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Who Cares About The Homeless?
Who Cares About The Homeless?
06/13/2013 - National Alliance To End Homelessness
2013 VETERAN HOMELESSNESS COUNTS MAP
June 13, 2013 This map serves as a database of January 2013 Point-in-Time counts of homeless veterans that have been reported in media reports or on Continuum of Care/government websites. The U.S. Government has set a goal of ending veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. Substantial progress needs to be made now in order to achieve that goal.
DATA POINT: CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS IN THE UNITED STATES 2013
June 10, 2013 This one-page brief shows the change in the percentage of people experiencing chronic homelessness in the United States by state from 2011 to 2012, as well as the annual reductions in homelessness needed in order to meet the Administration's goal of ending chronic homelessness by 2015.
Editorial calls attention to overlooked emergency of homelessness in New York City, which the next mayor will have to address; notes city looks cleaner and safer in gentrifying neighborhoods but it looks vastly different from sites where tens of thousands of New Yorkers are languishing.MORE »
06/17/2013 - The New York Times
The Empowerment Plan (.org) is dedicated the helping the homeless. They employ Detroit homeless shelter residence, manufacturing a very special coat/sleeping bag that preforms like a shelter, keeping the homeless warm and dry.
http://www.empowermentplan.org/
Homeless Voice Shelter (.org) is a one of a kind shelter, that help the homeless people who no one else wants, or will accept. After watching their pod cast, I was truely moved by their good works. They make their shelter feel like a home.
