Posted on 06/14/2011 5:15:43 PM PDT by library user
As the recession gripped America, thousands more people in rural and suburban areas turned to homeless shelters for help.
The number of people using shelters or transitional housing in suburban and rural areas increased 57 percent from 2007 to 2010, with more than 500,000 people from smaller communities seeking help in 2010, according to a report by the Housing and Urban Development Department. During the same time there was a decrease in the use of shelters in urban areas.
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters that about 40 percent of those who served in the armed forces come from rural areas and homelessness among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans could be a contributing factor. He said the agency is stepping up efforts to combat homelessness near some military bases, and that legislation signed in 2009 by President Barack Obama contained a component that opens the door for more programs targeting homelessness in rural areas.
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Welcome to Obamaville.
4 More Years! 4 More Years!
“Hope and change” How do you all like that hope and change thing so far? Is this the kind of change you were looking for when you voted this boob into office?
Obviously these people became homeless under Bush but were too afraid to come out of hiding, for fear that Bush would kill them, until they were sure the Saviour had been elected and it was OK to seek public assistance again.
We've been told over and over again that homeless shelter occupancy during republican administrations is always overflowing past the brim, while occupancy during dem regimes is 0%.
If you build them, they will come.
Normally they will only mention the homeless during a Republican administration.
But these are pretty big numbers. Might be unseemly if they ignore it and the masses hear about it anyway.
Ah, I see the “Hope and Change” villages are sprouting up en masse. /s =.=
These parasites aren’t paying their far share. I don’t know how they can spend all day luxuriating when they should be paying the same amount of taxes as Mark Cuban.
Just "bumps in the road".
This is the first President to throw the whole country under the bus.
Fox News report.
You can bet you @ss this wouldn’t be found on MSM.
Phrases never heard on MSM since Jan 09:
Homeless
Recovery for Wall $treet but not Main Street
McJobs
When it’s all said and done, many of those who survive will be a tough, angry and independent people against contemporary politics in general. Most of those with great incomes get their pay either directly or indirectly (licensed, authorized, zoned, pedigreed services) from government at various levels.
Geithner warns Congress on need for debt boost, extends default deadline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2713846/posts
This cannot be true. I haven’t seen a homeless story on the Dayton CBS affiliate in juat over two years.
They are future Democrats vote bank.
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