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HUD: Rural Americans increasingly turn to shelters
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.
Families represent a much larger share of the total sheltered population than ever before, the report said. A majority of the homeless families consist of a single mother with young children.
"It's not surprising, given the economic crisis, that we would see an increasing number of families," Donovan said. "I think it is a direct result of the employment, the economic challenges we've seen."
The report said research has shown that families are more likely to become homeless for economic reasons while individuals are more likely to become homeless because of substance abuse and mental illness.
There was a bright spot in the report. The total number of people chronically homeless during the four-year period decreased 11 percent. Donovan said the emphasis on programs to assist the chronically homeless and increase in permanent supportive housing nationwide helps explain why.
And, the number of homeless individuals overall in the United States held steady between 2009 and 2010, the report said.
The worse recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s began in December 2007 and ended in 2009, although unemployment remains at painfully high levels.
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The God-King should crack some more jokes about the economy!
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Not to mention 40 percent increase in food stamp usage in last two years alone.
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Not to mention 40 percent increase in food stamp usage in last two years alone.
How dare you attack Obamanomics! PROVE that this is Barack Obama's fault!!!!!! It's the ATM's fault....and the earthquakes and the Japs and Greece and so on and so on.
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How dare you attack Obamanomics! PROVE that this is Barack Obama's fault!!!!!! It's the ATM's fault....and the earthquakes and the Japs and Greece and so on and so on.
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I envision obama walking down the street and kicking an ATM machine saying "damn you innovation". We need more tellers and endless lines in bank branches!
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People Using Homeless Shelters Surges 57%
FOX Nation ^ | June 14, 2011 | Staff
Posted on June 14, 2011 8:15:43 PM EDT 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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Kc, straw, Andre, Benny, blacken, et al see this as progress.
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I envision obama walking down the street and kicking an ATM machine saying "damn you innovation". We need more tellers and endless lines in bank branches!
Maybe some Americans will form a mob, complete with pitch forks and torches, and really show these dastardly ATMs that the citizens of this country mean business.
Kc, straw, Andre, Benny, blacken, et al see this as progress.
Your thread today did a good job showing who the real assholes are on this site. I'm just wondering how many of them are sucking on the government tit, hence their brain-dead support for this failing regime.
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That brought out all the hope and changers. Ha ha. Sadly this thread is really heartbreaking.
Where the fuck is this all leading? whino nation?
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Feds Plan Huge Campground - in Brooklyn (camp at old airport)
NBC New York ^ | Jun 14, 2011 | Greg Wilson
Posted on June 14, 2011 11:04:17 PM EDT by Texas Fossil
Old airfield could host 600 sites, says National Park Service
Roasting marshmallows, telling ghost stories and sleeping under the stars - in New York City?
The National Park Service is planning a 600-site campground in Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, a onetime airport used by Amelia Earhart. The campground would be the largest urban tent-pitching site in the nation, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
"We want to make New York the leading example of what we can do around the country with urban parks," Salazar said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...
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Sarah Palin sent an email that plainly states she eats butter instead of margarine.
Where is the outrage over that!?
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Sarah Palin sent an email that plainly states she eats butter instead of margarine.
Where is the outrage over that!?
GW This brooklyn camp site seems awfully suspicious to me.
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The campground would be the largest urban tent-pitching site in the nation
LOL!
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The God-King should crack some more jokes about the economy!
Not to mention 40 percent increase in food stamp usage in last two years alone.
You two are so ignorant about Obamanomics it's truly disgusting. Without the messiah at the helm, homeless shelter usage would have surged 78.6% and food stamp usage would have gone up 86.4%.
Now, I'm going to ignore the fact that it's a completely unproveable assertion. But, everybody knows, without the messiah, it would be worse. Simple as that.
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You two are so ignorant about Obamanomics it's truly disgusting. Without the messiah at the helm, homeless shelter usage would have surged 78.6% and food stamp usage would have gone up 86.4%.
Now, I'm going to ignore the fact that it's a completely unproveable assertion. But, everybody knows, without the messiah, it would be worse. Simple as that.
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haha, sounds exactly like the kneepadders around here. Can't prove shit and just keep claiming the same thing. Ad Nauseum at it's finest.