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Sep 24, 2014
"The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty." --Mother Teresa
A Plan To Make Homelessness History
Each day, roughly 700,000 people in the country are homeless of which some 120,000 are chronically homeless. The 100,000 Homes Campaign has set a goal of placing 100,000 chronically homeless people into permanent supportive housing --- the human welfare equivalent of NASA's race to put a man on the moon. Read on to learn how the campaign is shifting the way cities address homelessness.
BE THE CHANGE
We can profit from shifting our habitual ways of looking at the world. This week look at people on the street, whether homeless or not, in a new way, as valuable members of our world community...
