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#Repost @the.angel.life

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Even though #AtlanticCity may not seem beautiful, there are still many people that still live and work here and need our #prayers. We cannot fathom what he will do here next! #scriptureoftheday #hope

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Yes! And thank you! @projectstillhuman 
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This. My son is the reason I started Project #StillHuman. I want him to grow up to see all people as equal, regardless of what they're wearing, where they're sleeping, or what they look like. He will not be one of those people stepping over the homeless. Repost @theihaveanameproject

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So cool!

Phenomenon of homelessness has became an intensly global question during past couple of decades. Finding solutions to it is a complex task which involves coordination of skills in socio-psychological and administrative fields - to name a few. Priority of the Gregory project is to find optimal alternatives for existentional questions of people without a home through the use of billboard objects and their advertisment spaces.

The Gregory project brings optimalization to the construction of billboard structures in a way that the insides of these, after the extension, could be turned into a living space. Such an object would need just  a minimal maintanance cost which could be partially paid through the rental of its advert space.

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Life among the dead

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This RV in a Wal-Mart parking lot at Main and highway 66 in Longmont, Colorado was my home for about two months, from late April of 2013 till June of 2013. It didn’t run, and had no electricity, running water, heating, or air conditioning.

A week from today, Tuesday March 17, will mark the two-year anniversary since my family was evicted and we became homeless, living on the streets in Longmont for about six weeks before moving in to this broken-down RV in a Wal-Mart parking lot, where we lived without electricity from the last snowstorms of Colorado’s unpredictable April to the sweltering heat of summer on asphalt. “Memoirs of a Homeless Bookstore Owner” was written during the time my family lived in that broken-down RV, and was edited a month later from my bed in a domestic violence shelter.

My story is not perfect, but I hope it will inspire change. Change in the way persons who experience homelessness are thought of and treated, change in the way that the crumbling traditional publishing industry thinks about doing business.

If you shop at smile.amazon.com, you have the opportunity to select a charity that your purchase will help support, including Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

#homeless #homelessness #amreading #amwriting #booksuggestions #prose #rv #motorhome #colorado #publishing

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#blessings #scriptureoftheday

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Our #farms would never be a success without our awesome #Volunteers, but we always need more! Find out how you can help here http://www.acrescuemission.org/MissionFarms

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#praise #God for #sunshine on this glorious #Lordsday! #springiscoming #hallelujah

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4 things you should never say to a homeless person

About 610,000 people are homeless on any given night in the United States. Mic spoke with several organizers who work to combat homelessness to come up with some simple tips on how conversations with homeless people can easily be more pleasant and productive for all parties involved.

4 things you should say rather than the quotes above

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Cops clear ‘The Jungle,’ one of the largest homeless encampments in America | RT News

Authorities in San Jose have cleared out “The Jungle,” considered one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation, as high rents and tough economic times have hit many in California’s Silicon Valley, a region where the tech industry dominates.

Municipal workers, including police and social services, as well as animal control and construction contractors moved into the camp on Thursday, according to reports, to help clear out the creek-side camp where as many as 300 people lived in tents and other makeshift shelters.

Residents of The Jungle were told Monday that they had to vacate the area by Thursday or face arrest for trespassing, the Associated Press reported. Officials said many residents left the camp, just minutes from downtown San Jose, upon the initial notice. How many were left after Monday was yet undetermined.

"It’s like a big family," Yolanda Gutierrez, a former Jungle resident, told AFP. "We all looked out for each other, especially the females that are single. We all had our own little group that we would check up on each other.”

"But unfortunately what they just did to us today it’s like they split the family apart,” she added.

Another former Jungle resident, Andrew Costa, said homelessness could happen to anyone who can’t catch a break.

"They are part of the society that are discarded. They’re your son who doesn’t get a job, they’re your daughter that takes too much drugs and is not understood, they’re the ones that didn’t want to go to school," he told AFP.

"They’re run-away people."

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Guardian Cities: 

"The gentrification of Skid Row - a story that will decide the future of Los Angeles

LA’s infamous ‘homeless neighbourhood’ has become a critical location in the city’s attempts to transform its downtown heart. But how do the people who actually live there feel about this blighted, vibrant community?

Colin Marshall. 5 March 2015. 

In the centre of one of the world’s most high-profile cities lies a concentration of desperate poverty unlike any other in the developed world. Los Angeles’s Skid Row, a common name for a once-common form of down-and-out quarter in American cities, persists as the last neighbourhood of its kind.

Skid Row’s very existence illustrates a major planning mistake the southern Californian metropolis made in the past. The struggles over what to do with it now reveal the extent of the challenge facing LA in its current transformation into a denser, more traditionally urban city. It’s no exaggeration to call Skid Row one of the main battlegrounds for the future of Los Angeles.”

Photo: Skid Row’s homeless are estimated to make up 10% of LA’s downtown population. Photograph: Ted Soqui Photography/Corbis

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We hope you have been able to stay inside and enjoy the beauty of #Gods creation! Please continue to #pray for our staff, which stay, sometime much longer than their original shift, so that the all the needs of those they are caring for are being meet.

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A very grateful thank you to Alana Rodriguez and Danni Eafrati from Art Is Salon in Brigantine. They did a #clothingdrive and collected #donations for the Rescue Mission. Find out where you can #donate today! http://www.acrescuemission.org/EmptyClosets

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You are #beautiful and of great #worth to #God! #scriptureoftheday

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In the United States, there are 5 times as many empty houses than there are homeless people.

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So simple!

Here’s the shockingly simple, surprisingly cost-effective way to end homelessness.