Word: homelessness
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...Volvo hard on its side. Suddenly superstitious, they never wrote anything down again. They told me this as we walked toward an outdoor café in New Orleans’ French Quarter, ruled at the time by a bizarre economic love triangle. Tourists shared the space equally with the homeless, drunk, and destitute, who entertained them to get by; meanwhile, dozens of missionaries in bright orange shirts roamed the streets, handing out hygiene packets to the homeless, and occasionally looking at bead-festooned tourists like they’d be happy to say a prayer for them...
Noero thinks of what might have happened to her apartment at Willow Street and Nashville Avenue, a blue-gray shotgun house that stands not on a foundation, but stilts. Before Katrina, there had been a small front stoop for sitting, a leaky roof, worn wood floors, and five homeless cats, she said. She hasn’t seen anything of it since she left...
...Yard only when Radcliffe students did, long after Harvard men’s groups had claimed their spaces. A Women’s Center, with computers and bookshelves, would give women leaders freedom from using their own dorm rooms as office space; a common practice of currently homeless organizations. Women and their allies could use the Center to network with one another, collaborate on important projects, create useful connections for future careers, and generate a forum of open debate on gender and its importance in the Harvard community. The social component of the Center is invaluable as well, because even...
Then we came to Camp Street. Around the corner from the intellectual chatter, there was a place where I had reported, a homeless shelter...
...have workers that are facing tough times,” he said. “We have a couple of workers who became homeless, and this is a situation created by Harvard...