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October 27, 1985; A30 ‘This winter the number of homeless‘ people seeking shelter in New York City is expected to ap- prdach the peak levels of the Great Depression; Yet i the.’ city is takinga slow, some-say grudging ap- proach to preparing for the "emergency. . ~ The problem of hornelessness is hardly easy to confront. Overall city expenditures on the homeless have ballooned from $1.8
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August 16, i985; p. C12 T ll-'o«cu7s on homeless youihis A c 1985 ‘The. (Portland) Oregonian. Fleproduced with Permission. ' Though the plight of homeless street T youths has been highlighted of late in the news media and films, there are still enormous gaps in service tothese youths in Portland that must be ‘closed to enable many of them to turn their lives around. Most importantfor
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NEWSDAY August 31, l985; p. 16' % it Shruggi-mg Whoever the fires that shut down ' S Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, the i result was to dramatize the problem of the homeless in New York City as never before. Almost everyone already vknewtabout the problem, of course —- at least in the abstract. . But Wednesdafs smoke impinged quite con- cretely on the lives of thousands of ofiice
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E. Kansas St., Hackensack 07601. Phone: 488-5100. A 0 Eva’s Shelters, 389 Grand St., Paterson 07505. Phone: 523-6220. . 0 St. John’s Lutheran Church, 3511 Palisade Ave., Union City 07087. Phone: 863-6630. 9 0 Shelter for the Homeless, 300 Bloomfield St., Hoboken 07030. Phone: 656-5069. 0 Anthony House 246 Second St., Jersey City 07302. Phone: 656-0139. 0 Morris Shelter, 57 Park Place or P.0. Box
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andwarmth of a hospital. 7 Though.no one.can'estimate with any certainty T how many, homeless people‘ are‘ also mentally ill, the knowledgeable guessers put the proportion at . about one-third. That means in Milwaukee, where 1,000 to 2,000 peopleare considered homeless, 350 to 6.50 or so also have some mental ailment. Those so afflicted, need food and shelter, yes; but they also need medication
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December 25, 1985; p. 30 Leonard Stern has built a fortune manufactur- ing Hartz Mountain pet products and has launched a career as a land developer. Now he offers» to turn those entrepreneurial skills to benefit.New York ’ City's homeless. He proposes to raise $100 million in private’ funds to construct new, temporary shelters for 2,000'families. All can join in hoping for his suc
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that the St. Paul- Minneapolis Archdiocese will contribute to the $8.5 million low-income_ housing plan developed jointly by Hennepin and Ramsey counties and Minneapo- lis and St. Paul. Launched by a $2.7 million McKnight Foundation grant, that project would create permanent housing for nearly 10,000 very poor people over the next three years. Roach points out that the program's, success depends
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Le i(2l$ilE;1°‘.:f:3Zf =33oiir1t*a.l » December l2,'l985; Editorial Page . O 1985 Reproduced with Permission. The (Louisville) Courier¢Journal One glimmer for l‘£l1»e» homeless THE PLAN TO open a daytime shelter next homeless is a bright-spot in an other- wise bleak situation for an estimated y.3,500 people who face-winter, without permanent housing. This facility will meet a clear need
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* ACTIONS m % RESPONSE
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number, which is also on posters at soup kitchens and on tele- I phonebooths,ispartofawinteraction. plan. The plan, which takes‘ effect at temperatures of 11 degrees or less, calls for opening additional shelters and using churches and synagogues as “warming centers" for the estimated l2,000 to 25,000 homeless here. But whether that is enough is subject tothesamedebatethatcanbeheardin cities
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reports that over the last threemonths 1,238 families have spent the night in waiting rooms. City officials, responding to criticism of that fact, say they must delay creating new shelters as long as possible to avoid attracting i even more homeless. And they complain that the state hasn’t come through with enough money to support city shelter efforts. - . The state says it is providing substantial
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because of the truly deplorable conditions there. ‘ But the mere fact that this decision was being reached as winter weather rolled in meant that ‘@1935 Reproduced with Permission. The Washington Post Someffeipfort/iefi'0me1e83 closing the CCNV shelter immediately was no longer possible. President Reagan said as much when he rejected the federal plan to evict recalci- trant tenants from the shelter
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iiirhmonfl Eimrs-Efiispairh ‘ _ -3 L985 The Ricnmond Tlme5'DlSDatch. Reproduced with P€l’rT1lS$|Ol'l. December 13. L985; 9. Al: Issues of formidable complekity come before a typical General Assembly session in only a few months’ time. That’s a good reason for legisla- tive study commissions. Sometimes, to be sure, W they may be only a convenient way for lawmak- ers :to--get a hot potato
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THE A.'l‘LANTA. coNsT1'rU'n:oNlr January & 1, 1986; p. 145 Slates ~ ales erve’ ti: President Reagan and his administration have indeed been lackadaisical about the worsening housing ‘needs of poor and moder- ate-income Americans, but they get bum- rapped when they are blamed forthe home-. less~.w..ho now wander all of_ our nation's cities.‘ . ‘ ' That was the charge
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i January 6. L986; 9. SA t Family tensions and economic dislocation increasing pressures on Baltimore's metropolitan counties to house their homeless. More than 100. persons are sheltered each night in the five sur- = rounding counties. ‘Though the numbers are only. V i one-fifth those in the city. they -are on the‘ rise- y Those seeking shelter are not little ladies clutching shopping bags
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Decémber 24 ’ _‘L ; P _ A6 .0 1985 Reproduced with Permission.’ LAST week, the Free Press ran a‘ story about a man known only as Ralph, who lives in a four-by-six-foot wooden ' vshack under a railroad bridge near a “ Davison Expressway exit. He hadno plans ‘for Christmas, he quietly told a reporter: H_e was just trying -to survive. Ralph is one of an estimated 800 to 1,000 homeless people

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