Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After reading about Rudd W. Coffey's homeless exploits, I ran right out and borrowed a wheelchair from University Health Services and sat in it for about two hours. It was a demeaning experience. First of all, it's almost impossible to get around in all this snow and people wouldn't help me; they looked right through me as if I weren't there. Plus, it's impossible to eat lunch at Quincy House--too many stairs. I had to get out and walk up them. I learned from the humiliation I had to go through, the loss...
...Homeless persons interviewed in the Square yesterday had mixed reactions to the program...
...organizers of Spare Change newspaper, written and sold by members of Cambridge's homeless community, said they are working with Harvard Square area businesses and with Store 24 to develop a new system of giving. Customers would purchase books of coupons worth 25 cents each, which they could then give to sidewalk solicitors...
...Homeless advocates had both praise and criticism for the program...
James Birge '95, who runs the University Lutheran shelter for Phillips Brooks House, said he supports the program as long as it can provide homeless people with an opportunity to purchase necessities...