Word: shelterer
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Although it is man's nobility to be willing to die for democracy, the half billion are dying, not for democracy, but for want of food, medicine, and shelter which comes too late if it comes at all. And a third world war will mean, not a sacrifice for democracy, but our failure to freely choose to use our technology--unprecedented in its potential to bring benefits to the many and the distant--in a way that wins the hearts of the great majority of nations and the larger cultures which transcend the national boundaries...
...young New York lawyer fights to shelter the homeless...
...hotel frequented by his fellow street people, but he stayed only one night. "That's a hole," he says. "The one time I stayed there, they tried to set some guy on fire." Billy (he does not give his last name) spent most of last winter searching for shelter-in Penn Station, in the steam tunnels under New York City's streets, in abandoned buildings. Perhaps in this most vicious winter he would not have made it. There are an estimated 36,000 homeless men and women in New York City, and last winter at least 20 died...
...sleeping in a bed. He is warm and comparatively safe at night because a young lawyer named Robert Hayes saw the plight of the city's homeless and decided to do something. Because of his relentless efforts, the city now provides more than 3,500 homeless people with shelter each night...
Filed in the fall of 1979, the suit rested on New York State's constitutional responsibility to provide "aid, care and support of the needy." It was Hayes' maiden court appearance; the judge accepted his argument and ordered the city of New York to give shelter-meaning a bed-to anyone requesting it. Continuing to find conditions "pretty bad," he went back to court a year later, charging New York with dragging its feet and doing no more than "warehousing" the homeless. The city promised in a consent decree to carry out the earlier order. And last month...