Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five days of relentless Caribbean storms left more than 150,000 people homeless amid billions of dollars in damage. Huge swaths of the northern coast, where Venezuela's chief ports and tourist resorts lie, are now uninhabitable. The devastation was doubly crushing because Venezuela is suffering one of its worst recessions ever. Decades of foul politics played just as large a role in this catastrophe as the week of foul weather. Venezuela has the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and is America's No. 1 foreign source of crude. But because a corrupt elite, los cogollos (slang for big shots...
...already started moving homeless people from shelters around the capital out to seven military camps, where they're being put up in barracks and told to make new lives," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "But despite the incentives he'll offer in terms of jobs and housing, many people won't want to be moved away from the city." Though government reconstruction efforts will be helped by the fact that prices are rising for the country's premier cash cow, its oil industry (which is largely unaffected by the flooding), persuading citizens to move away from urban...
...Many homeless advocates believe that too little attention is being paid to an important contributing factor--the gentrification of inner-city real estate, which has all but eliminated low-cost housing in recent years. In New York City, 216,000 households are on the waiting list for federally subsidized affordable housing. "It will take more than 50 years to empty that list," laments Patrick Markee, an analyst for the Coalition for the Homeless...
...meantime, homeless advocates hope the hard-line attitudes will start to soften. When a lawyer representing New York City pleaded with a judge for a resolution of the work-for-shelter issue by Dec. 22, Justice Elliott Wilk demurred: "I don't think you really have to implement this for Christmas." The question is whether that holiday spirit will last beyond the New Year...
...JACKSON, JEREMIAH M. LUCEY, PAUL A. BROTHERTON and JOSEPH T. MCGUIRK, fire fighters who were killed in a warehouse blaze; as heroes, by President Clinton and more than 20,000 fire fighters from around the world; in Worcester, Mass. The fire may have been accidentally sparked when a homeless couple allegedly knocked over a candle...