"So I have my long johns, I have my scarf, I have my face mask, I have my cap, I have my gloves—I'm ready to put myself in the best position possible so I can be in a comfortable spot as much as I can," he said. Accenture Chicago is also a sponsor, with 55 employees f...
This can spread to the services provided by the homeless industry, medical professionals, and similar services. As people talk a person can get labeled as ‘underserving’ and when those rumors reach the individuals controlling access to gov’t benefits and non-profit resources, it can influence ...
Our success hinges upon our ability to mobilize, re-deploy, expand, and coordinate our financial and human resources, with the recognition that it will truly take all of us to end homelessness in Chicago. Getting Housed, Staying Housed: A Collaborative Plan to End Homelessness outlines,...
The Institute of Global Homelessness will hold its first bi-annual research conference from June 1 – 2, 2015 in Chicago. The conference, Homelessness in a Global Landscape, will explore broad themes in global homelessness, with an eye to narrowing the focus in subsequent years. We will conv...
Grant and Reverend Barnes also told the media that Reverend Jesse Jackson and his staff are pulling together resources to help eliminate Chicago’s tent cities, including finding funds to build affordable housing and the resources needed to help the homeless become productive citizens of Chicago. ...
If nations vary so widely, that suggests national policy changes could reduce high rates of homelessness. In the past decade or so, the U.S. has dramatically ramped up resources devoted to eliminating homelessness among veterans. Thanks to these efforts, veteran homelessness went down 35 percent...
“vagrant”). In “On the Road,” the author, “Langston Hughes” provides a short story of a vagrant, Sargeant, who during the great depression, on a cold, snowy evening, attempts to get some food and shelter. Sargeant is a round character; who is black, hungry, exhausted, disorderly...
Such data could further encourage our political leaders to more seriously engage this problem and allocate the societal resources necessary for its amelioration. Only gender and age emerged as consistent predictors of belief, atti- tude, and knowledge variables. Compared to men, women seemed more ...
“homelessness a routine, persistent, visible feature of urban life,”(1) which affected a wide population of the country. After the 2008 financial collapse, homelessness again became a feature of the majority of large cities, and has been present in many small towns, a consequence of the ...
ECONOMIC RESOURCES OF THE HOMELESS: EVIDENCE FROM LOS ANGELES This paper examines the economic resources of homeless adults using a unique data set from Los Angeles. The homeless rely on a variety of sources for incom... RF Schoeni,P Koegel - 《Contemporary Economic Policy》 被引量: 15发表...