Word: shelterer
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...consumer dollars in America -- especially the discretionary dollars. If that is not power, and privilege, what is? An extraplanetary visitor, scouting a report for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy perhaps, might look at the evidence of their lives (the myriad labor-saving devices, the opulent food and shelter, the sheer abundance of choices that most of the rest of the world desperately envies) and come to the conclusion that white middle- and upper-middle-class American women -- from whose ranks the majority of militant feminists arise, the ones who call themselves "womyn" to keep the hated syllable...
...gave her resentment, she gave me love. I gave her anger, she gave me understanding," said Arthur J. Watson, a former client of the shelter...
Former Director of the University Lutheran Shelter Katya E. Fels '93 calls the failure of existing social services to aid people like Sullivan "the eternal question of homelessness...
According to Fels, the current shelter system perpetuates homelessness for many people. Emergency shelters, the most common type, only allow clients to stay a maximum of three nights. After that, they have to vacate for the following three nights before becoming eligible to return again...
...circumstances of her homeless life are hazy, as she was an intensely private person who did not like to talk about herself or complain. She was reluctant to ever ask for help, and in her final days repeatedly refused medical treatment, according to friends and shelter workers...