Sentences with phrase «homeless people living»

«A report completed earlier this year indicated there were at least 369 homeless people living in Bergen County,» said Community Service Committee Chair Miriam Lambert.

It's reported that there are about 3.5 million homeless people living in the U.S. Pet's of the Homeless estimates, that approximately 5 % — 10 % of the homeless population have pets (that equates to about 175,000 — 350,000 homeless people having a dog and / or cat).

In the closed ecosystem of borderline - homeless people living for 29 days at a time in motels along Highway 192 in Kissimmee, Florida, that's pretty much how it works.

Great Speeches From a Dying World is an unsettling documentary portrait gallery of nine homeless people living on the streets of Seattle.

In his national - tilted themes, Cuomo talked of an American economic transformation that has made a «handful rich,» of record homeless people living on the streets and a judicial system too often tipped «by resources or race.»

Despite that promise, the number of homeless people living in hotels has grown over the past year.

He told people that there were no homeless people living in the streets of New York, and most recently, he felt that more blacks and Latinos needed to be stopped and frisked as opposed to whites,» Liu said.

There has been a recent explosion in the number of homeless people living on our streets.

The task force, chaired by city Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks, Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Vicki Been and Laura Mascuch, executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, will help the city expedite the creation of the new housing units, de Blasio said, as it faces high numbers of homeless people living in city shelters and on the streets.

After more than a year of resisting questions about when, if ever, the shelter census will start to decline, the new plan also sets an exceedingly modest target for reducing the number of homeless people living in shelter.

The number of homeless people living in shelters in New York City has significantly jumped since Advantage ended, climbing from 42,033 by the end of 2011 to 60,296 in January 2016.

CBS 2 New York story on Borough President Adams honoring Bay Ridge brothers Nick and Mike Fiorito for their work handing out purple blankets to homeless people living on the streets.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

Last Saturday our small group ventured to downtown San Diego to an area where several hundred homeless people live on the sidewalk, in the shadow of the ballpark.

Based on the annual homeless count, a day when teams attempt to count every homeless person in the city (an impossible task), most homeless organizations here believe that over 10,000 homeless people live in our city.

To curb transmission rates, San Diego officials have hosted more than 250 mass vaccination events, installed hand - washing stations throughout the city, and made efforts to sanitize areas where homeless people live and congregate, spraying down sidewalks and streets with diluted bleach, reports NPR.

In development over at Last Pick Productions, iBeg is a mobile game for the iOS and Android platforms that simulates the life of a homeless person living on the streets of Vancouver.

I remember the entrance to a hike in Calistoga even where a group of homeless people lived at the trail head.

Not exact matches

Another way we keep our employees engaged is by inviting them to take part in company events, like the Virgin Mobile Live Freefest, a free music festival we hold every year to raise money (through donations) for homeless young people.

«In my community of Surrey, people who live in manufactured home parks are worried that they'll be evicted, have nowhere to go, and become homeless if the owner decides to redevelop the site,» said Bains.

What do many of the most successful (and richest) hedge fund managers have in common with a life - long homeless person?

While living as a homeless wanderer through Israel, Jesus was himself an outsider and spent his time with social pariahs: people who were in some way racially, financially, physically or morally different than those making up the majority in Judea.

But all religions are elitist to a point - they all think they are right and the best - but you can not go out and preach the word of Christ by alienating those you wish to hear the word... it's like someone from a country club going to a homeless person and throwing out all the benefits of the country club and the amazing life of the people who are members... Not exactly welcoming and understanding.

So if I were a rich man and left all of my possessions behind and lived on the street for a year as a homeless person, is the hypocrisy that I could go back to being rich or that I tried to see how someone else lives?

I think people, like our homeless kids» friends, are just hungering for a place where they can hang out and discover their own hearts, their own lives, their own paths, free from criticism and judgment and condemnation.

If you live in a larger town or city, you may want to contact some of your local homeless service agencies and ask if the people you see on the corners are really homeless or are professional panhandlers.

I live in Australia & have been working with homeless people for quite a while now.

You do nt have to save the world or even save one homeless person to save lives.

If you live in a small town and know that the people on the street corners are really homeless, your plan should work.

A controversial life - size statue of Jesus depicted as a homeless person has become a permanent fixture near a church in Scotland.

If it is possible for the Irish People to adjudicate by ballot on this question, why might we not in the future deliberate similarly on the right to life of the elderly, the homeless, the Travellers, or the mentally ill?

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

When Wendy and I were living in Chicago, there were numerous homeless people on the streets asking for money.

The homeless people they meet and the response of those people to a simple gift and a little love and kindness given in the name of Jesus makes an impression unparalleled by any sermon or what - have - you that they have yet encountered in life.

Almsgiving is a duty of charity, a commendable spiritual practice along with prayer and fasting, and a means for us to win friends in eternity, whether by giving money to organisations or individuals who carry out the corporal works of mercy — saving the lives of pre-born babies by supporting pro-life work, feeding the hungry by the alleviation of famine, sheltering the homeless, welcoming the stranger, or the spiritual works of mercy, such as having Masses offered for people who are sick or in particular need, or those who have died and the souls in purgatory.

For example, what to do with the homeless person who lives under a bush, doesn't bathe often and has a problem with alcohol and drugs.

About 300 homeless people are living in the tunnels and drain system underneath Las Vegas, surviving off of the excess and garbage created by those above ground.

This leads to the suggestion that in cases in which a homeless alcoholic seems to have even an embryonic desire for help, it may be wise to discuss the matter with an AA member who has himself lived on Skid Row, rather than referring the person directly to the Salvation Army.

A controversial life - size statue of Jesus depicted as a homeless person has become a permanent fixture... More

Under that model, the life of a popular member of a congregation is worth more than the life of a homeless person in His eyes.

The comparison I like to make is to the incredible shopping malls we have in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, a few blocks away from where homeless people are living on the street.

I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.

Today this would include the homeless, the hungry, the imprisoned, the ignorant, the illiterate, any who are economically, environmentally and politically disadvantaged, the elderly, the sick, people in developing nations whose lives may be negatively affected by our own nations» economic policies, and those whose lives are threatened by sexism, racism and abusive ideologies.

Its hungry and homeless wanderers often are mentally ill people who have been prematurely released from state - run mental institutions — not dangerous enough to be locked away, but not well enough to live without the emotional and physical support which few people seem capable of offering them.

I lived in the heart of downtown Atlanta for several years and knew many homeless people.

I should also make it clear that I don't befriend all homeless people, just the ones I pass on a regular basis because I feel like it's my duty as a human to extend any act of kindness I can — whether it's a big ass grin or a cup of coffee or an hour long conversation on aforementioned bench in the dead of winter — to the people who appear in my life more days than not.

What's left outside the ecstasy of celebration is people breaking bottles, throwing up, and being aggressive to the homeless people in a city that a lot of them don't live in.

January was a great month for 100 homeless people in Boston who are now living in permanent supportive housing thanks to the generosity of The Pine Street Inn.

Hopelink empowers homeless women, children, and families to reclaim their lives by providing stability and helping people gain the skills and knowledge they need to exit poverty for good.

This bastard deserves to be homeless the way he treats other people and their lives.