Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last summer, for example, he helped change voter-registration laws in Philadelphia which disfranchised many of the homeless, particularly Black men. And with his Luce scholarship, he will work next year in Seoul for the Social Welfare Center at Chung An University...
Ninety percent of all women who are homeless were sexually abused as children or were raped, Fels says. She also says an unusually high percentage of homeless men were sexually or physically abused as children...
...core idea of Fels' shelter is to provide an all-female "safe place" for homeless women...
...tell some one they have to get counseling," Fels says, emphasizing the homeless person's right to choose or refuse counseling. "On the other hand, what you can do is provide them an atmosphere that is safe enough for them to deal with this stuff if they want...
...There's a whole segment of the population out there who aren't homeless, but they sure as hell don't have a home," Fels says. "They're people who run around from friend to friend, from relative to relative and crash on people's couches. And then those supports may give...