San Diego has agencies that work on permanent solutions for getting the homeless off the street. However, for every ten that get off the street at least ten take their place. Some never get off the street. We know some who have been living on the street for over twenty years. My wife ...
The article features Betty Chinn, founder of Homeless Outreach in Eureka, California, which brings food and clothing to the homeless. Chinn was giving out sandwiches and coffee from her van twice a day for more 15 years, until a group of local merchants threatened to file a public nuisance ...
Today, Tyschenko-Mysliwiec is executive director of the Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans (MSHV) in Wheaton. Its mission is to provide veterans and their families housing and supportive services that lead to self-sufficiency. “We want to give people a hand up, not a hand out,” she sa...
The Union Mission is located in a valley in Charleston’s Kanawha City area. Our thrift store, administration, addiction recovery, warehouse, and preschool facilities have been here since the 1950s when locals fondly referred to the area as Mission Hollow. Today, to reach us, you pass South...
SECOND MALE VOICE:Well, to beat the undertaker. Spend the money before the undertaker gets it. BILL MOYERS:Critics called them radicals. They called themselves the bonus expeditionary force in memory of more triumphal times. In truth, most we’re simply hungry, homeless victims of bad times as...