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Joyce Patricia Brown (1947 – November 29, 2005), also known as Billie Boggs, was a homeless woman who was forcibly hospitalized in New York City in 1987. She was the first person hospitalized under a Mayor Ed Koch administration program which expanded the city's ability to forcibly commit homeless New Yorkers to psychiatric hospitals.
Streetwise follows the lives of several homeless teenagers, although it focuses most on 14-year-old Erin Blackwell, a young prostitute who goes by the name of Tiny. Much of the time, Tiny stays at the home of her alcoholic mother, Pat, who seems unfazed by her daughter's prostitution, calling it a "phase".
A homeless mother and her child; The U.S. A homeless woman in Washington, D.C. When the UN declared the world “Homeless Crisis” in the mid 1980s, it set the stage for the politicized “feminization of poverty” discourse that had developed from initial research efforts on female poverty and homelessness. [8]
A new project called Vancouver Street View visualizes just how dire the city's homelessness epidemic has gotten in recent years. Created by RainCity Housing, a local nonprofit, the site shows ...
This led to Gawryn's creating the 'Exposing Homelessness Project' as a photography workshop, an art show and finally, the 20-minute documentary. [ 1 ] The film documents the processes of M. Meissen, Bréyon Austin, and Liz Olsen, three formerly homeless women who took part in the photography workshop.
The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by Lightning Pictures in June 1987. [8] They also released the film on VHS the same year. In 2005, Synapse Films marketed an all-new, digitally remastered version of the film. Included with the DVD were sticker-type "labels" of the Viper wine featured in the film. [9]
Johnnie Jefferson, an 85-year-old resident of Richmond, Texas, says she faces the heartbreaking prospect of losing the six-bedroom house she has lived in for more than 20 years after a ...
Snyder became the driving force of CCNV but worked with many deeply committed people including his wife and professional partner, Carol Fennelly; Mary Ellen Hombs, with whom he co-authored Homelessness in America: A Forced March to Nowhere; and Ed and Kathleen Guinan.