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After my daughter died I also spent a long time homeless, living under an overpass in a kind of profound state of zombie grief and loss that some of us encounter along the way.
You know, homeless people are some of our most heroic misfits, because they start out as us.
You can be a drunk, you can be a survivor of abuse, you can be an ex-con, you can be a homeless person, you can lose all your money or your job or your husband or your wife, or the worst thing of all, a child.
We were on welfare, sometimes homeless, many times hungry.
He was at the top of his dental school class, and alongside Yusor and Razan, was involved in local and international community service projects dedicated to the homeless and refugees, including a dental relief trip they were planning for Syrian refugees in Turkey.
Razan, at just 19, used her creativity as an architectural engineering student to serve those around her, making care packages for the local homeless, among other projects.
They've even been killed being homeless while black.
They design for everyone, from their grandmother in a wheelchair to the homeless woman they see sleeping in the park.
My environment consisted of living with family, friends, and homeless shelters.
He works with the homeless every day.
We have a program called "Albuquerque Heading Home," a Housing First model where we house the chronically homeless, and when I told my community we wanted to do that differently, I said there's a smart way to do the right thing.
I'm interviewing a gentleman who's homeless, like we do, getting his information, figuring out where he's from, how he got there, what we can do to help him.
Since I took over as mayor, we've been able to reduce the chronic homeless population in our city by 40 percent.
Students from low-income, often single-parent households, students who have been homeless, incarcerated or perhaps undocumented, or some who have struggled with substance abuse or lived through violent or sexual trauma.
We meet the community right where they are, and we've done everything from divert gang violence in real time to help find people jobs to mentoring homeless youth.
Millions of my people, including me and my family, were displaced and homeless.
Not just for the homeless; 20 percent of this country is on Medicaid.
So Anne then found herself on the streets and in and out of homeless shelters, and it's here where she started using drugs and alcohol to numb this pain she felt inside.
Today, Atlanta is using this to address housing issues for their homeless population.
The court becomes a place you can go to for assistance, like the 60-something-year-old schizophrenic homeless woman who was in distress and fighting with the voices in her head, and barges into court, and screams, "Judge!
So to make that determination, we decided to create a pilot, and Keta was one of the 17 chronically homeless individuals we included in this pilot.
Our homeless population falls into three major categories: those that are temporarily homeless, about 75 percent; those that are episodically homeless, about 10 percent; and those that are chronically homeless, about 15 percent.
Chronic homelessness is defined as an unaccompanied adult who has been continuously homeless for a year or more or more than four times homeless in three years that totals 365 days.
This small 15 percent of the homeless population can consume 50 to 60 percent of the homeless resources available in a community.
In 2005, we approved a 10-year plan, and 10 years later, in 2015, we reported a reduction in our chronic homeless population of 91 percent statewide.
It was through that lens that I would see homeless people.
During that employment, I had the opportunity to be loaned out to the state's largest homeless shelter to assist them in developing and improving their financial and management capabilities.
While there, I became aware of a new approach to dealing with homeless individuals and drug addicts.
First was this small population of the homeless group that was 15 percent and were very expensive.
There had been an agency in New York City that had been inviting mentally ill homeless individuals to move directly from the street into housing.
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