Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Ehlert (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $13.95). Children first learn arithmetic with their fingers. Then they look around for some new things to number. How about fish? Here, paper collages create a vast aquarium of imaginary underwater swimmers: one green, two jumping, three smiling, etc. The flipping, flashy, finny, skinny specimens help the volume live up to its subtitle, "A Book You Can Count...
...seem such an obvious prescription -- build housing, and then help people hold on to it. But it has taken a long time to strip homeless policy of its mythology. For years, whenever the congressional committees or the network-news programs took up the cause, they would call Robert Hayes, founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless, and put in an order for an intact white family recently evicted from a Norman Rockwell painting -- people, they said, with whom others could identify. Yet in cities like New York, such families account for less than 10% of the homeless population...
...emergency shelters seemed the surest and quickest way to get them off the streets. So most of the money allocated by Congress and by states went toward emergency, rather than preventive, care. Only rarely was there money for rental assistance, tenant-landlord mediation or short-term crisis loans to help the near homeless keep the roofs over their heads. Public money paid slumlords $2,000 a month to put up families in "welfare hotels." But this did nothing to ease the families' desperation, fight their addictions or restore their dignity. The emergency shelters grew up like weeds in the cities...
...sleep with their shoes wedged under the legs of the cots so they won't be stolen. At least one-third of all homeless women have been raped. "You don't get to sit and relax when you're homeless," says Catherine, 62, a homeless woman in Seattle. "God help your behind while you're out there...
...shelters, they discovered just how deeply scarred the victims were. In an effort to empty its disgraceful welfare hotels, New York City renovated old public housing and moved in homeless families. No one anticipated the invisible quarantine: shunned by their neighbors, the families had no sense of community, no help for the problems that had put them on the streets in the first place. Many parents still had no jobs, still drank too much, still beat their kids. Within a year, some of the buildings had been looted or burned, and drug dealers were moving in. At city- council hearings...