Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year and a half ago, Lee Hourhian found a way to help the increasing numbers of homeless in Cambridge who were the victims of institutional cutbacks...
Hourhian, who owns the Keenebunk Company--a private catering company which serves the Harvard Divinity School--founded a soup kitchen to provide a healthy meal for more than 100 homeless people every Tuesday night...
Hourhian emphasizes that the soup kitchen is different from ordinary homeless food programs. "It's more like a restaurant service than anything," she said. "We actually seat people who come in and serve them healthy, good food that isn't just institutional food...
...Churches couldn't agree on whether or not to sponsor such a program," she said. "Their congregations were concerned with the security problem involved with having homeless people served in a soup kitchen...
...similar candidates will run this fall in the Oakland mayoral race and legislative contests in Michigan and Maryland. A veteran welfare- rights lobbyist who earned a college degree in human-services planning, Stevens expects to be included in candidate debates and get equal radio and TV time. "We have homeless people fighting every day for food and shelter," she says. "Someone has to speak for them. That's what I intend...