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permanent supportive housing

The National Housing Trust Fund will primarily fund the development of rental housing affordable to extremely low income househo

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Posted on September 10, 2008 - 6:28am at Stone Soup Station
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Required reading for advocates, direct service workers and anyone interested in the direction of national policy for those experiencing homelessness....

"Three hundred seventy-five units over a 20-year period, of housing that's affordable, is simply an inadequate number..."

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Posted on August 21, 2008 - 8:32am at Stone Soup Station
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New Jersey deals with the affordable housing dilemma....

(Tinton Falls, NJ)

Advocates: Homeless housing in fort plan 'just not enough'

"I was fixing to end it"

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Posted on August 18, 2008 - 5:32am at Stone Soup Station
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Forget about the traditional method of placing folks into housing. It takes far too long, has way too many barriers, is extremely expensive and has a very low success rate.

"only 14 percent of homeless people stay in emergency shelters longer than six months, but they use almost two-thirds of shelter

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Posted on July 12, 2008 - 8:35am at Stone Soup Station
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Housing first. Permanent supportive housing. Affordable housing. Subsidizing housing.

Housing as a basic human need and right.

Housing is the answer and until we recognize this, we will be fighting a losing battle.

"Individual welfare payments remain at $221 a month or $2,652 a year - far below the poverty line of $10,400."

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Posted on June 26, 2008 - 8:42am at Stone Soup Station
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Sorta puts the kibosh on the old - and fallacious - idea that folks on welfare are living "high on the hog."

Los Angeles Still Homeless Capital of United States

"Veterans advocates say repeated deployments & PTSD are leading to...financial dislocation, family estrangement , homelessness."

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Posted on May 24, 2008 - 12:51pm at Stone Soup Station
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It's always just jaw-dropping to me how our "leaders" send our men and women off to kill and die in war after war, pumping them up in the process with patriotic zeal and propagandistic jargon and slogans.

"Among the causes of homelessness: insufficient income and low-paying jobs, unaffordable housing, and poor access to services."

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Posted on February 14, 2008 - 7:44am at Stone Soup Station
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Doesn't matter what city or town you're in, the reasons for homelessness are still the same....

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