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...seniors will be leaving the protective shelter of high speed Internet access, subsidized software and pre-paid, door-to-door computer assistance...
...America on any given night. He later admitted that he'd made up the figure. A 1988 Urban Institute survey offered an estimate of 600,000 homeless; but after the 1990 Census, the General Accounting Office put the number at 300,000. A 1994 study examined computer data on shelter turnover rates from 1988 to 1992 and found that between 5 million and 7 million Americans had been homeless at one time or another during those years...
...authorities are willing even to surmise how many people are homeless. But many researchers believe the problem is no less acute than it was in the mid-1980s. The U.S. Conference of Mayors, which publishes an annual survey on hunger and homelessness in 30 cities, says demand for emergency shelter has increased every year since the survey began in 1985, including an 11% jump in 1998. The number of people counted in Boston's annual one-night homeless census rose 40% between 1988 and 1996. Minnesota's nightly shelter population quadrupled between 1985 and 1997, and in New York City...
According to Bolden, she and her four-month-old daughter were placed in a shelter in Springfield, Mass. and told they had to find their own way to get there if they wanted to claim the space...
Debbie, 21, lives in a shelter with her two children, ages two years and three months. She was recently approved for Section 8 housing assistance and is looking for a permanent residence. She has been on TAFDC for two years and will be leaving the rolls soon of her own accord...