Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walking down the streets of New Bedford in the early evening, one sees no such vibrancy. In place of the drills and dump trucks, the streets are lined with boarded-up shop windows and occupied by the wandering homeless and jobless...
HOWIE VOGEL, 47; NEW YORK CITY; social worker A self-proclaimed "cultural warrior," he spent 15 years homeless, in and out of mental-health institutions. As the executive director of Double Trouble, he's on the other side of the examining table. Each year the 12-step program aids hundreds of people who are carrying the dual burden of psychiatric illness and narcotics addiction. To Vogel those he counsels are "not just patients but people I actually identify with...
...civil war that is overwhelming the beautiful province of North Kivu in eastern Zaire. Eclipsed until recently by the scale of the killing in neighboring Rwanda and Burundi, the region is boiling over in a conflict that has left up to 50,000 dead and more than 350,000 homeless, 100,000 in the past two months. Thousands of civilians, mostly Tutsi, continue to stream across the border into Rwanda and Uganda...
Combining his interest in music and public service, Kirshner participated in the PJA's Bread and Jams project, which mixed student musical performances with meals for the homeless...
...very worried about the tenants who might find themselves homeless on December 31 [when rent control is lifted]," said Vice Mayor Kathleen L. Born. "They may become clients of Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services...