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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 ...
Saint Francis House, a daytime shelter for the homeless and poor in downtown Boston, Massachusetts; Saint Joseph's House of Hospitality (Pittsburgh) Salvation Army; SAMU Social, a municipal emergency service in several cities in France whose purpose is to provide care and medical aid to homeless people; San Antonio Housing Authority
Visitors to a warming center. A warming center (also a heat bank [1] or warm bank [2]) is a short-term emergency shelter that operates when temperatures or a combination of precipitation, wind chill, wind and temperature become dangerously inclement.
South Middlesex Opportunities Council, commonly referred to as SMOC, is one of the largest private, non-profit social services groups in Eastern Massachusetts. Operating in the Metrowest region of the state, the group provides homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation programs, family counseling handicapped transportation and numerous other social services.
According to the New York City Department of Homeless Services’ daily census, more than 86,000 people in New York City were housed in the shelter system as of Friday, including more than 32,000 ...
Using some of the federal dollars Cook County received to assist with the COVID-19 pandemic, county commissioners Thursday OK’d spending nearly $14 million to transform two suburban hotels into ...
An employee of a Brooklyn homeless shelter was brutally stabbed outside the facility on Thursday night, say police. The ghastly incident unfolded at a Days Inn hotel that had been converted into a ...
Horizons for Homeless Children is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Massachusetts which provides early education and services for children and families experiencing homelessness. [ 1 ] Horizons for Homeless Children provides spaces for children experiencing homelessness to play and learn. [ 2 ]