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homeless issues

Thinking Outside The Box (Or Inside The Loop)

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Lt. Vicki Swisher, with the Nashville Metro Police department, recently attended one of our local outreach meetings and I was impressed with her compassion and her frank honesty concerning the homeless issues her department must address on a daily basis.

"...underlying needs must be addressed to keep families from becoming homeless in the first place,"

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Seattle has headlined much lately in dealing with the Homeless issues facing their city. As with any place that tries new tactics, good and bad press abound, but press that spotlights the issues facing cities with homeless populations (and thats just about all of them) brings with it an incremental increase in the knowledge of homelessness for our society - something desperately needed because so much of the general public is either ignorant or extremely indifferent to the problem.

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