Ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty worked with Austin nonprofit Front Steps to equip about a dozen homeless people with wireless 4G cards that turned them into human Wi-Fi hot spots.
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It also operates a centre for homeless people providing year-round supported accommodation for 20 adult men.
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Not everyone is taken care of, critics say, and a number of homeless people know nothing about the emergencies shelters.
Mr. WILLIAM BRIGHTON (Homeless): What they're doing is they're moving suburbia LA back downtown, and in a way it's unfair to a lot of homeless people who have become accustomed to calling downtown, the streets, their home, because they can't afford anything else.
It's in the west African state of Congo Brazzaville and at least half-a-million people have been made homeless by a conflict, which has until now been hidden in the dense forests.
As a result, a new class of homeless people is growing at an alarming rate.
You see little Fifi on the street and you know it's just such a juxtaposition from what homeless people are experiencing down here.
The Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2003 and gave a long-term commitment for all unintentionally homeless people to have the right to a permanent home by 2012.
According to a human-rights organisation, 500 people were left homeless as a result.
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We were met with a wall of faces: angry, distraught, helpless and homeless people -- all resigned to a life of suffering with a lot of bitterness.
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Usually you see homeless people with a dog, it's a dog that's like the guy.
In 1999 it was converted into a place of incarceration for homeless people with mental illness.
According to the National Resource Centre on Homelessness and Mental Illness, up to one in four homeless people has a serious mental illness.
Meanwhile, although over 200, 000 homeless people found a roof with host families, very few of these families received aid in the first month.
But she says her advocacy turned to action only after a drive with her children, where they spotted a group of mentally ill homeless people.
Families have slept at city shelters at an increased pace since a rent subsidy for recently homeless people ended in spring 2011, their numbers rising by 35% since the program's demise eliminated part of the city's social safety net.
According to Homeless Link, a national charity supporting individuals and organisations working directly with homeless people in England, more than 6, 000 people have been helped off the streets or away from sleeping rough by the grants made so far.
The first busload brought in included people recruited at a homeless shelter in Texas.
Downland spokesman Linda Thomas said there was a large number of young single homeless people in the city.
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That was echoed by Leslie Morphy, the chief executive of Crisis, a charity which works with single homeless people.
Margaret Davidson said welfare reform and the council's plans for temporary housing for homeless people had created a "perfect storm".
He added that further work was needed to see whether the figures for the last three months showed a long-term trend in homeless people coming from other areas.
And giving homeless people jobs is a good idea.
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But I try to caution people that a lot of the services that helped keep people from being homeless beforehand aren't all up and running.
Midland Heart said rather than a hostel, the apartments would help homeless people develop confidence and life skills.
Overall, the city estimated there were 3, 180 unsheltered homeless people in January, a slight decline of 82 people from 2012.
"A lot of charities who are helping homeless people, for example, they don't get any revenue from that, " he said.
One of the marchers, Roger Washington, who lives in a shelter, recalled the carpenters descending on a meal for the homeless and hiring 140 people in one fell swoop.
Yet in April the CDC notified the state that a major TB outbreak was unfolding among homeless people in Florida, linked to 99 cases and 13 deaths, according to this report in t he Palm Beach Post.
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