Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cohorts were the only New York shareholders in the bridge (Brooklyn was a separate city--the third largest in the country--until 1897). At the wedding of Tweed's daughter, his millionaire friends gave her $100,000 in gifts. New York's "permanent floating population of homeless children, beggars, petty thieves, and prostitutes." McCullough continues, "was said to be perhaps 100,000." Clearly something had gone wrong...
Chris and his mother barely escaped with their lives last February when a badly constructed coal-slag dam gave way and unleashed 130 million gallons of seething water on the mining communities of Buffalo Creek, W. Va., killing 125 and leaving 4,000 homeless (TIME, March 13). Chris was carried to high ground by his father, but his two sisters were swept from their mother's arms and drowned. Last week, seven months after the disaster, much of the physical havoc caused by the flood had been repaired, but the psychological damage to hundreds of families like the Hopsons...
...sufferers, the West Virginia department of mental health has set up a field headquarters in Buffalo Creek Valley. Instead of waiting for clients to come to the office, mental AP health aides ring doorbells throughout the area, especially in the 13 Government trailer camps where 2,200 of the homeless are trying to pick up the thread of their lives. Wary of social workers and psychiatrists, many residents at first deny that they feel stunned or disoriented by their tragic losses. Then, often as the visitors are just about to leave, the survivors hesitantly mention that they have been having...
...families still left homeless in the Wyoming Valley, only 7,100 have been housed by HUD. Some remain camped in the evacuation center an hour out of town. Others are living in the partially damaged second floors of their houses, without water or electricity. Most are still with friends or relatives in quarters so cramped that they are fast breeding enemies. The elderly were the hardest hit. Almost a third of those affected were over 55. Many are living in hotel rooms until HUD can move them into mobile homes or new apartment buildings that have been designed for them...
...cannot wait until an election. Unless the American people end the war now, tens of thousands of unnecessary victims will be killed, wounded or rendered homeless between now and the inauguration of the next President." So saying, five women and nine men began a "fast for life" last week at New York Theological Seminary in Manhattan, where they will live during the vigil. The fasters will take nothing but water for an "indefinite period," hoping to inspire a "new stage of resistance" among Americans. The 14 included familiar peace-movement veterans (David Dellinger, former Benedictine Monk Paul Mayer), younger recruits...