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...future holds than they did in Christmases Past. In the real estate fantasylands of California and the Northeast, homeowners who think they live in a $300,000 house suddenly "lose" $80,000 when they try to sell. In Chicago out-of-work architects are invited to lunch at a soup kitchen for a bowl of chili and some free advice from colleagues who have survived previous recessions. Washington hairdressers report that business is down: in hard times, people let it grow. And as long as the nation is stuttering toward war, there is no predicting when the job market will...
Best New Dining Concept One of the earliest harbingers of economic recession wasn't longer lines at soup kitchens. It was the sight of trendy restaurants frantically begging for new customers by lowering prices, simplifying menus and advertising themselves as -- code words of the '90s -- cafes, grills, bistros or trattorias...
When the street people first appeared in force a decade or so ago, they inspired shouts of dismay and calls for action. Cities hurriedly opened shelters; churches converted their basements into temporary dormitories; soup kitchens doubled their seating capacity. When the problem only grew worse, city officials across the nation sought to drive beggars from their tunnels and parks and public doorways. The homeless became targets; sleeping vagrants were set afire, doused with acid and, in a particularly horrific attack in New York City last Halloween, slashed with a meat cleaver. Finally came resignation. After years of running hurdles over...
Finally, perhaps the single greatest source of help for the homeless comes from volunteers. Frustrated, angry, ashamed that a country so wealthy should ignore such poverty, volunteers give money and their time to manning the soup kitchens, supervising the church basements at night, distributing information, teaching reading, running clothing drives. In the process, they are learning invaluable lessons about what works and what does not. For example...
...Have services, will travel. Even if social services are available, many homeless people cannot or will not use them. So more and more cities are mobilizing their resources. Food vans carry soup and sandwiches to the bridges and parks. Boston's Health Care for the Homeless program sends nurses out knocking on doors in family shelters, offering parents and children preventive health care...