Answer: It takes more than a home…
posted: November 16, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: homeless news, housing, housing first, stories
Question: “Can a home save the homeless?” That’s the title of Amanda Lehmert’s 11/16/2008 News & Record article on the housing support team program — an initiative to move chronically homeless people from the street into housing.
Vincent Sims used to sleep under the Lee Street bridge. He spent some of his Social Security money […]
God speaks to my homeless friend in the quiet of the night
posted: November 3, 2008 | category: faith, homelessness
tags: faith, homeless news, music, stories, video
I saw one of our homeless lady friends at breakfast this morning. She sleeps outside. I noticed right away that she looked really peaceful and beautiful this morning. She struggles with addiction, and that battle is usually evident in her appearance. But not today. I went to hug her and tell her how pretty she […]
Read More..>>Currently and formerly homeless helping homeless — and teaching me
posted: October 30, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: homeless needs, stories
Tonight was the Food Not Bombs dinner at the HIVE. A lot of the people who eat at the FNB dinners are homeless, and some are formerly homeless. Tonight, one of my formerly homeless friends came and brought her daughter. They went in the kitchen and got out the biggest serving bowls, […]
Read More..>>Formerly homeless helping homeless
posted: October 30, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: homeless needs, stories
I’m on the phone with one of my formerly homeless friends. He was out canning and dumpster diving this morning and he found a really nice blanket and a hooded sweatshirt. He gave it to a homeless guy who sleeps outside. (Like he used to.) A soda truck driver saw him picking up cans and […]
Read More..>>‘If it wasn’t for police, we’d freeze to death’
posted: October 28, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: downtown, homeless needs, homeless news, police, stories, winter shelter
Fox8 interviewed some of our homeless friends (Mississippi, Junior and Bobby) and one of the GPD cops we partner with (Tim Tepedino) about the freezing temperatures and the lack of shelter. (Story, video.)
Junior said:
“If it wasn’t for police officers coming down here helping homeless people right here, we’d be freezing ourselves to death.”
I’ve been bringing […]
Homeless helping homeless
posted: October 27, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: homeless news, stories
This weekend, I learned that a homeless friend got a temporary job with a catering company during furniture market, and that he’s been bringing home containers of leftover food and making up plates to feed other homeless people at night. I also saw another homeless friend ride up on a bike with plastic grocery bags […]
Read More..>>Homeless: Discharged to the street in Greensboro
posted: September 19, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: downtown, Food Not Bombs, free meals, Greensboro, homeless news, police, policy, stories, Ten Year Plan
On Thursday afternoon, I went by to see friends on the block, at Lee and Eugene, and to let them know about dinner at the HIVE. One of my friends asked for help for his friend, who had just gotten out of the hospital. He’d had major surgery, and then been discharged back to the […]
Read More..>>You can go home again: Kimberly finds her dad
posted: July 13, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: homeless news, lyrics, music, stories, video
Sometime in May, a homeless man named Mark Hoffman left his park bench near Friendly Shopping Center and Centenary United Methodist Church in Greensboro. His absence caused much concern to the many people who had grown accustomed to seeing him over the years, sitting on “his” bench or attending services at the church or […]
Read More..>>That guy on the bench at Friendly
posted: June 16, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: homeless news, stories
When I go and speak to groups about homelessness, one of the first questions I’m asked is:
“Do you know that guy on the bench at Friendly?”
His name is Mark, and he’s been called “the true face of homelessness” and “the most visible homeless person in Greensboro.” For residents who live, work or shop on the […]
Joseph’s House: Saving our sons from the street
posted: June 14, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: stories, video, youth
“This is not a sad story, this is a fairy tale. You better know it.”
[video link]
Joseph’s House is saving our sons from the street. Visit Joseph’s House online. Donate online to support the work of Joseph’s House, and help Miss Nancy save our sons and daughters.
Multimedia presentation by Carly Calhoun.
