At the time they began dreaming up Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day (HPMD) and hoping to make it the real annual occasion it has since become in about 100 U.S. cities, a group of New Yorkers gathering [...] Continue Reading
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Everybody Is a Star Rising Above Their Social Condition
Some homeless man says, “You label me, you negate me,” echoing the premier Existentialist, Søren Kierkegaard. He articulates, “You may be tempted to hate me for being homeless and since my [...] Continue Reading
Remembering Unhoused People Who Died on the Streets
In the mid-1980s—at the start of the country’s current wave of homelessness—advocates in Philadelphia and New York City set aside one day a year to remember the people who died homeless there. They [...] Continue Reading
Lack of Toilets for Homeless a Public Health Crisis
By age 40, Jack Sim had gotten rich off the construction industry in Singapore. (No, life “didn’t end” for him then.) At 41, he founded the restroom association in that sovereign nation-state that [...] Continue Reading
Remembering the Homeless on St. Patrick’s Day
Since the ’80s, a homelessness crisis has beset our country—your advice is? Yes, the limerick’s a mistake; human lives are at stake and need hearts and minds for what the price [...] Continue Reading
September 2003
You can read the .pdf version of the September 2003 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over [...] Continue Reading
July & August 2003
You can read the .pdf version of the July & August 2003 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your [...] Continue Reading
June 2003
You can read the .pdf version of the June 2003 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over the [...] Continue Reading
May 2003
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April 2003
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Mach 2003
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December 2002
You can read the .pdf version of the December 2002 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over [...] Continue Reading