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Calif. Senate OKs homeless civil rights protection

Posted Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 07:18PM on SFGate News: Politics

Attacks on the homeless could violate California's civil rights law under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill passed Monday would let the state's estimated 157,000 homeless sue for higher damages if they are targeted for assault beca… [ read more… ]

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Homeless and Empty Homes -- an American Travesty

Posted Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:48AM on Huffington Post

About 3.5 million US residents (about 1% of the population), including 1.35 million children, have been homeless for a significant period of time. Over 37,000 homeless individuals (including 16,000 children) stay in shelters in New York every night.  [ read more… ]

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Five years after Katrina, still homeless (Newsweek, 08.23.10)

Posted Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 07:30AM on National Alliance to End Homelessness

It took Charles King and his family just a couple of hours to leave their house in New Orleans on Aug. 27, 2005, but they have been struggling for five years since then to find home again. It was two days before Hurricane Katrina struck the ci… [ read more… ]

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YouTube Dedicates Homepage To Homelessness On Sunday, August 22

Posted Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:11PM on Homelessness on The Huffington Post

Activist and frequent HuffPost blogger Mark Horvath has dedicated years of his life to telling stori [ read more… ]

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Pakistan: Food Aid Means Fresh Bread For Homeless Families

Posted Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:01AM on WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Pakistan: Food Aid Means Fresh Bread For Homeless Families imageSummary: After floodwaters washed over her home in the Sindh district of southern Pakistan, Menaz an [ read more… ]

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HUD AWARDS $312 MILLION IN DISASTER RECOVERY GRANTS TO HELP STATES REDUCE DAMAGES FROM FUTURE DISASTERS

Posted Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:01AM on HUD Press Releases

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded nearly $ [ read more… ]

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The Legacy Of Hurricane Katrina - NPR (blog)

Posted Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:14AM on homeless source:"NPR" - Google News

The Legacy Of Hurricane Katrina NPR (blog) A cloud of desperation settled over the hundreds o… [ read more… ]

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Form 990 (2009)

Posted Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 07:15AM on National Alliance to End Homelessness

Form 990 Submitted to the IRS by the National Alliance to End Homelessness in 2009. The 990 is submi [ read more… ]

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"Jimmy" Back Home Again!

Posted Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 03:57AM on Stone Soup Station

Mark Horvath's recent visit here to Nashville was wonderful for several reasons, and I suspect if yo [ read more… ]

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Joan Burke evokes Rosa Parks at Aug 24 City Council session

Posted Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:39PM on Sacramento Homeless blog

Rosa ParksMany homeless people and executives with homeless-services nonprofits came to the city cou [ read more… ]

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Networth: Help for renters as well as homeowners (San Fransisco Chronicle, 08.18.10)

Posted Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:45PM on National Alliance to End Homelessness

Renters, who make up about one-third of households nationwide -- and close to two-thirds in large ci [ read more… ]

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Project 50 Is Just Part of the Homelessness Story (Los Angeles Downtown News, 08.20.10)

Posted Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:15PM on National Alliance to End Homelessness

The story of homelessness in Los Angeles is about as complex as you can find anywhere. It would be c [ read more… ]

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Gulf Residents Struggle In Aftermath Of Oil Spill - NPR

Posted Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:25PM on homeless source:"NPR" - Google News

Gulf Residents Struggle In Aftermath Of Oil Spill NPR At the Waterfront Rescue Mission's home… [ read more… ]

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