Sentences with phrase «more homeless people»

It's part of an effort to get more homeless people who have spent years on the streets into shelters and, eventually, into a permanent place to live.

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«I don't believe a progressive administration tolerates more homeless people on the streets than ever before,» he added.

«Many are seeing more homeless people on the streets and encountering more panhandlers.»

A Quinnipiac poll last month found 49 percent of voters said they have encountered more homeless people asking for money than a few years ago.

I wish we had more homeless people around here who appreciated food offerings, most times (even when I've bought for them) they shrug, and ask for money instead.

You may discover there are more homeless people in your town than you think.

Not exact matches

As well as the fatalities, the tremor also injured more than 6,000 people, made nearly 29,000 homeless, and caused an estimated $ 2 billion in damage, according to the government's latest tally.

There are challenges to this new system though: Moving to more advanced technology is great for middle class and wealthy people, but it threatens to further disadvantage the poor and homeless people trying to get around New York's already overpriced transit network.

They collect plastic grocery bags to create waterproof, recyclable mats to donate to the local homeless, and have hosted more than 65 food packing events to donate and package meals for local and international people in need.

Instead, it suggested homeless people were little more than «helpless pieces of privilege - extending human infrastructure,» as ReadWrite put it.

This means that every single person on this planet, from a newborn to the pre baby boomer generation, from the most advanced countries to the worst places on earth, from the top 1 % earners to homeless people have spent more than $ 3 on Apple products (and services) last year.

Even in the boom times, B.C. has developed a huge housing crisis with 15,000 or more people homeless.

Canada Report says indigenous people in Toronto are far more likely to be homeless, unemployed and hungry, Toronto Star

More than 17,000 working poor and homeless people throughout the Lower Mainland will receive blankets and warm clothing this winter thanks to donations collected during the 21st annual Realtors Care Blanket Drive.

According to researchers at McGill, using the data from the At Home / Chez Soi project, «Support services for homeless people with mental illness in Canada's biggest cities cost more than $ 55K a year per person on average.»

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

I look at our world - the unemployment rates, the homeless rates, the drug addiction rates, the degradation we do to our environment, and I don't exactly wish we had millions more people in my generation to add to the problems.

The head of the Church of England has said it's a church's duty to open its doors to homeless people... More

«If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation,» she said, «it is not because God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise — in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.»

The homeless and penniless on the streets and in the parks seem to know more about the grace of God and the love of Jesus than do most people in our churches!

After reading a couple of your blog postings on homeless, I have attempted to be more open to loving on the homeless in a way that would best represent Jesus which is a big step for me because I would normally be the person looking the other way assuming they were drunk or drugged.

The Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, representing 302 faith - based missions providing emergency services to disadvantaged groups, surveyed 20,000 homeless people and reported in November 2002 that more than 60 percent of those surveyed said they had more trouble finding work than they had six months prior.

Around the world, people are still struggling to come to terms with the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which have left more than 8,000 dead, thousands more missing and hundreds of thousand others homeless.

One homeless person that I helped is homeless no more and is back with his family.

Looking people in the eye, listening to what they have to say and making an intelligent response that lets them know we really heard what they were saying, not acting like we're in a hurry to move on but have time to listen, letting them know they are more important than our stupid cell phones, encouraging them and letting them know we think they can succeed — all of those things are extremely important in building relationships, including relationships with homeless people.

St. John the Baptist probably looked more like your neighborhood homeless person or your local Rasta stoner.

Just spent a lot more than that helping a homeless person get their vehicle out of impound.

«Everybody [homeless services] was saying to me, «If you could provide more emergency accommodation, that would help us in our job of getting people off the street.»

Apparently, people are much more likely to give money to a business man than they are to a homeless man.

According to the Kenya National Human Rights Commission, the violence led to more than 600,000 people being made homeless; and more than 1,100 killed.

Players build their personal statements using locations such as «foodbank», «local estate», «school», or «home»; different groups of people such as «homeless people», «my mates» «work colleagues» or «prisoners» and varying actions such as «visiting», «helping» or «baking», as well as more traditional interpretations of mission such as «preaching», «going» and «church».

It turns out, more people will give $ 0.50 to a business man than a homeless man.

I suppose it is because people believe that the homeless man is more likely to spend the money on alcohol or drugs than the business man.

«Occasionally I see a homeless person at an intersection begging for money but surely there can't be more than a few hundred homeless people in the entire city!»

How can we begin to help 10,000 homeless people and many more poor people in a large city?

I began noticing homeless people and being a grateful recovering alcoholic and drug addict myself I recognized that simply handing out cash would probably due more harm than good.

However, one thing that many do not see is that these posts on loving homeless people do get read a lot... often much more than posts on doctrine and theology.

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

A Christian charity that helps homeless people has expressed disapproval of a council leader's plan to... 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.

Nevertheless, Houston experienced a severe housing problem with half a million people paying more for housing than they could afford, a large homeless population and long waiting lists for public housing.

wow... «She buys shoes like bread» — i am wondering why do we have homeless people in a rich country like USA... and there are a good percentage of Americans who can not afford to buy lunch for their kids in school and many more...

Prisoners, refugees and the homeless are among more than 2,000 people invited to a circus being organised... more than 2,000 people invited to a circus being organised... MoreMore

People come together and share prayer requests for the neighbor lady whose husband is in the hospital, for the coworker who just got laid off, for the homeless people to find work, and for more people to start showing up for cPeople come together and share prayer requests for the neighbor lady whose husband is in the hospital, for the coworker who just got laid off, for the homeless people to find work, and for more people to start showing up for cpeople to find work, and for more people to start showing up for cpeople to start showing up for church.

So if these people aren't taken up in the rapture this Saturday, will they be renouncing God, and more importantly, will they attempt to become a drain on society now that they're broke, homeless and without jobs?

With more than 2 million people left homeless and 3 million in desperate need of emergency aid, the global community rallied to help Haitians back to their feet.

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.

If you are a homeless person huddling on a Michigan Avenue sidewalk in downtown Chicago on a nippy fall night, there is no more heartwarming sight than that of a change - dispensing, cigar - smoking man with a bushy mustache.

In Logan Square, where open space is scarce, the 3 - mile elevated Bloomingdale Line — now home to more than a handful of homeless people — has provided inspiration for bikers.