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...cited figures from the National Alliance to End Homelessness estimating that the U.S. has 240,000 shelter beds, even though the number of homeless people in need on any given night is 800,000 people...
...woods, you have to carry all the essentials of life with you: food and water for sustenance, clothing for warmth and tarps for shelter. For that reason, carrying extraneous items—such as more than two pairs of underwear for five days—may be hazardous to your back. Out there, you’re independent. Everything you could ever need to survive is within arms reach as you trek down the trail. I feel independent and sturdy because I am supporting what I need to live with my two feet and the strength of my body...
...Gimme Shelter High-ranking Taiwanese civil servants often get free housing from the government. And when they retire, they frequently fail to move out. A ruling party legislator estimates that civil servants unlawfully occupy some $590 million-worth of government-owned real estate...
Once inside the country, says a Pentagon official in Iraq, "it's not hard for [infiltrators] to link up with fellow travelers." Sources inside the anti-U.S. resistance say foreign fighters have congregated west of Baghdad, in the conservative Sunni strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, where they receive shelter, food and weapons from local Islamic militants and members of the Fedayeen Saddam militia--though intelligence officials say there's no evidence of active collaboration between the outsiders and regime loyalists...
...answered the doorbell, and there they were, right in front of my face." ZAIDAN NASIRI, Iraqi businessman and friend of Saddam Hussein's, on finding Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay standing on his doorstep asking for shelter--which he provided for 24 days...