Female veteran sues homeless shelter for biasJohn Ellement, Globe Staff
Peter Marchese, who is the president of the board at North Side Housing and Support Services, said it important that the shelter gets a permanent home. "We are now one of only two shelters exclusively for men on the North Side of the city, so it is vital that we'r...
Although this policy enables the shelter to clean the living spaces, and was often described informally as an approach aimed at encouraging people to engage in job seeking efforts, it was also found to create challenges for some participants as they are unable to access their “home” bathroom ...
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Theexperience of homelessnesscan significantly reduce an individual’s quality of life (Goodman et al.1991). People who are homeless tend to endure heat, cold, and wet more acutely than do people who have adequatehousing. Additionally, housing insecurity and the conditions of temporary housing can...
International differences exist in the way homelessness is defined. When defining homelessness, it is critical to acknowledge that homelessness includes not only the absence of safe and suitable physical shelter, but also themarginalization, reduced capacity for education and employment and thus financia...
such as shelter or food. Our results extend earlier studies among homeless and marginally housed youth and IDU that found higher number of sexual partnerships than their more stably housed counterparts [10,12], perhaps through commercial sex exchanges. Similarly, Surratt and Inciardi (2004) found ...
On any given night, there are over 107 thousand veterans sleeping homeless on the streets of America; hungry, thirsty and without shelter (Veteran Affairs, www.va.gov). That is not say that the men and women who have families are safe from homelessness. A majority of the homeless veteran...
“Many women deal with shelter issues, and many of them go to their parents or other relatives, but there are cases where they go back [to their husband’s house] because there is nowhere for them to go,” she says, having lived with her parents since 2013. “We have a case in Dra...