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  2. Community for Creative Non-Violence - Wikipedia

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    In 1973, the CCNV opened the Hospitality House providing medical facilities for the homeless. [5] CCNV says they fed 200 to 300 homeless people a day, seven days a week. [6] [8] In 1982, CCNV staged a protest in Lafayette Park across from the White House. The Department of Interior refused CCNV a permit to occupy Lafayette Park.

  3. List of tent cities in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Smaller homeless tent cities or tents may exist in Jacksonville. Lubbock, Texas: Avenue A and 13th Street encampment [48] Norfolk, Virginia [49] St. Louis, Missouri had a camp at a park near downtown which was cleared in January 2021, and homeless camps still exist in the Saint Louis area [50] Pensacola, Florida; Tampa, Florida [51]

  4. House of Ruth - Wikipedia

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    House of Ruth is a non-profit organization that serves more than 600 women and children who are abused and homeless in Washington, DC.Founded in 1976 and opened on November 21, 1977, [1] the mission is to help women, children and families in greatest need and with very limited resources build safe, stable lives and achieve their highest potential.

  5. List of homeless relocation programs in the United States

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    For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...

  6. List of homeless encampment sweeps in the United States

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    In addition to "homeless and poor families" a number of protestors stayed at the encampment temporarily and participated in antipoverty protests led by the KWRU. [153] In August 2013, 20 homeless women and children slept outside a homeless intake building on Juniper Street to protest the lack of available shelter beds at the start of the school ...

  7. In Massachusetts, frigid temps drive homeless indoors, strain ...

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    This winter, Emmanuel Church Events Administrator Robb Scholten said he's grateful a homeless woman who lived outdoors in the neighborhood for 14 years recently got a subsidized apartment of her own.

  8. Outreach workers in DC brave the winter storm to protect ...

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  9. Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless - Wikipedia

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    [6] In 1986, the organization became the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. [7] It was incorporated on May 14, 1987. [8] Mary Ann Luby, a nun, served as outreach worker at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless for 15 years. Prior to joining the Clinic, she served as the first director of the privately run Rachael's Women's Center.