Sentences with phrase «people living on the streets»

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

It's not about how big the numbers are once you're talking about real people living on the streets.

These aren't people living on the streets, and yet they're not so far from it, and they're always at risk of landing there.

Our original rationale for pairing homeless teenagers with shelter animals was our founder's observation that many young people living on the streets and under bridges had pets with them.

The nation's homeless population increased this year for the first time since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities.

The artist says of her recent collage work, «I tear apart and re-assemble pieces of newsprint images to create characters and habitat structures inspired by my observation of people living on the streets in New York City.

But most of them took one look at the country's most notorious neighbourhood — gorgeous but crumbling buildings, a crack - cocaine epidemic on top of a heroin problem, mentally ill people living on the streets — and shook their heads.

He continued that, «There are people living on the streets on New York who are homeless and Trump Couldn't see that...» he wondered.

Increase in Homeless Population An annual survey of homeless people living on the streets suggests that the population has increased just 6 percent over the past five years, but many argue it is undercounted.

Further, the false report could scare homeless people living on the streets out of coming into shelter for help, undermining both the city and state's efforts to get homeless individuals off the street.

Advocates for homeless people filed a complaint with New York City's Civil Rights Commission accusing the Police Department of targeting people living on the street, a practice they say violates a two - year - old law that prohibits «bias - based profiling.»

The prototype of the Woonfiets (living bike, or Housetrike) was designed and built by Bas Sprakel, a way of solving some of the pressing problems for people living on the streets, by providing a secure place to store their belongings, while also expanding to become a safe shelter at night.

When Baxter moved to New York City in the 1980s, she was surprised to find so many people living on the streets.

«Literally thousands of people living on the streets in tents, in full - time encampments in their downtown area.»

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

When asked about the visible expansion in the number of people living on the street, Mr. de Blasio would tout DHS's success in getting people out of shelters.

In São Paulo I visited a magnificent health clinic for low - income people that was sponsored by a Pentecostal church, and I visited another congregation that sends out 12 buses every night filled with members who offer soup and blankets to people living on the streets.

He worked closely with the Pacific Garden Mission and was instrumental in initiating the mental health association «s annual drive for coats in behalf of people living on the streets.

He recently announced plans to overhaul the Department of Homeless Services and increase the city's outreach to people living on the street.

The administration is in the midst of rolling out HOME - STAT, which will grant every person living on the street a social worker.

The Bronx homeless population has dropped significantly since 2005, when the city began its annual effort to count the population of people living on the streets.

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.»

3) I was saddened to see a number of people living on the streets or inside the Metro stations.

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.

The concept of the show revolves around the growing sense of tension that can currently be sensed in cities around the world and the ways it affect communities and people living on the street, which are Barry's eternal source of inspiration and a recurring motif in his works.

Community Connect has encouraged our people to develop relationships with our Community Partners across Australia by using their skills, resources and enthusiasm to seize opportunities which include climbing mountains with children with cerebral palsy, running skills workshops in women's prisons and serving hot drinks to people living on the street.

The center serves New York's most vulnerable residents with the goal of making legal services easily accessible to people living on the streets and in poverty.

This week, the city of Boston conducted its annual Homeless Census, during which teams of volunteers spanned the city and counted the number of people living on the streets, in shelters, or transitional housing.

Shaw has also delivered these items directly to people living on the streets in makeshift shelters and tents.

Many of the blankets, sleeping bags and coats we collect go to shelters and ministries who distribute them directly to people living on the streets.