your present time situation? What are the fundamental dynamics in any given situation? These may seem academic questions but I believe they are critical. I believe we are engaged in these questions here at HT and elsewhere in our lives. Answering these questions is difficult. It is difficult for many [...]

  • You Never Know Who’ll Walk Through That Door…

    Steve
    21 Oct 2009 | 3:34 am
    I’m blasting around in my office yesterday, busier than a one-armed paperhanger and I call in my next “intake.”  A mild mannered man in a relatively nice suit enters my office and we sit down to talk.  I’m looking through his paperwork when I realize I’ve seen his name before. In fact, I’ve seen his name [...]
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    disPlacement

  • News: St Louis City Employees Trash Homeless Possessions

    6 Nov 2009 | 11:51 am
    Caption: Clint Smith, 38, was only able to retrieve his umbrella before being stopped by a park ranger as he arrived in Interco Plaza on his bicycle to find sanitation workers clearing the makeshift living quarters of homeless people from the park. The small plaza is at the intersection of Tucker Boulevard and Martin Luther King Drive. Photo courtesy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:About 10 a.m. Thursday, journalists watched as the rangers and parks workers ignored pleading from the homeless and their advocates and threw their belongings into a parks department…

  • Policy Review: Shinseki on Homeless Vets

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    I just love that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. Not only did he become famous for quietly contradicting Earth Invader Rumsfield's Iraqi re-colonization plans, he's now making good on his plans to end homelessness among veterans. Aside: who else but a soldier would begin a stuffy speech about veteran homelessness with the the hardass line "My name is Shinseki and I am here to end veteran homelessness"?Yowza. I think we just found a Robocop for the anti-homelessness movement.

  • Stats: 1 in 50 American Children will Experience Homelessness

    2 May 2009 | 2:11 pm
    The final push to close out another winter emergency season at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless kept me from anything more than micro-blogging in the last couple months.It was a wonderful year: surprisingly mild weather with average service requests since November's rush. I had a great time doing outreach for the first time in town, worked with an incredible staff and some memorable, inspiring clients. But it did keep me from disPlacement.Mea culpa.The National Center on Family Homelessness announced this spring that 1 in 50 children in America will experience homelessness.Here's an…

  • Blogs in Review: Feministing.com

    12 Feb 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Always incisive, always interesting, Feministing contributor Ann Friedman adds some points to the discussion about how the current crisis reveals assumptions about welfare and poverty in today's post:"It's undeniable that the tanking economy is once again changing the face of who needs assistance to get by. Given the way people on public-assistance programs have been vilified, it will be interesting to see whether public perception actually does shift as demographics change." This is exactly the opportunity of the crisis, I think. It broadens and, potentially, destigmatizes the experience of…

  • Provider Care: Burnout and How to Kill It

    21 Jan 2009 | 6:00 am
    This post is the first in a series written for Shannon Moriarty's awesome End Homelessness blog on Change.org.Take note: if you work with the homeless, burnout is coming for you. Maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow, but- you know the rest. It’s an occupational hazard.Yesterday, a client asked me a question on the bus and I answered her with all the kindness of a badger, “I’m not working now,” told her to catch me at the shelter. She looked hurt and walked away. My regret was immediate.What gives? I was really only pretending to read the paper, anyway. I like helping people and usually…
 
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    Portland Rescue Mission

  • Watch KOIN Local 6 - and Give Hope!

    4 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    Help KOIN Local 6 and Portland Rescue Mission feed and care for hurting and homeless men, women and children right here in Portland.Tune in to our GIVE HOPE telethon! WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 44:00 PM - 5:00 PM, "Keep It Local" Broadcast7:30 PM - 8:00 PM, "GIVE HOPE" program featuring inspiring stories of courage from homeless men and womenTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 55:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Tune in throughout the day for telethon updates and the latest gifts available for your donationWe'll be "live tweeting" the event! Follow us on Twitter or visit our telethon webpage where you'll be able to:-- chime in with…

  • Christmas Wish List

    2 Nov 2009 | 10:32 am
    For most of the men, women and children in our residential recovery program, the holidays don't hold happy memories. Many do not have the finances to purchase Christmas gifts for the people they love.With your help, this Christmas will be different. They'll know someone remembers them and cares. You can help by providing a gift from our Christmas Wish List.1. To start shopping, log in or register. 2. Search for gift items for a woman, boy or girl. 3. Add items to your Shopping List. 4. Purchase items at a store. (New and unused items only, please.) 5. Mark each item with the Gift ID indicated…

  • Do You Know These Three Types of Homeless People?

    16 Oct 2009 | 10:29 am
    Most of us think of homelessness as a man holding a cardboard sign on the street corner. But up to 50% of homeless men, women and children are really never seen.What do you know about these three categories of homeless people?PanhandlersStreet HomelessHidden HomelessLearn more now through this half-hour broadcast that aired October 12, 2009.Get the Google Audio Widget widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)Click here for mp3 audio download (24 MB).

  • 100 Coats -- Just In Time

    14 Oct 2009 | 9:32 am
    A generous donation from Alsco, American Industrial last week provides 100 coats and sleeping bags for hurting people in need of warmth. The donation comes just in time as cold, rainy weather begins in Portland."We know there are many hurting people in Portland right now," says, Bill Edwards, Service Manager at Alsco, "We’re donating these sleeping bags and jackets in hopes of keeping our fellow citizens a little warmer this winter.""Life on the streets is difficult already, the near-freezing temperatures each night will take a heavy toll on the health of homeless men and women," says Eric…

  • We've Moved!

    13 Oct 2009 | 9:34 am
    The Administration Office of Portland Rescue Mission is now located at:1507 NE 122nd Ave (Map It)Portland, OR 97230Our phone number is still 503-MISSION (647-7466).View Portland Rescue Mission in a larger map
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    Stone Soup Station

  • "I was just absolutely devastated to hear what happened this morning,"

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:10 am
    Well, at least Mr. Siedhoff came out with an apology; it's more than most folks get when their camps are destroyed....   Digg Yahoo! Del.icio.us Facebook Reddit Drudge Google Fark Stumble It! St. Louis Park Rangers get tough on homelessNovember 5, 2009 - Clint Smith, 38, was only able to retrieve his umbrella before being stopped by a park ranger as he arrived in Interco Plaza on his bicycle to find sanitation workers clearing the makeshift living quarters of homeless people from the park. The small plaza is at the intersection of Tucker Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

  • "No one who has served this nation as veterans should ever be living on the streets,"

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:35 am
    We are going to see a huge number of vets experiencing homelessness when Jane and Johnnie comes marching home from the Bush bash. At present, they will easily overwhelm what little we can offer them; this help is greatly needed. Let's hope politics don't get in the way - again - of actually assisting those who laid their lives on the line for us...Shinseki cites plight, plan to help homeless veterans By Ed O'Keefe and Garance Franke-Ruta Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 4, 2009  The Department of Veterans Affairs laid out Tuesday an ambitious five-year goal of…

  • I want to know why someone would shoot a person that was laying there asleep, not bothering nobody

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:10 am
    As clueless as everyone else about what happened to this guy.  Was hoping there would have been a break in the case by now, but so far, nothing.... Homeless Man Killed; Family Begs For AnswersInvestigators Question Homeless For CluesReported By Deanna Lambert POSTED: 4:51 pm CST November 4, 2009UPDATED: 7:06 pm CST November 4, 2009 NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- There are more questions than answers almost two days after a homeless man was found slain in downtown Nashville on a park bench. Related: Images | Video: Slain Homeless Man's Sister Remembers Educated Man | Video | Video Police are trying…

  • Project Homeless Connect Volunteers Needed

    5 Nov 2009 | 3:50 am
    The 2nd annual Project Homeless Connect will be upon us soon and volunteers are desperately needed to staff and assist at the event!  Please, if you can help, contact folks down at the Key Alliance, they need all the help they can get! Volunteers needed to help homelessDAVIDSON COUNTY A one-day, one-stop event to provide homeless families and individuals access to a wide range of services — from haircuts to legal help — needs lots of volunteers to help, sponsors say. The event, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 9, is called Project Homeless Connect and will be at the Municipal Auditorium, 417…

  • Velvet Thunder In Guarded Condition at Summit Hospital

    5 Nov 2009 | 3:49 am
    Anyone who has spent time in downtown Nashville has almost certainly heard The High Priest of 2nd Avenue singing the blues in front of the Spagetti Factory.  Velvet is currently in "guarded" condition at Summit Hospital here in Nashville, suffering from a host of illnesses and infections.  I visited him yesterday and he was sedated, on a ventilator and looked like he'd lost at least 100 pounds as a result of his illnesses. Velvet's health was deteriorating back when he was living in his van and playing late nights on 2nd ave - "because that's when the folks with money spend it on…
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  • Do1Thing Young Faces of Homelessness Exhibit Debuts at Photo Expo Plus in New York City

    More than 27,000 people viewed the "Do1Thing Young Faces of Homeless" photographic exhibit this past weekend at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Curated by Debra Weiss, the show was sponsored by Canon Professional Images and printed by Lieberman Photographic Labs. Our sincere thanks to everyone who everyone ...

  • Debra Weiss Curates Do1Thing Gallery Show at PhotoPlus Expo 2009 in NYC

    Do1Thing is proud to announce that Creative Consultant Debra Weiss is curating the Do1Thing "Young Faces of Homelessness" Gallery Show at PhotoPlus Expo 2009 in NYC October 22-24, 2009. Debra has been an agent for some of the top names in the business, a consultant for Black Book and did a ...

  • ‘Lulu’s Story’ a Powerful Look at Teenage Homelessness – Photography by Alex Daley-Clark

    We've all heard the phrase "putting a face on homelessness" countless times. The idea is simple: provide some flesh and blood to let the rest of us grasp the larger problems of poverty. It would be so easy to dismiss it as another tired cliche if it weren't powerfully truthful. Consider ...

  • Do1Thing Featured in the Portland Press Herald

    We've all heard the phrase "putting a face on homelessness" countless times. The idea is a simple one: show some flesh and blood to allow the rest of us to grasp the larger problems of poverty. It'd be so easy to dismiss as another tired cliche if it weren't powerfully truthful. ...

  • Join Us in MAINE for a Do1Thing Gallery Event

    Do1Thing is proud to announce an evening at The SALT Institute for Documentary Studies showcasing the "Young Faces of Homelessness" photographic exhibit. We'd love for everyone in the are to join us for the event. Meet Founder Najlah Feanny Hicks and Do1Thing Director of Photography Alexandra Daley-Clark along with homeless teen Lulu ...
 
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  • The History of My Homelessness, Part 3

    The Car Camper
    14 Oct 2009 | 3:49 pm
    So now begins my true homelessness, prior to this I’d been couch surfing, a term which means just what it sounds like, going from one friend’s home to another, living on their couch or spare bed, etc. To say the least, I was nervous. Scared nearly out of my wits is more like it. The view from my first car camp site at St. Vincent De Paul I headed down to St. Vincent De Paul, a shelter I knew about and hoped was still there. I’d learned about it back in the early 90’s, 91, I think when I’d returned to the US from Mexico after having had my pocket picked. Id been…

  • The History Of My Homelessness, Part Two

    The Car Camper
    12 Oct 2009 | 9:26 am
    Having Arrived in San Diego and staying with a friend for the first few days, I took advantage of the time to look for places to work and live. By work in this case, aI meant places with tables, chairs, coffee and wifi. The obvious first choice was to find some Starbucks. I found one near where I was staying, and in there, I had some trouble since Starbucks only allows a couple of hours per session. This would not work for me. Directly across from this location though, I saw another coffee shop. Now Starbucks does this, locates across from a successful coffee shop in order to steal their…

  • Downtown Hollywood FL

    The Car Camper
    9 Oct 2009 | 5:54 pm
    Here is a video of a location in Downtown Hollywood, FL. Over the next weeks, I will be shooting a lot of images and videos myself from this location, in the meantime, enjoy this one for a quick look at the area i’m in.  

  • The History of My Homelessness

    The Car Camper
    9 Oct 2009 | 10:26 am
    An evening at front of my home in portlandWhen I was laid off without warning from the company I worked for on wednesday before Thanksgiving, I had just spent the last of my savings on a wheelchair and four-wheeled walker, a combination of items costing just under $2000.00. I had some money left in checking and had a pay day coming, so I was not too concerned, as I had a job, even though it was a very bad paying one, $21/hr for someone more used to six figures, but there is little work in my field in Portland and I was glad to get it. But then, when I went in to work and was immediately…

  • If You Love Me, Let Me Know

    The Car Camper
    6 Oct 2009 | 11:28 am
    Humorous title aside, this post is a plea to the various readers of my blogs here. And there are a lot of you, I watch you come and go via my logs. What I don’t see is many of you communicating with me. This makes it very hard to keep on writing posts here, when I never hear back from any of you as to what you think of my posts. Please comment. Please use my Forum. I’ve had one question posted to my forum and that’s been itl Other than a troll who came by to post a series of nasty and profaine comments for about a month, there’s been no commenting by anyone in a long…
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  • Vote for the 13th juror!

    Jacqueline Dowd
    4 Nov 2009 | 11:30 am

  • A twisted tale of government getting in its own way

    Jacqueline Dowd
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:38 am
    To see a twisted tale of government getting in its own way, look no further than Palm Beach County's efforts to turn $7.5 million in federal stimulus money into a homeless center.Federal restrictions on the Neighborhood Stabilization Program grant are so confining as to make success nearly impossible.West Palm Beach has a surplus building, a former medical office complex well situated to serve the homeless. The city, based on an appraisal, agreed to sell it to the county for $1.48 million. But the county conducted two additional appraisals that put the price at $2 million. The federal…

  • Holidays soup up the debate about feeding Gainesville's homeless

    Jacqueline Dowd
    1 Nov 2009 | 5:34 am
    Public outcry against city laws limiting how many destitute people can be served at any one location is reverberating in Gainesville as the city's largest meal provider on Thanksgiving and Christmas grapples with a 130-meal limit.Kent Vann, executive director of the St. Francis House homeless shelter and soup kitchen, said his agency historically has fed 400 to 500 people each holiday meal.Holiday meals for the needy are a 25-year tradition at St. Francis House, with hundreds gathering at the downtown homeless shelter and soup kitchen for Thanksgiving and Christmas.This year, however, a new…

  • Did fraternity cultivate "an environment of animosity towards homeless"?

    Jacqueline Dowd
    31 Oct 2009 | 4:51 am
    A jury will decide whether an Oregon State University fraternity is responsible for the shooting of a homeless man.One of its members, Josh Grimes, shot Dennis Sanderson in the leg in October 2006 with a .22-caliber rifle, aiming from a window of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house. Grimes pleaded guilty and served a sentence of 150 days in jail and three years' probation for the shooting.Sanderson's attorney, Mark McDougal argued a "nasty dynamic" emerged among the members of the OSU chapter, which led to "an environment of animosity towards homeless." He theorized that if Grimes had never…

  • Teens busted for YouTube beat down of homeless man

    Jacqueline Dowd
    30 Oct 2009 | 6:31 am
    Four young men accused of roughing up a homeless man in Pompano Beach and then posting videos of the beating on the Internet are facing charges of kidnapping and battery.Detectives found the videos online while investigating a deadly Oakland Park beating.James Cunningham, 54, was attacked in July 2008. In the video, he left a clue for detectives: He said the name of his attorney, Maurice Graham. The lawyer identified Cunningham to detectives.William Sleight, 19, of Deerfield Beach, recorded the attack on his cellphone as the three other men kicked, taunted, slapped and dragged the homeless…
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  • light and sound.

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    30 Dec 2012 | 11:00 pm
    This blog is in 2 distinct parts:Older Posts:©2007-2008 Tasha FrenchAll of the black & white images are scans of full-frame gelatin darkroom prints and were mostly shot with a 35mm Nikon FE2 SLR*.Square images were shot with a medium-format Hasselblad c/m.At the top of many of these posts, you will see a link to a selected audio clip of the interview with that person. The average recorded interview length is about an hour. The clips on this blog are from about 2.5 to 5.5 minutes. Audio recorded with a Marantz PMD660 Digital Flash Media Recorder using an AKG C-900 Cardioid Condenser Mic.Newer…

  • Keysha & Mary

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    19 Aug 2009 | 10:30 am
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  • Nathan

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  • Carl

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  • Johnny

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  • Flooding in Huntly, Scotland (Matt’s Town)

    ~B~
    2 Nov 2009 | 5:26 pm
    I’ve been mildly irked because I hadn’t heard from Matt in a couple of days… the rural town in Scotland he lives in (Huntly) has very crappy internet connection (as the internet company told him over the phone, “We don’t put masts up for cows!”) so often his internet will go down for several hours [...]

  • Life-Altering Stuff

    ~B~
    29 Oct 2009 | 7:16 pm
    Hi all!  Quickie update  :) Life-altering things have happened this week.  I need to check and find out what and how much I’m allowed to say, but looks as though I’m on the brink of exiting homelessness for good, so keep your fingers crossed for me! Other than that, keeping on keeping on.  Matt’s still in Scotland, [...]

  • Letters From Readers Looking To Help Homeless People

    ~B~
    12 Oct 2009 | 2:08 pm
    I have escaped work for my lunch hour and have found sanctuary in a local Long Beach Starbucks.  Nestled into a corner with my lunch and some coffee, I wanted to make sure I got a post out there about two fantastic readers who would like to help other homeless individuals in need.  So, if [...]

  • CNN’s Young People Who Rock

    ~B~
    7 Oct 2009 | 9:14 pm
    Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Well, here’s the video of my CNN interview with Nicole Lapin, on her weekly segment, Young People Who Rock.  It was supposed to be a bit longer, but Obama decided to give an employment update right at the same time my interview was scheduled, so that delayed it several [...]

  • Those Who Aren’t So Lucky

    ~B~
    7 Oct 2009 | 8:17 pm
    Something I think it’s always important to point out:  Compared to many, I have been and continue to be damn lucky. I was fortunate enough to garner some media attention that has brought me opportunities.  True, I’m not in a house/apartment of my own just yet, but I’ve taken tremendous strides forward from the Walmart parking [...]
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