Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paychecks have fallen so far behind spiraling rents that half the 13 million American families living in poverty are devoting a crushing 50% or more of their meager incomes to shelter. Higher up the social scale, the housing market is thwarting the dream of home ownership for additional millions of mostly young people. They remain in apartments because they cannot afford the high cash down payments and interest rates needed to buy a house. In fact, the U.S. has reversed a four-decade trend toward greater home ownership. The percentage of all households that own their homes, after climbing...
...project is a wonderfully big improvement over the days when the administration was putting bars over heating grates," said James Stewart, Director of the First Church Shelter. "I hope the administration will learn from the students...
...idea sparks interest among students, the project could begin to work with other shelters in the area, including the women's shelter, Vroomen said...
This effort was inspired by an already existing project at Dudley House, Vroomen said. Students of Dudley House cook and serve a meal bi-weekly for the same shelter. Through this program, Vroomen became acquainted with the residents of the shelter...
Expansion of the program is certainly possible, although not likely this year, Vroomen said. The men of the First Church Shelter form only a small portion of the total homeless population in Cambridge...