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Mayor: Focus on low-barrier shelter harms city, homeless
Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.Mayor Mark Kruzan said Tuesday the city stopped allowing a group to shelter homeless people in a municipal parking garage because of numerous complaints and safety concerns. Advocates for a low-barrier summer shelter joined a group of about 30...Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Gateway debate kicks off race for New Haven's next mayor
New Haven Register, Conn.Businesses who fail to pay their low-wage workers were put on notice Tuesday by New Haven's many mayoral candidates: They would send the police to arrest you. Six of the seven contenders addressed this and numerous other social justice issues in an...Tags: Elections, Family, Theft, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Social Issues
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Toledo City Council weighs cuts in funds for city's shelters
The BladeToledo City Council on Tuesday continued treading slowly toward its decision on how much federal money each homeless shelter in the city should receive -- a controversial topic for the second consecutive year. Council President Paula Hicks-Hudson said...Tags: Family, Business Enterprises, United Way , Social Issues, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Broward County approves homeless database
Broward County's contingent of homeless will soon be tracked as they wander through the system of support services, from hospital to jail to shelter, after the county authorized money to fund a computer database. The County Commission on Tuesday...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Broward County, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Homeless 'Bill Of Rights' Doesn't Get At Problem
Homeless people shouldn't be harassed or discriminated against simply because they lack a permanent residence. They shouldn't be subjected to unreasonable searches, be forbidden from using public transportation or be kept out of public parks. They ought...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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'Tent to Tent': Homeless veterans' stories may play out on stage
About one in five homeless Central Floridians once wore our country's colors. Vets such as Loretta White. She's among the 62,000 or so vets who pray the Obama administration's bid to end homelessness by 2015 is a more unequivocal win than the Iraq and...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Winter Springs, Behavioral Conditions, Altamonte Springs, Social Issues
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Homelessness down 2.2% in Sedgwick County
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe latest count of homeless people in Wichita shows a slight drop between 2012 and 2013. The 2013 Sedgwick County "Point-In-Time" County found there are an estimated 538 people who meet the HUD definition of being homeless. (see below for HUD definition)...Tags: Social Issues
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Lack of quorum spotlights Garcetti's council-meeting absences
A quarrel at the Los Angeles City Council over strategies for helping homeless residents on Friday sparked a campaign debate over Councilman Eric Garcetti's frequent absences from meetings as he runs for mayor. The council's 10 a.m. meeting came to a...
Tags: Elections, Eric Garcetti, Primaries, Jan Perry, Local Elections
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Events set to benefit Yuba-Sutter homeless
Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.Advocates are planning two events in May to support the homeless in Yuba-Sutter, with the first designed to bring attention to recent data. The Sutter-Yuba Homeless Consortium said 813 people are homeless in the area and 194 of them are children....Tags: Social Issues
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Public forum to address debate over downtown's 'Homeless Divide'
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)The debate over homelessness downtown will be the focus of the first "Community Conversation" in which two long-standing institutions are combining forces with a community group to seek more meaningful dialogue about issues that affect Colorado Springs...Tags: Social Issues, Colleges and Universities
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'Significant problem that is growing'
The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.The facilities at the former Fort Lyon Correctional Facility east of town would be ready to go if a comprehensive plan to repurpose it were to pass the state Senate, the president of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless said. John Parvensky told...Tags: John Hickenlooper, Social Issues
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Haven House operator to repay Suffolk $546G
NewsdayA homeless shelter operator has dropped its lawsuit against Suffolk County and agreed to repay $546,000 that the county comptroller found was misspent. Haven House/Bridges Inc. has signed an agreement permitting the nonprofit agency to repay the...Tags: Huntington Station
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