Terry Snee now stays in a shelter for the homeless but until recently slept rough at Washington's Union Station.
In a city facing a multibillion-dollar deficit, every nonessential dollar spent is a dollar less available for hospital care or shelter for the homeless, or police for troubled neighborhoods.
Which meant also that going into a shelter for the homeless there had to be one somewhere in town, probably at the south end, where lived immigrants, undocumented aliens, and the working poor that, too, was out of the question.
Indeed, the facility provided shelter for some of the homeless, and is said to have been the first place to receive food supplies after the tsunami.
Last spring, when advocates for the homeless unsuccessfully sued the Bloomberg administration to force it to continue Advantage, a state Court of Appeals judge asked the lawyer representing the city a question: Isn't it more expensive for the city to pay to shelter the homeless than to help these families pay rent on a permanent home?
Bursting with families, it resembled a homeless shelter for the well-to-do.
He also told the crowd that he had donated the gray argyle sweater he last wore in Keene -- which drew several critical comments in the media -- to Liberty House, a transitional shelter opening for homeless veterans in Manchester, which put the sweater up for auction on the Web site eBay.
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.
In 2001, she was in her 70s and running a homeless shelter for men in the one the meanest parts of Kansas City, Kan.
On Thursday the duke and duchess were in Glasgow, where they visited venues being used for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as well as the Stopover Project homeless shelter and the Donald Dewar Leisure Centre in the Drumchapel area.
With the homeless visiting libraries frequently for shelter during the day, Internet is accessible.
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Both the homeless charity Shelter and the Council of Mortgage Lenders have called for mortgage rescue schemes to be regulated.
Of the many cases the child-protection people have been struggling with, this one constitutes their most flagrant failure, for they can't find a homeless shelter in all of Paris that will accept the boy together with his helpless mother.
Earlier in December, Shelter was critical after government figures showed the number of homeless families in England had topped 100, 000 for the first time.
Having measured the value to the public of charities' work, the researchers then added estimates for the benefits to recipients (eg, how much homeless people would have to pay for shelter of similar quality) and other factors, such as donations and government subsidies, to produce an overall balance of costs and benefits and hence of value added.
Video and written content for the site is currently undergoing development, with the guidance of a Board of Advisers comprised of homeless shelter volunteers and previously homeless people.
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And when she learned that she was a semifinalist for the Intel Science Talent Search, when she found this out her family was living in a homeless shelter.
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