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...deadly disease or cleansing a polluted ocean or handing out hope to the poor. But it turned out to be a nettlesome problem, for homelessness is not the same as houselessness. Each disaster has its own genealogy; the problems of the street people only begin with the need for shelter. Perhaps that is because homelessness is a symptom of every other social ill: drugs, crime, poverty, teenage pregnancy, illiteracy, violence, even the decline of compassion during the me-first...
Though they were never supposed to become a part of the landscape, the temporary shelters soon began to look like permanent poorhouses. Architects studied how to build better shelters; interior decorators worked to beautify them. The late Mitch Snyder, the ubiquitous crusader, created a vast Washington shelter that was considered a model of its kind. "It is the best shelter in the world," he once said of his creation, "but it is an abomination and should be destroyed...
...Every shelter may be an abomination in theory, but many were in fact as well. Half the people residing for more than two years in New York City shelters test positive for tuberculosis. Men sleep with their shoes wedged under the legs of the cots so they won't be stolen. At least one-third of all homeless women have been raped. "You don't get to sit and relax when you're homeless," says Catherine, 62, a homeless woman in Seattle. "God help your behind while you're out there...
Other cities were having the same experience, until it became impossible to sustain the illusion that all a pregnant, crack-addicted teenage prostitute with AIDS needed was a place to call home. From that admission was born the concept of linkage. Rather than merely providing a shelter, homeless advocates are weaving a web. By combining detoxification programs, job training, day care, parenting classes, health care and social services under one roof, they can help the street people who are unwilling or unable to travel all over town to find the services they need -- if those services exist...
...other hand, terrorists require shelter, a place where they can be trained, a country, a state that will help in smuggling their weapons and giving them passports. Eastern Europe is no longer a shelter. If we manage to stop certain states from performing this role, terrorism will decline...