Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sabahs' vision of a modern city-state required land expropriation -- an action that normally leaves individuals poorer but that the Sabahs contrived as a wealth spreader. After a straight-up appraisal of land and homes, people were compensated at rates that often surpassed five times market value. The newly "homeless" pocketed most of the money, since they were given low-interest loans to build new houses and were granted land that had previously been used by grazing sheep and goats...
...always the physical part of homelessness that is hard: home and homelessness are also ideas, emotions, metaphysical states. Home is all the civilization that a child knows. Home is one of nature's primal forms, and if it does not take shape properly around the child, then his mind will be at least a little homeless all its life...
...sees about 50 people each night. Since the program started in 1988, workers have made 7,000 face-to-face contacts with more than 1,000 teenagers. They have distributed 100,000 condoms along with thousands of dignity packs. "Planned Parenthood realized there was a population out there of homeless, runaway, throwaway youths who are totally forgotten," says Liz Russo, 28, Street Beat program director. "A lot of them haven't chosen to be there, and they are entitled to a whole range of services that they are not aware of. It's important that they get these services...
...former Skid Row hotel, rehabbed and reopened two years ago as a rescue mission for homeless mentally ill people. The very design of the building reflects its treatment approach. Staff offices are scattered throughout the facility to avoid any sense of official hierarchy. Glass panels enable staff to see most areas without having to enter them. Traditionally, mental-health programs separate the most severely disturbed from others; as a patient's condition improves, he must move to a new building, new doctors, a new community. But shuttling between clinics can take its toll. "Change is really disruptive in these people...
NATION: How to help the homeless...