This past Monday evening found Brown University students listening to a panel of five local people from the Providence, Rhode Island area who are homeless or were formerly homeless sharing their stories. The “Faces of Homelessness” panel helped begin a week of awareness building as part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.

At the national level, the week long event is being co-sponsored by the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness.

To read an article which reports on Monday's event, go to:

Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Brown Daily Herald
[Providence, Rhode Island]
Volume CXXXVII, No. 117
Local homeless share their stories

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To learn more concerning homelessness in Rhode Island, go to:

Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless

In the latest edition of Real Change News, Andrea Iglar writes about the realities of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) encountered by people with disabilities, along with what they can face when dealing with the Social Security Administration (SSA).

To read the article, go to:

November 14 - 27, 2002 edition
Real Change News
Bereft
How Social Security Failed the Disabled
By Andrea Iglar

An article published in the November 2002 edition of the Street News Service written by Al Bliss.

Al Bliss is a homeless writer, whose work has been published in Spare Change and Real Change newspapers, as well as Harper’s magazine.

To read the article, go to:

November 15, 2002
Street News Service
Experimental Academies and Provisional Monasteries
By Al Bliss

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Another published offering by Al Bliss available online via FindArticles.com:

September 2001
Harper's Magazine
Three Pages
Homeless Man Interviews Himself.(Interview)
By Al Bliss

Food for thought.


February 15, 2002
Personal Choices Magazine
Resources for Ecovillage Living
Issue 3
A Secret In The News: The country's permanent poor
By Ben H. Bagdikian
A ZNet Commentary, 3 April 2001

A must read article.

Hearts and Minds:
A Conversation with the Bush Administration’s
point man on homeless policy,
Philip Mangano
May 08, 2002
Street News Service
By Linda Larson
of Spare Change, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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To learn more about the federal agency which Philip Mangano
was appointed to lead, go to the
Interagency Council on the Homeless (ICH)
http://www.ich.gov

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Another must read & related item.

Highly recommended!

To read the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH)
response to the Bush Administration's chronic homelessness initiative, go to:

NCH Announces Opposition to "Chronic Homeless" Initiative

Calls on Congress and the White House to Abandon Harmful Rhetoric and Policy
Initiatives, Change Focus to Ending Homelessness for Everyone