Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Apr. 5—The Anchorage Assembly is set to consider an ordinance that would place new restrictions on homeless camping and give the city more power to tear down encampments in some cases — and ...
At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. Last week, there were only 614 beds at ...
Jul. 26—The Anchorage Assembly has taken the final steps to open the former Golden Lion hotel as housing for roughly 80 vulnerable people who might otherwise be homeless. In two 10-1 votes ...
Museum of Homelessness; Najidah (Australia) National Alliance to End Homelessness, a nonprofit organization that promotes measures to end homelessness in the United States; National Coalition for Homeless Veterans; The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty; New York City Department of Homeless Services; Notting Hill Housing Trust; Top ...
The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 is a United States federal law that provides federal money for homeless shelter programs. [1] [2] It was the first significant federal legislative response to homelessness, [3] and was passed by the 100th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 22, 1987. [4]
Callers dial 1-800 (888 or 866)-FREE411 [373-3411] from any phone in the United States to use the toll-free service. Sponsors cover part of the service cost by playing advertising messages during the call. Callers always hear an ad at the beginning of the call, and then another after they have made their request.
Aug. 23—Anchorage homelessness providers are sounding alarms over impending cold weather and the fact that the city does not yet have a plan for winter shelter — and that the current timeline ...
In 1983, the National Citizens Committee for Food and Shelter was established to meet the emergency needs of the homeless population. In 1987, the Committee determined that a more comprehensive approach was necessary and created the National Alliance to End Homelessness. [1]