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"We shouldn't be closing homeless shelters, period, and certainly not ones downtown, where people have easy access to the servic

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Posted on September 12, 2008 - 9:16am at Stone Soup Station
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While I am certainly on my feet applauding the leasing of 800 apartments, if the cost includes closing shelters to do so I think they're making a tremendous mistake.....

D.C. Leases 800 Apartments for the Homeless

ALERT: DEADLINE TO VACATE TENT CITY HAS BEEN EXTENDED

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Posted on September 9, 2008 - 9:32pm at Stone Soup Station
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There is no doubt that the powe of the press and the news has played a significant role in granting us a reprieve on the closing of Tent City.  From all the residents of Tent City and those of us who are working so hard to assist them, we humbly thank everyone for their support, calls to the mayor and city officials, offers of assistance and power in numbers; we

A Clarification Statement From Sly Salon in Denver...

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Posted on August 21, 2008 - 6:33pm at Stone Soup Station
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I am co-owner of Sly Salon in Denver, the ones who gave free haircuts to the homeless on Tuesday. There has been TONS of inaccurate news being spread about this and I am sending this to help clarify the misinformation.

"Residents were surprised by the way gardening united them, in an area where it sometimes seems best to mind your own business a

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Posted on August 14, 2008 - 6:38am at Stone Soup Station
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I'm convinced that gardening brings people together and adds some very simple joy and satisfaction to lives that often don't get much of either.....

The raids, which began with a June 24 raid under two downtown bridges that displaced over 100 homeless residents, are being carr

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Posted on July 16, 2008 - 6:49am at Stone Soup Station
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"Clean and safe."

Hmmmm.....

Now where have I heard that phrase used before.....???

"...federal judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement in a lawsuit brought by nine homeless residents in Fresno."

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Posted on June 15, 2008 - 10:04am at Stone Soup Station
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Another reason that should give pause to those officials considering sweeps of homeless camps without proper notification and/or time to remove personal belongings...

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"...local police have been driving people out from under bridges and in parks, and actually telling them to go to the tent city.

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Posted on June 4, 2008 - 9:32pm at Stone Soup Station
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Reno's tent city attracting more and more residents - and attention....

Check out the video here

Photo Show At Belmont University

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Posted on April 8, 2008 - 6:17pm at The Homeless Guy
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The Sociology Dept at Belmont and Mobile Loaves and Fishes Nashville is hosting a photography show of pictures taken by Nashville's homeless residents. The opening will be this Friday from 10 to 11am. I will be there, and have been asked to say a few words. Come and see.

This is the press release they send out:
Homeless, Working Poor to Offer Photo Exhibit at Belmont
Students, employees

Homeless Power Project makes its voice heard at Metro Courthouse

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Posted on December 5, 2007 - 7:35am at thinktrain
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