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- More than 'drug addicted prostitutes'
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  They were six women with little in common except a rapacious addiction to drugs. Their final years were spent on the chaotic streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a notorious enclave of poverty, flagrant drug abuse and prostitution.
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- New York antiques dealer sues homeless people
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  In a clash of classes on a posh shopping strip, an antiques dealer has filed a $1-million (U.S.) lawsuit against four homeless people, seeking to keep them off the sidewalk in front of his shop.
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- 744,000 homeless in U.S.
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Strange to me that U.S. taxpayers are glad to pay for roofs for prisoners but not for the homeless and mentally ill. This survey is a good wake up call.
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- Seven Solutions to Homelessness
  Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee
  Homelessness is not necessary. Unlike most other urban social problems, homelessness is something policymakers actually know how to address. The U.S. and Britain have slashed their rates of homelessness during the past decade. But in Canada, homelessness is on the rise; and in the Vancouver region, the official count of homeless persons...
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- France plans legal right to housing
  Posted by Shemuses from Al Jazeera
  The French government has announced plans to create a "legal right" to housing in response to a snowballing campaign that has seen a tent city for the homeless spring up in the heart of Paris.
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- Searching for Home
  Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee
  And at this time of the year, people will ask, "Are you going home for Christmas?" or "Are you going to be home for Christmas?" All such questions assume we all know where home truly is. The painful truth, however, is that it is not always easy to know exactly where home is.
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- Activist group fights for access to city hall
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  An activist group that has launched numerous lawsuits against the City of Vancouver alleging police misconduct in the Downtown Eastside now accuses the city of barring it from access to municipal services on behalf of its clients.
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skye60 comments on:
Seven Solutions to Homelessness

You can use it but please use the email address. Thanks, J. Kristiansen

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5:34 am 7/03/07
skye60 comments on:
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Sorry but I’ve quit using Outlook Express.

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8:25 am 6/14/07

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Shemuses
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Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.
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