Homeless numbers increase 22% for single adults, 11% among households with child

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upstatecajun  Donating Member  (455 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Apr-22-11 08:08 PM
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Homeless numbers increase 22% for single adults, 11% among households with children in Columbus, OH
   
Homelessness among households with children in Columbus and Franklin County increased by about 11 percent, to 132 families.

The biggest jump in the Columbus area was for single adults who went unsheltered, which means they were not sleeping in an emergency shelter or living in transitional housing. Their numbers increased by about 22 percent, to 125.

The 2010 counts are the first to reflect the three-year Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, which provided $1.5 billion in stimulus money nationally to stave off the effects of the recession.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x943645

More change you can believe in.

OwnedByFerrets  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Apr-22-11 08:57 PM
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3. That there is even ONE homeless family in America is a ****ing crime
   
Thank you Raygun, you dead mother****er

Yep it's all Reagan's fault.

Nevermind mr hope n change has had over 2 years to solve the homeless problem. I'm sure though there is a bill being drafted by some democrat mandating that we either pay rent or have a mortgage. That was the solution for health insurance after all.

[GOBUCKS]

We could reduce the number of homeless to zero overnight, just by going back to calling them winos. When I was a kid there were winos, and down in the horseweeds on the banks of the Ohio River there was a good-sized hobo jungle, but I never heard of a homeless person. In fact, I'm pretty sure I never heard the term even once, until sometime in the 1980s, when the democrat press made it up as a way to slander President Reagan.

[NHSparky]

Amazing how we only hear and see telethons for the homeless when a Republican is President.

Did the MSM ever do a story on the "Obamaville" outside Colorado Springs?

[jukin]

The 2010 counts are the first to reflect the three-year Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, which provided $1.5 billion in stimulus money nationally to stave off the effects of the recession.

Which after filtering through a myriad of federal, state, county, and city union controlled bureaucracies got skimmed down to about $15 that actually went to directly help the homeless. Of course, that will be at highly inflated prices.

In our town we open up a few "Warming Centers" when it gets down into the thirties. This year due to the increase in Global Warming we had a record number of nights of cold temperatures, about double from average. So the extortionists that run these "Warming Centers" went back for more money. The problem was they gave some hard numbers of  "homeless", number of beds, and overall dollar amounts needed. It worked out to $50 per homeless night. Turns out they could have put two of them in some of our hotels (mid-week) for only $70/night or 37.50 per homeless night.  These "Warming Centers" are already built and paid for by the benevolent local government so no renting of them.  Now these same people are going to run our health care system. What could go wrong?

[NHSparky]

Just checked the thread at DU again.  No bobo, homelessness did NOT start under Reagan.

Aside from her and the usual crowd of, "free shit for everyone and the rich oughta pay for it!" crowd, pretty quiet.

[franksolich]

I thought someone was going to wave a magic wand at 11:01 a.m. January 20, 2009--more than two years ago, if one needs reminded--and this problem would magically disappear.

The primitives, especially the lonestarnut primitive, promised us it would.

[Splashdown]

Bobolink put on weight, did she?

[GOBUCKS]

Just checked the thread at DU again.  No bobo, homelessness did NOT start under Reagan.

Yes, as a matter of fact, it did. Prior to Reagan there were lots of winos, hobos, and bums, but no homeless.
 
The sight is seared, seared into my memory of hundreds, maybe thousands, of bums lying on the sidewalks, under pieces of cardboard, during a tour of The Bowery in the early 60s. At that time, no one had heard the term "homeless people".

When you only have the newspapers and fifteen minutes of broadcast news per day, bums and drunks are hardly important enought to mention.

[Boudicca]

We could reduce the number of homeless to zero overnight, just by going back to calling them winos. When I was a kid there were winos, and down in the horseweeds on the banks of the Ohio River there was a good-sized hobo jungle, but I never heard of a homeless person. In fact, I'm pretty sure I never heard the term even once, until sometime in the 1980s, when the democrat press made it up as a way to slander President Reagan.

I'm actually a bit surprised that the political correctness police haven't come out with a different term than homeless, like dwelling challenged.
Wino works for me though.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Homeless numbers increase 22% for single adults, 11% among households with child

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