Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elite working closely with American capital, an economy based on the extraction of raw materials and exploitation of cheap labor. In 1969, two-thirds of the Chilean people lived on less than $2 a day; 600,000 children had brain damage from malnutrition; 350,000 Chileans were homeless; 300,000 unemployed. And the copper companies continued to extract profits--$9 billion since 1900. Small wonder, then, that every worker interviewed in the film understands the meaning of U.S. involvement in the economy...
...there is no place for the displaced to go, the homeless urban working people--often unemployed--cannot run to the suburbs. Most float on the rough seas of an already turbulent housing crisis, landing in worse conditions or waiting to enter the hell of projects like Columbia Point, Bromley Heath, and D Street. Politicians and city planners have found no suitable solutions, often not even recognizing the existence of the "secondary effects" of urban "improvements"--the homelessness of the poor, who are forced to find alternative forms of housing when the class composition of a neighborhood is upwardly transformed...
...Palestinians are unrecognized-the homeless, the stateless-and so it is recognition of the Palestinians that counts at this time. The answer is: I cannot answer now. When we come to this stage, I will answer...
...estimated the number of wounded at 10,500, including 2,500 who were still hospitalized. The 20-second quake, which registered 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by 20 minutes of reverberations, had wiped out about 20,000 houses and apartments, leaving at least 18,000 families homeless...
...short a five-nation tour of Africa and hastily summoned a meeting of Rumania's Political Executive Committee. The group decreed a state of emergency, requisitioned food stocks, shut off all gas mains in the capital, and closed the university, presumably to create temporary shelter for the homeless and wounded. Troops cordoned off major portions of the downtown area to protect people from falling masonry, and possibly to prevent looting. Sports stadiums in the city were converted into makeshift hospitals, and more than 50 American medical students in the country were among those pressed into relief service...