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• n  the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets)

• At a time when Americans are dealing with rising food and fuel prices, slowing jobs and soaring home foreclosures, is it really possible that homelessness is on the decline .
• The Department of Housing and Urban Development's fourth annual report on homelessness pinpoints troubling trends.
• Why Americans have stopped talking about homelessness .

News & Articles

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• Ten-year plan on homelessness on track
  Kern County's ten-year-plan to end homelessness turned five last month.
  June 12, 2013 - KERO 23 Bakersfield
• New non-profit aims to reduce homelessness
  Volunteers and officials from Without Walls, a non-profit in Allen County to combat homelessness, are showing off renovations at their new shelter.
  June 12, 2013 - Your Hometown Lima Stations
• New manual aims to help homeless youth
  Life doesn’t come with a manual, but now there’s one for youth homelessness. Columbia Legal Services, Starbucks and the law firm Baker & McKenzie have created a 270-page manual filled with information and advice for homeless youth living in Washington state.
  June 12, 2013 - Real Change News

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in Forbes
  We look at what has been created in North America - horror, torture, homelessness, Guantanamo, detention without courts or investigation,Putin said.
• Leland Yee in California Chronicle
  We need to increase funding, not eliminate it,said Yee. "Until we end domestic violence, funding for shelters should never be on the chopping block. Without these shelters, women and children are forced into a choice between homelessness...