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Census workers count 958 homeless in Chicago
ABC 7 Chicago ^
| Mach 25, 2004
| AP
Posted on 03/25/2004 6:58:09 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
Mach 25, 2004 Volunteers and city workers say they've counted 958 people living on Chicago's streets. Hundreds of volunteer counters and city employees went out yesterday between midnight and 3 a-m to conduct a census of the Chicago's homeless population.
Carmelo Vargas is head of the city's Department of Human Services, and was in charge of the census. He says the workers probably missed a "couple hundred" people.
Critics say the number is a gross undercount. Chicago Coalition for the Homeless spokesman Samir Goswami says as many as 80-thousand people are homeless in the city during the year.
Vargas says the head count does not include about six-thousand people who use homeless shelters every night.
The census is part of the city's quest to eliminate homelessness in Chicago in ten years.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: census; chicago; chickenlittle; daleymachine; homeless; liberallies; wildoverestimation
This story was buried, suprise, surprise, surprise...
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
I'm stunned the AP even ran it.
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:01:42 PM PST
by
NativeNewYorker
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
To: NativeNewYorker
Goswami says as many as 80-thousand people are homeless in the city during the year. Sure if you count the same 1000 every 5 days.
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:03:05 PM PST
by
Texasforever
(I am all flamed out.)
To: NativeNewYorker
OH, they must have missed the zillions of displaced unemployed downtrodden souls that are wailing and gnashing their teeth over their suffering under the Bush presidency
SARCASM OFF
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:04:22 PM PST
by
Knute
To: Knute
The other 70,000 were at home.
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:05:08 PM PST
by
Texasforever
(I am all flamed out.)
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
They missed me. I was hiding on Upper Wacker Drive.
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:06:35 PM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John; Stentor
The Daley machine ....your tax dollars hard at work!
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
I think Goswami's 80,000 count comes from the 'homeless votes' that Daley picks up every election cycle. A bottle of cheap port and a pack of smokes work wonders.
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Well now we simply need to know how much federal, state and city funding is allocated to the homeless in Chitown and we'll have something.
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:11:45 PM PST
by
jwalsh07
(We're bringing it on John but you can't handle the truth!)
To: facedown
I remember bicycling through Lower Wacker Drive back in the 60's on a couple of Midnight Century(100 mile)Rides sponsored by the League of American Wheelmen (Bicycle)
The people I saw then seemed to be able to afford Boone's Farm. Don't know their residence status...
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:12:19 PM PST
by
Knute
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
The missing homeless are probably in some democrap voting line somewhere waiting for their promised cigarettes and booze.
To: Texasforever
Ding, Ding, Ding...We have a winner ! ........
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:47:36 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(Is it vietnam yet ?)
To: jwalsh07
The author of the 80,000 count admitted they included folks in jail and mental hospitals, those living with a relative like their mom (I kid you not), and those in various shelters. I heard it on Michael Medved. I know it is stranger than fiction, and with all those categories, the 80,000 figure sounds very low, but there you have it. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. Wackos are those with an agenda are everywhere. Maybe I need a gun.
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posted on
03/25/2004 8:01:08 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Torie
Wackos and those with an agenda are everywhere
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posted on
03/25/2004 8:02:44 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Chi-townChief
Part of the Daley machine lives in cemetaries. They require neither cheap smokes nor port wine to pull the Democrat lever.
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posted on
03/25/2004 8:44:49 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(crime would drop like a sprung trap-door if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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