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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 ...
After bitter cold, heavy snow, and three likely hypothermia deaths, homeless outreach workers are aiming to bring people inside overnight. In bitter cold, Milwaukee's homeless find shelter at St ...
Without Walker's Point Youth & Family Center, Milwaukee will be down to eight emergency beds for homeless and runaway youth.
Housing First is an approach that offers permanent, affordable housing as quickly as possible for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, and then provides the supportive services and connections to the community-based supports people need to keep their housing and avoid returning to homelessness.
The Milwaukee Rescue Mission has occupied the Central Campus at the corner of 19th and Wells Streets since 1986. Prior to that, the shelter was located in a building near the BMO Harris Bradley Center. The City of Milwaukee claimed eminent domain over that property, which served as a parking lot for the arena. In 2015, the organization acquired ...
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley announced an infusion of state funding to help rehabilitate the county’s first building for emergency housing for homeless individuals.
The City and State agreed to provide board and shelter to all homeless men who met the need standard for welfare or who were homeless by certain other standards. By 1983 this right was extended to homeless women. In March 2013, the New York City Department of Homeless Services reported that the sheltered homeless population consisted of: [227]
Within hours of the Journal Sentinel's story, an anonymous donor pledged to match every donation the youth shelter receives up to $100,000. Community support may save this Milwaukee emergency ...