by Cecilia Blanford | Nov 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
This year’s Memorial Service took place on Sunday, November 14th, at 6:58am CT. City: Austin, TXLocation: At the Homeless Memorial & Tree of Remembrance located on Auditorium Shores at South 1st Street and Riverside Drive. It is just 75 yards...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Coming up next week, November 14-21, is National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, observed throughout the country. In Austin, Texas, the week starts off with the Homeless Memorial Sunrise Service, an opportunity for friends and anyone who cares to pay their...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
This is the official publication day for Looking Up at the Bottom Line: The Struggle for the Living Wage! by Richard R. Troxell, from Plain View Press. Troxell is in Philadelphia, visiting at the University of Pennsylvania, where the School of Social...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today’s interesting person is Maria Foscarinis, Founder and Executive Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, who says, […] I’ve spent the past 20 plus years working for policies to prevent and end homelessness in America. In my...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
When dog bites man, it isn’t news. But when man bites dog, that’s news. Fresh examples of this old saying appear every day. For instance, if you saw a headline that seemed to mean a sheriff was halting evictions, you would think it was a misprint, right?...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Here is a news item by reporter Jack Encarnacao, about a body found in Quincy, Massachusetts. The deceased was assumed to be a person experiencing homelessness: A 47-year-old man thought to be homeless was found dead in a Quincy Center alley. The...
