Homelessness – Page 33

The Invisible Ones: Homeless Combat Veterans

Source April 3, 2009 7 Comments

by Patty Mooney

How many times have you passed up a sleeping figure underneath a blanket or tarp on the darkened streets of your city? Have you ever considered that this could be one of our war heroes?

Tent City America: Sacramento, Seattle, Olympia, Nashville, Reno, St. Petersburg, NYC, … where next?

Frank Gormlie April 2, 2009 4 Comments

As San Diego closes its winter shelter for our local homeless, nation-wide the homeless, joined by the jobless, are erecting tent cities. Among the cities which are grappling with an increasing number of tent city residents are Fresno, Sacramento and Los Angeles in California, New York City, Seattle and Olympia in Washington, and St. Petersburg in Florida.

Why has America’s response to ‘Tent Cities’ been to send in the police who slash up the tents?

Frank Gormlie March 17, 2009 1 Comment

Why is it that our society’s response to the tent cities that have sprung up of late been to send in the police who roust the inhabitants and slash up the tents?

Ontario CA Sets Up Fenced-In ‘Tent City’ for Local Homeless Only

Source March 16, 2009 5 Comments

Dozens of Ontario police and code enforcement officers descended upon the homeless encampment known as Tent City early Monday, separating those who could stay from those to be evicted.

Miami Activist Organizes Homeless Into Forclosed Homes

Staff December 1, 2008 6 Comments

Miami housing activists are organizing homeless people to illegally move into foreclosed homes. “We’re matching homeless people with people-less homes,” Max Rameau said with a grin. Rameau is part of a group of like-minded advocates who have formed Take Back the Land, which so far have moved six families into foreclosed homes, with nine on a waiting list. The organization also helps the new “tenants” with secondhand furniture, cleaning supplies and yard upkeep.