From the Guilford County Task Force to End Homelessness web site:
Presentation of Guilford County’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness Read More
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners invites you to the presentation of the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness developed by the Guilford County Task Force on Ending Homelessness.
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T. Dianne Bellamy-Small, responding to a fellow City Council member’s allegation that she gave away too many free city bus passes:
“I gave the passes to schools in my district for parents who had no transportation to come see about their children. I gave them to agencies that had poor people who often ask staff for money to get back home like students at GTCC. I gave the passes to homeless people to encourage them to go to Welfare Reform or Workforce Development or to DSS to get help. I gave the passes to a teenage homeless shelter to encourage the teens to be independent to go look for a job and a drug treatment center. I requested 30 passes for staff and students at the A&T High School Summer Transportation Institute so that the students could experience our transit system and take a tour of the Depot. I gave 4 to a cancer patient who needed someone to ride the bus with her because she can not ride the bus by herself after her treatment. I gave the passes to people I saw standing in the rain or the hot sun waiting for the bus just to help. I asked nothing in return I did not even identify who I was because it is not about me.”
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For friends who left long ago, more recently, and those who may be going soon. Go rest. God bless.
My pastor, Bill Goans, has been preaching a series of sermons from the book of Revelation, entitled “What Jesus Thinks of the Church,” in which he talks about the attributes God wants to see in the Church — loving, truthful, holy, alive, accessible, dependent on Him. Today, Bill started off his message with a video called “Me Church,” which parodies our human, self-centered expectations of what “church” ought to be.
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It was painted across the doorway leading to a dirty and disheveled cellar where some of my homeless friends slept, in a house on Cedar Street. As I stood staring up at those words, my face must have registered the sadness I felt, because one of the guys laughed nervously and said, “It’s just a joke.” Maybe then. Not anymore.
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As we headed back to our cars around 2:00 a.m., after a night of street outreach, our NightWatch van rolled through the intersection of Lee and Eugene — “the block.” And then we saw them, on the sidewalk. People. Homeless people. Sleeping on the sidewalk. Outside the homeless shelter.
Read more on Homeless Sleep Outside Shelter…
In other news on politics and poverty, the San Francisco Chronicle reports on one of its blogs that presidential candidate John Edwards charged $55,000 to deliver a speech entitled “Poverty, the great moral issue facing America,” to students at the University of California at Davis.
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The week-long Congressional Food Stamp Challenge has ended:
“From May 15-21, 2007, U.S. Members of Congress will live on a food stamp budget. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average food stamp benefit is approximately $3 a day.
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The following notice of public hearing appeared in the News & Record, Monday, May 21, 2007:
PUBLIC HEARING
2007 -2008 CITY OF GREENSBORO
FUNDING FOR HOMELESSNESS PREVENTIONThe Greensboro City Council conducted a public hearing on May 1, 2007 and voted to submit the Dept. of Housing & Community Development’s (HCD) 2007-08 Annual Plan application to HUD. The application sets aside approximately $726,000 for programs and services to prevent homelessness. Roughly $520,000 of the set-aside was designated for a Request for Proposals (RFP) process for Greensboro member agencies of the Homeless Prevention Coalition of Guilford County. Greensboro’s Community Resource Board (CRB) invites comments from persons who responded to the RFP and from other interested persons during a public hearing scheduled for:
Read more on City To Hold Public Hearing On $726K Homeless Funds…
On March 29, 2007, the Guilford County Task Force to End (Chronic) Homelessness, of which I am a member, agreed on the final draft of our Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness for Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County. This was to be followed by a presentation to the City Councils of High Point and Greensboro and to the Guilford County Commissioners, and then a public presentation of the plan, to include dignitaries and “important people,” such as Philip Mangano, Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. (I also suggested that we invite some real, live homeless people.)
Read more on Tick Tock… Where’s Our Ten Year Plan?…
I haven’t posted much about homelessness lately. Some of that is because I’m holding off on the post I most want to write until I get clearance to do so. And also, I’m more disillusioned than usual with the “system” right now. But in the meantime, I thought I’d do a little shout-out and music video dedication to some of my (anonymous) readers who I hear are feeling uncomfortable with what I’ve been writing (and may write?) about homelessness in Greensboro. Here goes…
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