| The "New Start Center" is designed to give homeless individuals versatile programs to re-establish themselves in the community. The "Center" consists of living quarters, kitchen, bathing facilities, and a Social Services Department, for job training, and job placement. The cost to the taxpayers is minimal and the unit can be disassembled and relocated to central areas for more convenient accessibility.
Three Step Policy To Prevent Homelessness
(Homeless People's Congress, San Francisco)
- We must ensure that homeless people can actively participate in the development and implementation and polices that directly or indirectly impact homeless people.
- Eliminate temporary Band-Aid Solutions.
- All new housing should be developed, maintained and operated by homeless people paid a living wage and available for all homeless.
Homelessness
A home implies more than a roof. It also conjures up motions of family, good personal relations, satisfactory living conditions and a place in society. Being homeless, as well as being material deprived, means to be without a place in a community. It also alienates a person from vital links to the community.
Vital Homeless Facts:
- It is estimated that about One Billion People worldwide lack adequate housing.
- This includes roughly 100 million who are completely homeless.
- On any one night, it is estimated that 750,000 Americans will be without shelter.
- Contrary to popular belief, children account for 15% of the homeless population. Families with
children make up the fastest growing segment of homeless Americans. In addition, many
older children are alone and homeless, either runaways or "throwaways".
(Information-American Homeless Society)
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