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Family Homelessness Is On The Rise [Washington, D.C. area]
Associated Press ^ | October 14, 2012 12:00 AM | ANNIE GOWEN

Posted on 10/15/2012 12:07:25 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

Edited on 10/15/2012 12:16:35 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

When Janice Coe, a homeless advocate in Loudoun County, learned through her prayer group that a young woman was sleeping in the New Carrollton Metro station with a toddler and a 2-month-old, she sprang into action.

Coe contacted the young woman and arranged for her to take the train to Virginia, where she put the little family up in a Comfort Suites hotel. Then Coe began calling shelters to see who could take them.


(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: homelessness; washingtondc
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To: Hunton Peck
young woman was sleeping in the New Carrollton Metro station with a toddler and a 2-month-old, she sprang into action.

Hmmm... I just read that FLOTUS said that we are in a recovery!!

I guess this lady being homeless is Bush's fault...

21 posted on 10/15/2012 1:09:47 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!)
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To: Da Coyote
Should our election cheating not work, you may report on the millions of newly discovered homeless in Feb on Jan 21, 2013, 12:03 PM.
22 posted on 10/15/2012 1:17:22 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: tiki

We actually have a woman here who has created a shelter called New Beginnings without government help.


I started a freedom house for guys out of prison, charged them low rent to teach them accountablilty. Local churches thought I was evil for charging them rent so started their own ministry and put me out of business. They got tired of subsisdzing the free loaders and quit too. so now there is nothing.


23 posted on 10/15/2012 1:27:22 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.))
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To: PeterPrinciple

“They got tired of subsisdzing the free loaders and quit too. so now there is nothing.”

The pilgrims at the Plymouth colony made those same types of mistakes and their colony nearly collapsed. Only when they instituted Paul’s golden rule of responsibility...”If ye don’t work, ye don’t eat” was the Plymouth colony able to survive and then to thrive!


24 posted on 10/15/2012 2:06:56 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (We have grieved the Holy Spirit, with our Dark hearts and dark minds turned against God!)
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To: mdmathis6

did you get my point, they put me out of businees and gave free rent to the excons and then when they got tired of it they shut down.

These were do gooders, liberals in the church................


25 posted on 10/15/2012 2:18:59 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.))
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To: Hunton Peck
WOW!!!
Just in time for a Republican President!!!
Imagine that!!!!

26 posted on 10/15/2012 2:21:41 PM PDT by Lazamataz (WAAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhh.....)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I got your point. The Pilgrims were into the notion of “commonwealth”, a type of communism. Everything was to be shared, notions about accumulating wealth were considered evil. The big issue was that the industrious worked hard while the layabouts did nothing to contribute...thus there was nothing in the “common storehouse” when winter famine and sickness struck. (Thus friendly indians had to “help out”).

Such “heavenly minded” commonwealth(read also communism) minded types in the churches you describe put you out of business and discovered they couldn’t handle the load. I wonder if any of them ever learned any lessons from this.

When you ran your enterprise did you have many folks who didn’t “make their rent’? Were there special situations of which you had to show some “flexibility”? What was going on that your enterprise came to the attention of these “do gooders” anyway? I wonder why they felt they had to “compete” with you? ( I’m not being critical, I sympathize with your side of it. The irony of your situation reminded me of that “commonwealth” chapter of the Plymouth colony that historians gloss over because it puts socialism in a bad light!)


28 posted on 10/15/2012 2:46:26 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (We have grieved the Holy Spirit, with our Dark hearts and dark minds turned against God!)
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To: mdmathis6

I was evil because I was charging rent for those poor people. An yes,I ate a lot of lost rent. It was not break even


29 posted on 10/15/2012 2:54:55 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.))
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To: Hugin
Yup. In 2008 you couldn’t pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV without seeing a heart wrenching story of people being forclosed on and living in their cars. I haven’t seen one since Obama was elected.

Followed by the price of gasoline and how bad it it hurting 'folks'. Then lastly a somber update on any casualties from Bush's wars including the new up-to-date totals!

30 posted on 10/15/2012 3:42:58 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: PeterPrinciple

That is so sad.


31 posted on 10/16/2012 1:05:32 AM PDT by tiki
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