Finally, in May, the diligent volunteer moved into her own apartment and is working toward completing her bachelor’s degree in culinary management, WTOP reports.
Best is on her way to realizing her dreams, and continues to make giving back a regular part of her routine.
Spending hike sought to help end veterans homelessness | McClatchy Darren Spencer a former homeless veteran and his 18yearold son Lamont Spencer pose in their Tacoma Washington apartment Wednesday April 4 2012 | Lui Kit …
Chalaia Smith is determined to become something more than a statistic.
“There’s a stereotype with homeless youth – that we are all troublemakers, that we’ll always be homeless,” said the graduating Foss High School senior. Smith has other ideas. The 18-year-old is headed to Washington State University, with her eye on a career in veterinary medicine.
A good night’s sleep makes all the difference. When you’re homeless, any sleep would make a difference; a bed to sleep on, I would imagine, is what dreams are made of. Making dream come true for many people transitioning out of homelessness across America is the mission of a new social enterprise called Sleep With a Purpose (SWAP).
A shocking 45 percent of the nation’s estimated 131,000 homeless veterans are African-American, according to a new report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a well-known advocacy and research organization.
But being numb to homelessness has social costs that are greater than people realize. “Letting a lot of people become homeless it is not smart move,” Roman said of the fact that the stimulus monies that have kept homelessness at a steady rate are running out.
“It is costly in terms of causing an increase in health care costs, causing poor performance in schools, and making it hard to reduce unemployment.”
Non-profit housing is housing owned and managed by a private, non-profit group such as a church, an ethnocultural community or by a government. Non-profit housing can use both private funds and government subsidies to support a rent-geared-to-income program for low-income tenants.
Yet, investigators also found that doubled-up households (people living with other families) increased by 13 percent between 2009 and 2011. In addition, the number of severely housing cost burdened families (defined as families below the poverty line paying 50 percent or more of their monthly income on housing) went up by 22 percent in the same time period.
The community living and working to the east of Seattle U will learn more Monday night about a plan to create 18 units of “transitional” housing for military veterans. CHS reported on the plan to provide services for the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the East Spring facility earlier this year…
Child poverty has reached record levels with over 16 million children affected. One in 13 Americans are jobless, and many children are growing up with little hope for their future.
Association Against Homelessness in America 