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For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
Moms 4 Housing is an ad hoc [13] collective of homeless and marginally housed Oakland-born women. [10] Two of its founding members, Dominque Walker and Misty Cross, were the moms who first moved in to the Magnolia Street house. [10] Buzzfeed News reported in December 2019 that Tolani King and Jesse Turner were also members of the group. [9]
A homeless mother and her child; The U.S. A homeless woman in Washington, D.C. When the UN declared the world “Homeless Crisis” in the mid 1980s, it set the stage for the politicized “feminization of poverty” discourse that had developed from initial research efforts on female poverty and homelessness. [8]
As homelessness explodes, so does the number of pregnant mothers living on the streets. Street medicine doctors offer them a chance to have healthy babies — and perhaps keep them.
This is true especially of homeless mothers like Crespo, who has been using hard drugs for nearly two decades but is desperate to get clean so she can reconnect with her four living children; they ...
The Fresh Start program, a resource center and emergency shelter for homeless families operated by Lebanon County Christian Ministries, will become a partner with WellSpan Health's Arches to ...
In 2013, the organization expanded its transitional living program with the opening of Hope House, a new housing unit for homeless single mothers and their children. In the Faith House and Hope House programs, vulnerable young families receive resources and support to help them transition to financial independence and self-sufficiency in two years.
Exclusive: Cramped conditions are so bad that families are using beds to eat dinner on and children are doing homework in the toilet, Shelter has warned