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“I think it’s going to take a lot more before folks in the neighborhood are satisfied,”

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Posted on August 15, 2008 - 6:12am at Stone Soup Station
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Can you say "gentrification?"

"She's in a period of mourning — this was a big loss for her...She has lived and breathed the Agape Center for so long."

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Posted on August 9, 2008 - 8:34am at Stone Soup Station
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While it is just terrible news when any facility assisting homeless teens closes its doors, I can understand completely the level of stress and difficulty this woman must have endured as she tried to assist these kids.

Make no mistake, working in homeless services is a very difficult, stressful and frustr

"A homeless man who found a purse containing nearly $1,000 returned it to a needy mother of three—but admits he thought about ke

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Posted on August 3, 2008 - 6:18am at Stone Soup Station
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Even with a positive story about a Homeless man, the media has to find a way to show that "those homeless" are shifty, prone to theft and scandalous.

Who gives two [bleep]s whether he thought about keeping the money?

“I stay here and there.”

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Posted on July 25, 2008 - 5:16am at Stone Soup Station
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Homeless count, Motor City style....

Teams scour Detroit area to count homeless | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Teams scour Detroit area to count homeless

By ERIC D.

"Maynard said he wants to develop a homeless policy."

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Posted on July 12, 2008 - 9:40am at Stone Soup Station
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I have considerable respect for Jerry Maynard, and I'm with him on the matter of passing all the heavy lifting off to non profits, but apparently he needs a little enlightening as to some of the changes that have been taking place over the previous year.

Nashville's Health Department Hopes To Assist Homeless Kids Before It's Too Late

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Posted on June 27, 2008 - 7:45pm at Stone Soup Station
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I attended the second meeting with members of the Metro Health Department's peeps charged with providing mobile screening and vaccinations for children in the Nashville area.  Talk about a caring, compassionate and driven group of folks!

As you may recall from my earlier post, the goals were lofty:

"...tent city for homeless people near downtown will be dismantled in September to make way for a parking lot at the homeless se

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Posted on June 25, 2008 - 6:41am at Stone Soup Station
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Reno struggles with a burgeoning homeless population - just like the rest of us....

Jun. 25, 2008

"..cash transfers from the city’s treasury to an account set up to pay for the per-diem shelter services have increased by $45 m

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Posted on June 9, 2008 - 7:35am at Stone Soup Station
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Nashville should be so lucky as to have access to "an account set up to pay for the per-diem shelter services."

"...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

"Phoenix is considering adopting a model of treating homelessness known as Housing First..."

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Posted on May 29, 2008 - 7:06am at Stone Soup Station
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We've got one Housing First program here in Nashville, as I've mentioned previously, Fisk Court.

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