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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Hope and Change? More like...
Hooks and Chains by 10 Pound Test
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Someone may nationalize foreclosed and empty homes to solve this problem.
Where is that picture taken?
That is such an incredibly stupid idea that some Dimocrat will probably think of it and put the idea forward.
0b’viously this is Bush’s fault.
Past tense? Oh, that's right, it's a 'recovery' now. This must be a historical reference.
where is that?
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What a disaster.
Thanks for the link. I’m saving that one. :)
Good thing we’re sending all our jobs to China.
So THIS is the affordable housing the Dems kept promising. Well voters, how do you like your new digs?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Beats me. i just found that picture on the internet. I figure if it isn’t in America, it’s coming soon if we don’t stop that maniac in the White House.
“Might be unseemly if they ignore it and the masses hear about it anyway”
Chances are at this point the masses are too busy EXPERIENCING IT to bother reading about it. They are experiencing what the press is ignoring, or writing about. Surely all who are losing their jobs and homes are pretty much more than aware of what is going on and whose fault it is.
“This is the first President to throw the whole country under the bus”
Yes; even Carter wasn’t just this malicious, just incompetent. Carter was in over his head, while Obama is treating this just like a joke.
I wouldn’t bet too much on that.
I talk to plenty of people that blame all of the economic problems on Bush and the Wall Street bankers.
They think Obama was saddled with a worsening economy left to him by Bush.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Yes, well, I think those are the ones that will stay homeless, even in good times. One major facet of success is seeing the unpleasant realities of life.
Yes, but only if you recognize them as something you can do something about.
Too many of our fellow Americans have been conditioned to believe that these unpleasant realities of life are something that only government can deal with and so they sit around waiting for the government to come around handing out cash.
“This is the first President to throw the whole country under the bus.”
Bump & Shudder...
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