NYC charging rent at homeless shelters

Even the homeless can't escape the high price of a night in New York City.

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Shelters slowly adapt to help transgender homeless

Twelve years heading the Salvation Army's downtown homeless shelter had done little to prepare Janeane Schmidt for the recent night when a soft-spoken biological male transitioning into a female walked in.

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Growing numbers of Americans who have lost houses to foreclosure are landing in homeless shelters, according to social service groups and a recent report by a coalition of housing advocates. Only three years ago, foreclosure was rarely a factor in how people became homeless.

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The most recent location of Nickelsville, a homeless encampment of at least 80 people was on Port of Seattle property. The homeless were told to leave by 1 p.m. or be arrested by state authorities.

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The number of tent camps to shelter the homeless has risen across the country. Such "Hoovervilles" exist from California to Rhode Island. Local governments often harass homeless campers and force them to move from one location to another.

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Rosanne Haggerty didn't intend to start a crusade against home­lessness. Taking a year off before law school, or so she thought, to volunteer at a shelter for runaway youths in Times Square in 1983, she learned the lesson that became her calling.

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Memphis, TN- Homeless crooks are piling up at the Shelby County Jail. One man is behind bars, accused of masturbating on a public bench in downtown Memphis. When officers arrested Augustus Hudgins, he told officers he was "just giving his penis some air".

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excerpt: ""Nearly 350 shelter beds for homeless men and women would disappear as of July 1 under cuts proposed by the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance.

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12-year-old Max Wallack stole the show at Design Squad's Trash to Treasure contest with his "Home Dome." The contest asked kids to repurpose trash into practical inventions.

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A shelter in the Belgian city of Liege has opened its doors to dogs this winter to persuade their homeless owners to come in from the freezing cold.

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Marian Residence, where Hernandez has lived since that day in 2006, gave her a safe place to stay, time to recover from her injuries, and job training. It will close at the end of this summer, however, the victim of budget cuts and rising costs.

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Weekday mornings, a steady stream of buses pulls up on Third Street in downtown Minneapolis. Each inches forward until a paper in the window identifying its route is visible through the gable-shaped arch in front of People Serving People.

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The number of children dying in homeless shelters quadrupled last year, according to a report released Wednesday by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum. Twelve kids died in shelters last year, up from three in 2005, and most of them had parents who had been reported for child abuse in …

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Could You, Should You, Would You – Ever Give Money To The Homeless?

You see them on every street corner – bearing an assortment of signs – asking for us to lend a helping hand.

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