The Atlantic Cities on why there needs to be more wet shelters. Neil Donovan, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, agrees with the Daily News and says one death shouldn’t turn people off the idea of a wet shelter. "This isn’t a party house,” he told me earlier this week. "Wet in [...]
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Street Kids in Odessa
Heartbreaking photos and story about the estimated 3000 kids who are living on the street in Odessa, Ukraine. On Odessa streets, children from all over Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Prydnestovye and Russia coexist. “According to…official statistics about three thousand children live in the streets of Odessa. According to the words of the specialists it is just [...]
Helping Rural Homeless
From ABC News.com A viewer called the 13abc Action News Get Connected phone bank saying it is hard for the homeless to find help and resources outside the Toledo metropolitan area. So we headed to Sandusky County to check it out. Margaret Weisz, Executive Director of the Liberty Center, says, "We have been very, very [...]
Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools
From the New York Times While current national data are not available, the number of schoolchildren in homeless families appears to have risen by 75 percent to 100 percent in many districts over the last two years, according to Barbara Duffield, policy director of the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, [...]
The upside of down
This is a great photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters of unused shipping containers piled up at a storage depot in Hong Kong. The Chinese government is looking for places to store hundreds of thousands of unused containers expected to flood Hong Kong in the coming months due to China’s slow exports. As long time readers [...]
The -15 Below Jacket
There are 300,000 homeless in Canada and sadly there is not enough space to house them all, even in emergency conditions. To combat this, Taxi (a design firm) came up with a jacket that will help keep someone who is homeless alive for a night. While I find this solution a sad reflection on how [...]
More funding for affordable housing
The Government of Saskatchewan made my work a lot easier with an announcement today that they were increasing certain aspects of Social Services funding, especially for emergency shelter rates and per room rates, both which have a huge impact on what we do around here. For us who are working extremely hard in getting an [...]
