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homeless issues

San Fran Mayor's Chief of Staff Phil Ginsburg: stepping down to spend more time with his family. His resignation is effective Au

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Posted on July 14, 2008 - 8:14am at Stone Soup Station
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Ah, the dreaded "spend time with the family" excuse. It's no secret that San Francisco has had "difficulties" in addressing issues related to homelessness; many believe they've done about the worst job possible and have mistreated scores of people in the process.

Each inmate at the Marion County Jail costs taxpayers roughly $37 per day: "We think that's a waste of taxpayer's money,"

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Posted on June 16, 2008 - 6:24am at Stone Soup Station
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I do too...

Proposed law worries homeless advocates Ordinance would keep transient shelters away from schools, churches, residences

Thinking Outside The Box (Or Inside The Loop)

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Posted on March 19, 2008 - 8:48pm at Stone Soup Station
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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.

"Hate crime against the homeless is a serious growing trend with people of color more likely to be targets,"

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Posted on February 20, 2008 - 7:34am at Stone Soup Station
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As I mentioned in the post directly below, violence has become a fact of life for the Homeless and things haven't gotten any better since this story ran in 2005....

"The crush surprised city officials, who had expected to house no more than 364 homeless people a night at the temporary shelter

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Posted on February 12, 2008 - 8:21am at Stone Soup Station
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The Baltimore Sun
February 11, 2008 Monday
FINAL EDITION
A SHELTER OVERFLOWING;
CITY OPENS 3 MORE SPACES, RUNS BUSES FOR MEALS, SHOWERS

Lynn Anderson, Sun reporter

LOCAL; Pg. 1B

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

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Posted on February 8, 2008 - 9:09am at Stone Soup Station
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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.

Exploiting The Homeless

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Posted on January 21, 2008 - 8:13am at Volunteer Voters
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Chris Wage discusses homelessness and how even being on the “right” side of issue can lead one down the path of exploitation:

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