Word: withing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When the street people first appeared in force a decade or so ago, they inspired shouts of dismay and calls for action. Cities hurriedly opened shelters; churches converted their basements into temporary dormitories; soup kitchens doubled their seating capacity. When the problem only grew worse, city officials across the nation...
"Society lost faith that there were solutions," says Paul Grogan, president of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a source of funds and faith for grass-roots rescue efforts. A poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion shows that 75% of Americans believe the homeless problem will worsen or remain...
It may 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...
And who could know the truth anyway? Estimates of the number of homeless people have ranged from 300,000 to 3 million. There may never be an accurate national figure: for the first time, this year census takers tried to include the street people in their count, but some advocates...
So when advocates were pressed for a solution, they answered the congressional committees and task forces and think tanks with a sharp demand: "Housing, housing and housing." And in a way, they were right. It was no secret that a main cause of homelessness in the '80s was the poor...