Jeri Rowe writes about Gail Haworth, the coordinator for Greensboro’s homeless count, sponsored by the Homeless Prevention Coalition of Guilford County. Joseph Rodriguez took some photos during the count. And JR asks, “Are we doing enough to help the homeless?” Me? I missed the whole thing this year.* Home, sick. … > read more
Professor Wharton and Suzanne post about Glenwood. Dissonance.
I was packing a box of donated food the other day, to give to a homeless couple who are currently staying in a hotel, and I couldn’t find a lot of the kinds of things they needed. And I realized that people who donate food are probably just thinking “canned” … > read more
“They may be out there, but there’s not many of them out there… If you know where there’s a veteran sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately and we’ll make sure that man does not do it.” — Bill O’Reilly, “The O’Reilly Factor,” Fox News If anyone can give … > read more
For the past couple of weeks, the NightWatch team has been making a stop in the parking lot of a local hotel that is “home” for many folks who might otherwise be on the street. And a lot of them are back outside when their money — or someone else’s … > read more
From Yahoo News, emailed to me by an about-to-not-be-homeless-anymore (yay!) friend: “A judge on Thursday ordered a Salvation Army worker who stole a holiday kettle containing about $250 to spend the night homeless…” Oh, smack. Go, judge.
From Jen Bergman at National Network for Youth CHAMPIONS OF RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH RECEIVE NATIONAL HONORS VIRGIN MOBILE RECEIVES GOLDEN PEN AWARD REPRESENTATIVE RUBEN HINOJOSA AND XM RADIO NAMED “CHAMPIONS OF YOUTH†National Network for Youth Symposium Presents Awards on Tuesday, January 29 at Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC … > read more
Liz sat down with our friend Tim, who’s been homeless for about six years, and talked about his experience of homelessness in Greensboro. She transcribed the conversation on her blog. It’s at bottom of this post, and it starts like this: “It’s always the same story. If they didn’t have … > read more
Current and former tenants of Greensboro’s South Pointe Apartments are suing the owners and managers of the complex “for damages due to the Defendants’ failure to repair the premises and to put and keep them in a decent, safe and sanitary condition, while continuing to demand and collect rent from … > read more
Last Saturday, my son and I went along with a group of high schoolers from Westover Church to do street outreach to homeless people in downtown Greensboro. The teens distributed dozens of pairs of thermal underwear, bottled wear, snacks and toiletries in a parking lot at the corner of Lee … > read more