Homelessness Marathon on MySpace

Visit the Homelessness Marathon site hosted on MySpace, here (includes videos).

'Homeless Man Crusades Against Condo Conversions in Burlington' [Vermont]

Must-read article: A House Divided, here [via Seven Days; alternative weekly newspaper; Burlington, Vermont].

[cross-posted at Norsehorse's Home Turf]

'Homelessness Counts'

Study: Vermont nightly homeless figure estimated at nearly 1,000 (here):

A new national study released today put Vermont's daily homeless population at 927 in January 2005, a figure the Douglas administration says it is aggressively working to reduce.

The study, by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, determined that 744,313 people nationwide were homeless at the same time in early 2005, and that 44 percent of them were living in unsheltered situations. In Vermont, 24 percent were not living in shelters, the study found.

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Read the article in full, here [via Burlington Free Press; 1/10/2007].

fyi: Homelessness Counts Report, January 10, 2007 [via National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH)].


[cross-posted from Norsehorse's Home Turf, here]