Solutions to the Homeless Problem

Library can be your Living Room, Office, and Computer Room

2011-09-06T13:52:00.004-04:00

Library can be your Living Room and OfficeDr Jyh from Key West FL rented a furnished room right next to Edison Library for only $500 a month. Every morning he walk to the library to read World Journal and other magazines. He said the library is like his living room and his friends can meet him there.Boss Hu also goes to library every day when he comes back from Taiwan for a week or two to do his

Long Stay Hotels vs Senior Housing

2011-09-04T14:45:00.004-04:00

Long Stay Hotels vs Senior Housing Long Stay Hotels has becoming one of the Homeless Solutions that is cost effective with community sense. It is not much different from many brand new popular Senior Housing which also has long stay hotel setup except that seniors do not need to move out every 28 days, and they have more common facilities such as library room with Internet access, breakfast area

On A Dollar A Day vs 99 Cents Buffet

2011-09-03T23:54:00.007-04:00

On A Dollar A Day vs 99 Cents Buffet I read a book called On A Dollar A Day in the Border store closing sale, and I sent the authors, a couple who are high school teacher in San Diego, one of my homeless solution, i.e. 99 Cent Buffet. Basically, it came from Mr. Lin's Lunch Box Buffet in New York Chinatown where I took many homeless people to eat. It charges $4 a meal with 4 out of 100 dishes

Bus or Fly American Homeless Back Home

2011-05-02T14:30:00.004-04:00

Bus or Fly American Homeless Back Home One powerful way to help homeless people to move off homelessness on street is to help them a bus ticket or airplane ticket to go home. I am glad to read the news today that Atlantic City Looks to Bus More Homeless Back Home. I believe that will work and work toward mutual benefits of over 500 homeless people stuck in Atlantic City and the casino business

Chuck E Cheese may be a good resource for your family

2011-03-24T00:45:00.004-04:00

Chuck E Cheese may be a good resource for you and your familyIn the past, many homeless or unemployed people use bookstores such as Barnes and Noble or Borders as day time shelter, however, many do not know Chuck E Cheese may also be a good resource for you and your family. Why?It open early and close late like 9am to 11pm, and most day time the whole stores are almost vacant, lots of desk and

Why Not Shop for Free with Coupons?

2010-10-15T01:54:00.003-04:00

Why Not Shop for Free with Coupons? Most people eventually became homeless started by losing their job, then can not pay mortgage on time, eventually lose their house and had to move out to rent an apartment, but soon or later, they could not pay rent on time, and eventually was evicted, and move to relatives or friends places or motel ...etc. So, the monthly payment is most important. For

Relocate American Homeless Families to Detroit

2009-10-29T00:06:00.007-04:00

Relocate American Homeless Families to Detroit I have had a dream to move all American homeless off homelessness, and I found my dream may come true sooner than I expected. It is to relocate all American homeless families to affordable towns like Detroil MI because now we can buy a home for only $10 there!!! Currently, I found there are 4,737 houses listing for sale at Detroit MI, and I feel it

Audit College Courses like Apple Founder Steve Jobs

2009-10-01T00:10:00.008-04:00

Audit College Courses like Apple Founder Steve JobsSteve Jobs, Founder and CEO of Apple Computer, said in his Commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, that he can not afford to continue college but he audit courses thru. His great success later has lots to do with his auditted courses at Reed College, and his college solution can be followed by hundreds of thousands high school

Section 8 Voucher from HUD and IRS Tracking Loan is the Solution

2008-11-19T01:22:00.007-05:00

Section 8 Voucher from HUD and IRS Tracking Loan is the SolutionHere is the letter I just wrote to President Elect Obama. I would feel guilty, as probably the only one in this country know the solution, if not sharing it to the new President.--------------------------------I have been helping you and the country by "bashing down" the gas price since June 17 when I filed an Anti-Trust Law

DOJ should investigate Anti Trust Law Violation of Major Oil Companies in the US.

2008-09-21T23:15:00.008-04:00

DOJ should investigate Anti Trust Law Violation of Major Oil Companies in the US.On June 17, 2008, I filed a petition to Department of Justice to investigate big oil companies on the violation of Anti-Trust Law. Ever since then, the oil price came down from $147 all time high to below $90, and I expect it to continue going down to $50's or much less. Then, there was news saying the oil price

Give Top University Opportunities to talent kids from Homeless Families.

2008-07-08T00:43:00.003-04:00

Give Top University Opportunities to talent kids from Homeless FamiliesIn respond to letter from dean of John Hopkins University below, I was thinking that wealthy top universities in this country should provide more opportunities to talent kids from American homeless or poor families, especially, wealthy universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford ...etc that have accumulated

Reflective Survival Blanket and cut A/C and Heating Cost a lot!

2008-06-24T00:34:00.002-04:00

Reflective Survival Blanket and cut A/C and Heating Cost a lotReflective Survival Blanket when hanging on the window can keep heat and sunlight out of the house and cut your A/C cost tremendously. If use properly, you may be surprised that you do not need to turn on A/C at all.In the winter, if you hang it on window inside out, it will prevent heat inside the house to leak out in radiation way.

Pack Rat can help moving and storing

2008-06-16T00:24:00.004-04:00

Pack Rat can help moving, storing or save moneyPack Rat may be a good solution for families facing foreclosure or need to save mortgage or rent for a few months to recover.For example, if one family can not afford to pay mortgage, may need to pack all the valuables such as furniture, books, clothes ...etc, and store somewhere, and temporarily move to relative's home for a few months, or shelter,

DirectExpress Debit MasterCard will Help Many Homeless and Poor Families

2008-06-10T09:35:00.002-04:00

DirectExpress Debit MasterCard will Help Many Homeless and Poor FamiliesDirectExpress Debit MasterCard will Help Many Homeless and Poor Families, especially, 4 millions of American families without bank accounts due to the fact U.S. Treasury Introduces Direct Express(R) Debit Card for Social Security Payments.From my first hand experience of helping thousands of homeless, former homeless or to be

New Jersey Defies National Housing Trends: Home Sales Up 4 Percent

2008-05-15T17:26:00.002-04:00

I just picked up this great news from Trulia, and many people are getting excited that real estate is turning back up in Greater Edison NJ area and New Jersey.We need to continue helping millions of prospective buyers to buy a dream home at collapsed mortage rate effectively that way millions of sellers would be able to sell and move up to buy their dream home.

Subprime is NOT a difficult problem

2007-12-18T02:35:00.000-05:00

Subprime is not a difficult problem to solve. One solution is provide cash assistance like California State help poor senior homeowners to pay property tax to San Francisco City Government, and place a lien on the property that needs to be paid back when property transferred at death or earlier.It costs no money from taxpayer, nor mortgage lender. And 2 millions families can save their home that

Work with Trulia to Help Millions of American Families Sell

2007-05-18T00:46:00.000-04:00

I just wrote a letter to Trulia at job@trulia.com (see below) trying to see if I can help millions of American families to sell their home at much faster and cost effective way. I think this is one time of a life opportunity to do Nobel Prize level of contribution to the world, and, interestingly, it could be winning both Economics and Peace Award at the same time. Why?The basic model is to trade

Hire Back All AT&T Bell Labs and Lucent Laid Off's

2007-02-11T00:02:00.000-05:00

Hire Back All AT&T Bell Labs and Lucent Laid Off'sIf you read the "insiders" documents by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), as 2006 came to a close, there was a marked decline in the month's supply of inventory available on the market, down from an average of 7.2 months to 6.4 months nationwide. The decrease in inventory was largely attributed to the late-year increase in sales,

Building an Epidemic Network to Prevent Many American Families from Becoming Homelessness

2006-09-17T01:59:00.000-04:00

Building an Epidemic Network to Prevent Many American Families from Becoming HomelessnessRecently, I received a reader of my Homeless Solutions Blog (see attached), asking me why my blog has not had new entry since March. On the one hand, I thought I had pointed out an very effective way thru Internet for homeless prospects to find resourceful American peer who have extra resource to buy stocks

Yahoo Stock Message Board can help homeless families

2006-03-19T13:39:00.000-05:00

Yahoo Stock Message Board can help homeless familiesWhen a person or family is facing becoming homeless, he, she or they should trying to reach out to find as much resources, help and advises as possible to prevent that from happening. Once the homelessness happens, one should try even harder to find help and move off homelessness as soon as possible. After all, the longer stay at homelessness,

Give Red Envelopes to Homeless People at Chinese New Year

2006-01-29T14:15:00.000-05:00

Give Red Envelopes to Homeless People at Chinese New YearToday is Chinese New Year. Traditionally, Chinese people give red envelopes that has cash gift inside to their children, grand children, relatives' children ...etc. It is also a good time to give red envelopes to anyone they love.Knowing that most homeless people or working poor are often short of cash to carry out their life goal or just

Spend more than Incoming is the Key reason

2006-01-01T03:31:00.000-05:00

Do NOT spend more than Incoming resourcesAfter all these years helping homeless people to move off homelessness and prevent former homeless to fall back to homeless, I have identified the key reason why people becoming homeless. They over spend their resources.A single dad with son in Williamsburg VA area is not able to pay his rent because he is making $1,000 a month doing paper route, yet

ICH lead local officials to experience homeless life.

2005-10-21T15:24:00.000-04:00

ICH Leads Local Officials to Experience Homeless LifeDear Philip Mangano, Here is the comment of Clyde Hendrickson who has been homeless citizen for many years sleeping under tarp next to railroad in Saint Petersburg FL area. He knew and used 211 services for years, but, apparently, it is not helpful to homeless citizens like himself. Also, even the shelter beds there are only for about 12% of

Empower Business to Provide Housing to Homeless or Working Poor

2005-10-15T06:25:00.000-04:00

Empower Business to Provide Housing to Homeless or Working PoorDear Professor Culhane, I read your message from USA Today, and I felt again you may be one of the most qualified person to be able to solve homeless issues all together at federal policy level, and if that happens, you would deserve a Nobel Price. After more pilot on my Homeless Solutions, it has become very clear that there should

Help Homeless to Contact United Way

2005-10-02T04:47:00.000-04:00

Help Homeless to Contact United WayDo you have problem to pay rent? Is your electricity to be shut off due to no money to pay the bill for months? Are you sick and not able to pay for the prescription? No problem, you need to contact United Way as soon as possible because United Way help people facing homeless these three major area, among others.So, what is the problem for desperated people to

Empower Katrina Homeless to Help Themselves move off Homelessness

2005-09-10T23:41:00.000-04:00

Help Those Katrina Homeless to Help ThemselvesWant to help Katrina Homeless? Here is how you can help them cost effectively and massively; yes, one person can help dozens of homeless families to move off homelessness quickly, and government agencies or charity organizations can help hundreds of thousands easily.The tip is very simple: Help those Katrina homeless to help themselves. When I was

Do NOT Evict Your Tenant

2005-08-23T05:25:00.000-04:00

Do NOT Evict Your TenantDanny called me today and told me he was in the process of evicting his ehs1804 tenant, a single father with a daughter who have owed him $6,000. I asked him if he needed the money to pay mortgage of condo, he said No, the condo is paid off. I asked him if he needed the money to pay his garage bills, he said No. I asked him if he needed the money to pay his $700 per month

Do NOT Charge Homeless to Obtain ID's Back

2005-04-19T02:29:00.000-04:00

Do Not Charge Homeless to Obtain ID's BackPosted by Mr. Cheng with (374) Comments Many homeless people I helped had a similar problem that they lost their ID's, and it costs them to get a replacement yet have no money to apply for. Without ID's such as birth certificate, social security card, state ID's ...etc, it is hard for homeless on street to find a job. For example, in order to apply for

Housing First to Homeless on the Street

2005-01-19T16:55:00.000-05:00

Housing First to Homeless on the Street Posted by Mr. Cheng with (237) Comments Some New York City homeless sent me Pathways To Housing link and told me this was exactly the help they needed to move out of street. And, recently, I also saw this link highly recommended byThe Homeless Guy's blog. The only problem is that it is only at NYC, and started in Washington DC, and the housing is for

Help Homeless to Obtain a Cell Phone Service

2004-11-03T16:02:00.000-05:00

Help Homeless to Obtain a Cell Phone Service Posted by Mr. Cheng with (248) Comments I have explained the importance of a cell phone to people who became homeless and proved that it is one of the most important homeless solutions. And I have proposed that the Department of Homeless Services of any city should consider providing a free cell phone to homeless people in their city. Now, I have

2004-08-11T00:40:00.000-04:00

Use Yahoo Group to Create Support Group for A Homeless Posted by Mr. Cheng with (356) Comments I have proposed one homeless solution to have many people to form a support group to help one homeless person or family to move off homelessness since it normally may take lots of resources to move a homeless off homelessness. For example, it averagely takes 11 months for New York City Homeless

2004-04-14T17:53:00.001-04:00

Invite Homeless People to White House by Pesident Posted by Mr. Cheng with (1248) Comments When I visited George Washington's home at Mount Vernon VA, I was told by the guided tour to dozens of visitor that George Washington was very generous that he let his visitors stay at his big house, even when he was not around, and the guide even showed us the rooms where he hosts all these visitors.

2004-03-05T02:06:00.003-05:00

Use Reflexology to Cure Knees Problems from Sitting up Sleeping Posted by Mr. Cheng with (167) Comments Many homeless people, due to sitting up sleep, have knee problem and suffer a lot thereafter in addition to being homelessness. I have found Reflexology the best way to cure the problem right away without medical cost. It helps me a lot because I had the same problem due to I had to drive

2004-01-02T00:06:00.000-05:00

Use Priceline.com to Obtain Hotel at Little Price Posted by Mr. Cheng with (718) Comments Many homeless people, once in a while got stuck on the situation when shelter room is full, or when they are on street for many days and need to use hotel room to refresh or take a shower ...etc, they may have paid too much for the hotel room that is low class yet NOT cheap! I have found Priceline.com

Include BitPass in Homeless Blog rather than PayPal

2003-12-06T03:02:00.000-05:00

Include BitPass in Your Blog rather than PayPal Posted by Mr. Cheng with (106) Comments There are many so-called homeless blog websites authored by famous homeless people such as Kevin Barbieux at TN, Morgan Brown at VT, Crystal Evans at MA, ...etc. They were either having no way for the reader to send money to them or no easy way. Some use PayPal, others use credit card ...etc... But, the

Take Advantage of Cell Phone Recycle Program

2003-10-22T18:28:00.000-04:00

Take Advantage of Cell Phone Recycle Program Posted by Mr. Cheng with (156) Comments One big problem for homeless is to stay contacted by social service, prospective employers, friends, relatives ...etc in a real time manner, and obtaining a cell phone may cost homeless people unaffordable upfront money due to free cell phone may require good financial credit which homeless not able to

2003-08-23T23:22:00.000-04:00

Provide Free Cell Phone to Homeless People by Department of Homeless Services Posted by Mr. Cheng with (2034) Comments I have explained the importance of a cell phone to people who became homeless and proved that it is one of the most important homeless solutions. I am further proposing that the Department of Homeless Services of any city should consider providing a free cell phone to homeless

2003-07-01T11:12:00.000-04:00

Batering Your Service and Surplus for Your Needs Posted by Mr. Cheng with (348) Comments Most homeless people are lack of cash and may have some surplus items in storage but in need of many things, like subway pass, food, shower, sleeping bag, sneaker... etc. And bartering seems to be one good solution, according to James Ramsey, The Homeless Guy in New York City Hi there, Just to let you

2003-06-15T18:49:00.000-04:00

Create a Free Blog and Document All Your Homeless Thoughts and Activities Posted by Mr. Cheng with (123) Comments Most people when become homeless, they are under great pressure whether financial or social. One solution to keep their psychology balance is to create a free web log on the Internet. This will not only help organize the thoughts and plans of a homeless person, writing down journal

2003-04-26T02:59:00.000-04:00

Support Mayoral Candidate with Workable Homeless Solutions Posted by Mr. Cheng with (2123) Comments In order to help homeless people to move off homelessness, one very powerful way is to elect a mayor who can provide workable homeless solutions. For example, I recently just endorsed Jim Reid as the mayor of San Francisco, more detail can be seen in Rich New Jersey man adopts S.F. candidate

2003-04-15T14:22:00.000-04:00

Encourage Mayor Candidates to Experience Homeless Life in Shelter Posted by Mr. Cheng with (1123) Comments It would help the mayors to understand the homeless issue better if they all have experienced the homeless life in shelters; so it make a lot sense to encourage mayor candidates to do so and see what their solutions are. Last year, the San Francisco Mayor Candidate went to experience

2003-04-13T23:19:00.000-04:00

Pay Homeless' Cell Phone Bill Posted by Mr. Cheng with (1406) Comments Recently, Jack Davis, a Christian working homeless from Nashville TN, sent me an emergency email saying that due to his employer not able to paid him on time and owed him $238, he was not able to pay his cell phone bill, and, therefore, his cell phone was disconnected. So, I found a sponsor, Tracy Wang from Forest Hill, NY,

2003-03-18T10:58:00.000-05:00

Help Homeless to Rent a Furnish Room at the Unemployed Professional's Big HousePosted by Mr. Cheng with (309) Comments My colleague at AT&T used to be Oracle Database Administrator and has been unemployeed for more than a year. He ran out his 9 month unemployment and still could not find any job. His mom told me when I took my father and family to visit them that he has to pay $1,600 a month to

2003-02-24T15:59:00.000-05:00

Provide Sizable Cash Assistance and Low Interest Long Term Loan to Homeless People Posted by Mr. Cheng with (309) Comments There is no simpler and fastest way of helping homeless to move off homelessness than providing cash assistance and low interest long term loan. Recently I have helped The Homeless Guy at Nashville TN to move off homelessness on 1/1/03 by providing him $1,000 cash

2003-02-04T11:09:00.000-05:00

Asian Instant Noodle Soup is Cheap, Light and Delicious for Homeless at All Levels Recently I realized that Asian Instant Noodle Soup is one of the best solutions for the homeless on the street, living in shelter or even sharing a furnished room. Many non homeless people also find that Instant noodles - the greatest thing since sliced bread and inflatable furniture For homeless on the street

2003-01-15T10:34:00.000-05:00

For homeless, the Internet is a link to jobs and loved ones Internet has been a very cost effective way for the homeless to stay touched and yet free, A recent article For homeless, the Internet is link to jobs and loved ones has reported many stories of how homeless people can benefit from the Internet. In general, a homeless can go to any local public library to access Internet connected

2003-01-09T22:47:00.000-05:00

Homeless sleeping in car can park at Walmart parking lot There are many homeless people living in car or van at night, and in addition to many other places, Walmart parking lot is a good place to park. Not only because Walmart has officially welcome their customers to park on their parking lot over night, but also because it is so convenient and there are thousands Walmart locations all over

2003-01-01T00:23:00.000-05:00

Email Homeless People Cash Assistance through Pay Pal Posted by Mr. Cheng with (8) Comments I have proposed to used email, Yahoo Instant Messenger, blog...etc. to help homeless get off street and continue moving up. In addition, using Pay Pal to send money through email to help homeless get off street remotely is another very powerful way. For example, I, at New Jersey, just email $1,000 to

2002-12-31T13:51:00.000-05:00

Help Homeless Pay Weekly or Monthly for the Hotel Hotel rate is very expensive to the homeless, especially, go by daily rate. For example, the Daily Rate for Stadium Inn at Nashville TN used by Kevin Barbieux mentioned in The Homeless Guy on Wednesday, August 21 costs $47 a night, however, the weekly rate is only $112 ($16 a night) and monthly will become $440 ($14 a night). So, it would make

2002-12-20T01:07:00.000-05:00

Use Email and Yahoo Instant Messenger to Help Homeless Many homeless people have access to computer, and using email and Yahoo Instant Messenger is very cost effective way to help homeless people. Together with blog, it could be very effectively tracking all the communication with the homeless person being help and can work as a team remotely to help the homeless to move off street and keep

2002-12-12T00:38:00.000-05:00

Create a Blog for each Homeless person You help Recently, I have found the fantacy of creating one blog for each homeless I have been helping and keep track of their progress. For example, I have created one for Joe at Jersey City that I helped each day on the way home. I took him to Modell and bought him sleeping bag, duffle bag, sweat shirt, socks, glove...etc. I gave him wallet with

2002-12-02T14:48:00.000-05:00

Relocate Homeless Out Of City In the Homeless Crisis article, it seems there is NO other way to resolve the recent homeless issues in the New York City. On the other hand, there are lots of vacant houses in rural area like Hazleton PA and many other cities that population has been decreasing. The solution is really to help homeless people, especially those at the bottom sleeping outdoors to

2002-11-22T15:47:00.000-05:00

Fund Raising with Restaurants, Hotels and Movie Theathers I ofthen think that getting people together to help homeless is hard and not that effective, but if get people together to have a party, then it would be much easier. So here is another successful story Homeless shelter raises over $40,000 at fundraiser that bring people together to have party and try out various restaurants in town

2002-11-15T00:19:00.000-05:00

Let Homeless Sleep Inside the Church, Not Outside the Church I just wrote another letter to New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in respond to another news COPS RIP MIKE ON HOMELESS I really believe the win win situation is urge all the churches let the homeless sleep INSIDE the churches, rather than outsite at the steps or even parking lots. Every time when I delivered sleeping bags with my

2002-11-14T11:41:00.000-05:00

Provide 24 x 7 Service Center for the Homeless on Street I just wrote a letter to New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in respond to today's news Police arresting homeless at greater rate just like I respond to all mayors in the US should there be a homeless news that I monitor daily on hundreds of newspaper show up. Here is the letter: Dear Mayor, I am very concerned about the arrest of

2002-11-13T23:17:00.000-05:00

Help the Homeless Find Affordable Housing and Jobs I just came across this message from Homeless.Org saying finding affordable housing and jobs are the most important help to the homeless. It has been reported that the types of assistance homeless adults felt they needed were help finding a job, help finding affordable housing, and help paying for housing. However, the main types of assistance

2002-11-11T17:16:00.000-05:00

San Francisco Mayor, William Brown, Replies Below is the reply from Mayor of San Francisco to my suggestions on Proposition N and homeless solutions, and he agrees almost all except hesitating to increase tax on alcohol and cigarettes afraid that business could lost to neighborhood. I have replied and quoted the statistics of New York City, after increasing tax 20 times of cigarettes from 8

2002-11-07T12:12:00.000-05:00

Cell Phone is a Must for any HomelessIn Thursday, November 7, 2002 Voice-mail box for homeless and poor faces funding loss, it is talking about the award winning voice mail system using by 30,000 homeless people across the nation since 1991. I have to say, it is a good chance for social services or any individual or charity organizations who help homeless to accept the fact that a cell phone is

2002-11-06T10:51:00.000-05:00

Solutions to Homeless Problem of Cities like San Francisco I have been monitoring the Proposition N news for a while till the result came out today. Basically, it is an argument of various of proposals of distribution of the existing insufficent funding of either to be cash assistance or providing service to the homeless. Since it is a zero sum types of thinking and proposals, no matter what

2002-11-05T11:00:00.000-05:00

File Class Action to Remove Common Barriers to Prevent Homeless from Getting Off Street The most powerful means to help homeless people is "Class Action" to Remove Barriers that prevent Homeless from getting off street. For example, PSE&G in New Jersey, and similar engergy service provides across nation, charges$300 deposit to homeless people or low income families in order to provide electric

2002-11-03T13:50:00.000-05:00

Ask Your Mayor to Try Homeless Life to Improve Homeless Services Every time I saw either mayor or the President serving in the soup kitchen on TV during Thanksgiving, I felt they should try to wait in line of soup kitchen during any regular day, especially, raining or snowing day, or sleep in one of the single man sheltor annonimously; that way, they will have the first hand desperated feeling

2002-11-02T23:43:00.000-05:00

Let Desperated Tenant Break the Lease and Give Cash Credit to Unemployed Tenants Recently, I had another tenant who is the president of a consulting firm. He called me that he had to break the lease and return the condo back to me because his consultants from 36 down to 14 and projected to be 6 next year, and his company could not afford to hold the condo and use it as guest house of his

2002-11-01T22:30:00.000-05:00

Cash Assistance Is the Best Help to the Homeless I believe CASH is always the best thing, and when I helped homeless people in Greater New York area, I always give the homeless or panhandlers CASH. Why? For example, I used to give them something I though they would need and I thought I would need if I were a homeless, but it often wrong. For example, I am an expert user of Entertainment coupon

2002-10-31T01:28:00.000-05:00

Treat Your Tenant Nice Can Reduce Homeless Families I just rented out a one bedroom condo to a black couple who came from Harlem area of New York City. I did not check their credit, nor did I asked proof of income ...etc. I simply showed the unit to them, and they loved it, and I rented to them tonight at 10pm. I gave them the keys and they could move right in tomorrow, 10-31-02, because they

2002-10-29T14:57:00.000-05:00

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2002-10-22T00:18:00.000-04:00

US Government Should Provide Child Support to Parents Sister McGeady mentioned in Nun rescues troubled shelter and its youths helped lots of homeless kids run away from their home, and she blames the breakdown of the American family for so many children leaving home. It is very true, but I want to tell you that the major reason American family breakdown is financial reason, and I have realized

2002-10-20T18:27:00.000-04:00

Sell Donated Hotel and Use Proceeds to Prevent Unemployed Families from Evicted New York Times article Bloomberg's Shift of Homeless to Hotels Alarms Some Neighborhoods by Joseph Bergen , talking about all sorts of complains from the neighborboods of a new sheltor converted from a donated Best Western hotel. It could have been better if the donee, Salvation Army, sold the donated Best Western

2002-10-19T00:22:00.000-04:00

Better Sell at Great Discount to the Homeless at Student Cafeteria After reading YCC resolves to divert leftovers to homeless, BY KATHERINE STEVENS, Published Friday, October 18, 2002 , I posted the following opinion to the Yale Daily News discussion box. Posted at: 10/19/02 12:15:44 AM Posted by: Mr Cheng (as entered by poster) Give the left over food to homeless making the homeless 2nd class

2002-10-17T21:28:00.000-04:00

Encourage College Students Find Affordable Housing for Homeless Reading Students spend a night being homeless by Scott Sisco on Bowling Green Daily News, KY on 10-17-02 , I feel the activity may be very educational and that fit into the spirit of the proposed Homeless Awareness and Prevention Education Program. But it would be much more constructive if there is an activity for the college

2002-10-17T13:44:00.000-04:00

Relax the Restrictions of Section 8 Program The Boston Herald article City unveils plan to help homeless families find housing reminds me on all the pain I incurred helping a homeless family looking for housing qualified for Section 8 Program several years ago. The Section 8 program required them to rent 3 or 4 bedroom house due to the size of the family, single mother with 5 sons, but the

2002-10-16T16:14:00.000-04:00

Admit Homelessness Can NOT Be Ended The organization National Alliance to End Homelessness says that their mission is to mobilize the nonprofit, public and private sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness. The goal is very aggressive, but we have to admit that homelessness can not be ended. You may help a homeless person to get off street or help a homeless family to obtain a

2002-10-14T17:54:00.000-04:00

Give $20 Bill to the Homeless You See Walking on the street at New York City, I will give the homeless panhandler $20 bill to help him. Why? Because I do not think a coin or even a dollar bill will make much help, and giving the homeless $20 bill would not make me poor. If I encountered too many homeless people, I would skip my lunch or dinner to get my budget balanced. Sometimes, I have to

2002-10-12T22:14:00.000-04:00

Provide Homelessness Awareness and Prevention Education Program in School While wearing the DARE ( Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Tshirt of my kid and attending DARE graduation, I was wondering it may be very important to have a similar education program to teach students about homelessness and try to prevent it from happening to themselves when they grow up, just like DARE to prevent them

2002-10-12T19:16:00.000-04:00

Relax the Restrictions of Section 8 Program The Boston Herald article City unveils plan to help homeless families find housing reminds me on all the pain I incurred helping a homeless family looking for housing qualified for Section 8 several years ago. The Section 8 program required them to rent 3 or 4 bedroom house due to the size of the family, single mother with 5 sons, but the money

2002-10-11T15:40:00.000-04:00

Require All Mayors in the US Two Weeks of Homeless Life I have always believed the service providers should themselves use their services in order to understand the quality of their service and improve it at the customer's view. So, I was always wondering if it could be made a law that require the mayors of the US to experience homeless life for, say, two weeks, for the term, and live

2002-10-10T23:17:00.000-04:00

FREE Transit Pass to the Homeless Reading a news article about homeless research by Helen Gardiner, a researcher with the University of Calgary, I found one of the so called surprising result is that the homeless need a free transit pass to find job. However, it is not surprising to me at all, but it costs $60,000 to do the research. In New York City, whenever I saw a homeless need help on

2002-10-10T23:00:00.000-04:00

Why I Create Homeless123 Blog? I have been helping lots of homeless people in the Greater New York area using my own money and accumulated lots of knowledge of helping all kinds of homeless people get off street in a very cost effective way. Sometimes, I feel I am at the Ph.D level on the subject of homeless issue, whereas many homeless articles from newspaper are just at the grammer