In a protest deemed Sleep Out, the protesters said they hoped to awaken Greek politicians to their plight, but the government offers virtually no assistance to them, leaving it to NGO’s and the Greek Orthodox Church, which also operate soup kitchens and food lines for the hungry.
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Ah, Berkeley. Hardly a stranger to political movements, this is a city that has championed free speech, no nukes, the antiwar movement and now: no sitting on the sidewalk.
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Its co-founder, Mel Young gave the welcoming address: “We have a dream, that the players playing in Mexico City today change their lives, and get a home and a job. We have a dream, that the rest of the world looks at what’s going on here and joins in, so that thousands of people can pick a ball up and change their lives.”
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Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have rendered around one million people in Pakistan’s south-western province of Balochistan homeless over the past week, without any relief in sight.
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New York City has opened nine new shelters in the last two months in efforts to handle the city’s rapidly growing homeless population, officials said.
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A growing number of cities want to tackle the problem of homelessness by outlawing what are known as “acts of daily living” â sleeping, eating and panhandling in public. In Philadelphia, a new rule is targeting not the homeless but those who feed them.
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A homeless Stockholm man has been granted a subsidy from local authorities to purchase camping equipment rather than stay in the “substandard” temporary accommodation provided for homeless people.
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For decades, cities all over the country have worked to essentially criminalize homelessness, instituting measures that outlaw holding a sign, sleeping, sitting, lying (or weirdly, telling a lie in Orlando) if you live on the street.
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The It’s My Life hitmaker, who recently opened donations-only restaurant Soul Kitchen in his native New Jersey, has called on entrepreneurs to build a web application, which can provide the homeless with real-time information about health clinics, shelters and food kitchens.
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Sometimes a well-timed sandwich or a cup of warm soup can make a world of difference for a homeless person. But many U.S. cities have decided that feeding the homeless is such a threat that they had better devote law enforcement resources to making sure that it doesn’t happen.
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