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Mark Stinson

This is a guest post from my friend, Mark:

Hello,I’m Mark Stinson I was once a Homeless man here in Greensboro,N.C.. But now I’m living in and Oxford house and I’m sober an Off the street’s. Thank’s to the Help from my now Loving friend’s and family of StreetWatch G-Boro.. I’m also a memember,and love speaking on behave of Them and homelessness. If I can be of any help please let me know. mstinson60@yahoo.com Thank You!

Mark is also on Facebook. And he appears in this Fox8 video on Facebook (no longer available on Fox8 site). The woman who appears in that video is also housed now.

Read more on Guest post: Mark, no longer homeless in Greensboro…

FOX8’s Roxanna Haynes came along with me and Derek Dunham on StreetWatch.

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From Mark Horvath at InvisiblePeople.tv:

“Brutal and senseless.”

This is how Cotton describes homelessness. It might just be the most succinct and heart-breakingly accurate explanation I’ve heard in a long time.

Read more on Video of Cotton: 16 years homeless & disabled, “Brutal and senseless”…

Jimmy is 69 years old. He’s worked all his life, and is a military veteran, but now, at retirement age, he is living in a tent in the woods.

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Read more on Video: Jimmy, homeless in Greensboro…

Mark Horvath met Cliff in Vegas, first stop on the InvisiblePeople.tv Road Trip.

Cliff from InvisiblePeople.tv on Vimeo.

Mark brings the InvisiblePeople.tv Road Trip to Greensboro in August. Stay tuned.

On Friday night, May 15th, hundreds of area youth are expected to sleep outside at Grace Community Church on Lee Street to raise awareness of homelessness, in an event sponsored by New Jerusalem Cathedral (see video). They will sleep in safety, protected by Greensboro police officers, on the same grounds that church leaders voted to post with “no trespassing” signs last year, in response to large numbers of homeless people sleeping on the property.  Irony.   (Grace also housed dozens of women inside this year, in a winter emergency shelter.)

Read more on Awareness-raising teens to sleep outside where homeless can’t…

Homeless Concerned About Cuts March On City Hall
Source: www.wxii12.com

GREENSBORO — Several of Greensboro homeless residents are calling on the City Council to continuing funding agencies that provide assistance. Tuesday, April 21, 2009…

» full story, with video, on WXII

Read more on WXII: Homeless Concerned About Cuts March On City Hall…

The Soloist, a film starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr., telling the story of real-life cello prodigy who leaves Juilliard after developing schizophrenia and ends up homeless on Skid Row in L.A., opens on Friday, April 24th.

Read more on The Soloist: Life Has A Mind Of Its Open…

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“Habitat On Wheels (HOW) is an ongoing effort by Mobile Loaves & Fishes to effectively confront homelessness in Austin (Texas). HOW gets people off the street by providing them with recreational vehicle housing and the support they need to improve their circumstance.  This solution not only provides participants with housing, but also with a supportive community that is dedicated to helping them effect positive change in their lives.”

» More here: www.mlfnow.org/how.

Read more on Video: RV parks provide supportive housing in Austin…

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“Brianna is a 24 year old woman. For the past 12 days, she has lived with her dog in a small RV community in a Wal-Mart parking lot…” — Bri, from invisiblepeople.tv

Read more on Mobile homeless: 24-year old Bri in LA…

John from invisible people on Vimeo:

John | invisiblepeople.tv

Driving to Community Dinner at Grace, a train passed by on the bridge over my head at Fulton Street. I knew that James would be seeing it soon. It always makes me feel connected to him when I watch the trains go by on the way to the bridge where he lives.  (Same bridge Pete and Ricky used to live under.)  Later, downtown at the Green Bean, I stopped in the doorway on the way in to watch a train leaving the station, heading out of town, and again thought, “James will be seeing that train soon.”

Read more on Watching trains and thinking about James…