Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles away. The cold was kinder to many others of the capital's 10,000 or so homeless. When the icy weather kept home Inaugural partygoers, several of the hosts, including a bank and a law firm, donated their uneaten goodies to the poor. Outside a Washington shelter for the homeless, ragged street people gaped as a purple van from Ridgewell's ("caterers to the elite") pulled up and tuxedoed waiters hopped out to unload leftover canapes, whole hams, mounds of crab claws, shrimp and quiche. That night at the shelter, 1,000 homeless dined like lobbyists. Though the gesture...
...Federal Emergency Management Agency, which normally handles crises like the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The money, funneled to local governments and charities such as the United Way and the Salvation Army, is "only a Band-Aid," concedes Mark Talisman, member of the National Board of Emergency Food and Shelter...
State and local governments are all wrestling with the problem, with varying levels of cash and conviction. New York City now spends $173 million a year, up from $14 million in 1978. But the number of homeless individuals seeking shelter has grown too, from 2,000 a day in 1978 to 7,400 a day now, in part because of an apartment shortage so severe that there is a ten-year waiting list for public housing. Since the $270-a-month housing allowance from welfare will not cover the cost of a New York apartment, the city absurdly winds...
...People must address the question of whether human beings in the U.S. have a right to better shelter than a dumpster," says Gary Blasi, a Los Angeles lawyer for the homeless. In Washington, Homeless Advocate Snyder managed to get a referendum passed "guaranteeing adequate overnight shelter," which if approved by Congress could make the city responsible for housing 5,000 to 15,000 people a night. Because last week's freeze served to focus national attention, Snyder said, "we were rooting for the cold." He is afraid, though, that the homeless may soon be conveniently forgotten, returning to their semivisible...
...first actual disciplining took place in Los Angeles, where Catholic welfare officials were instructed to cease referring anyone to a shelter for the homeless run by Signer Judith Vaughan...