Shelters, soup kitchens turning people away, study finds

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5241589.html


Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans.

The report being released today by the National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness found a 28 percent rise last year in emergency food assistance requests, and a 27 percent increase in requests for emergency shelter.

The organization surveyed 900 agencies in 32 states and gathered information from urban and rural areas. About one-quarter of the emergency food providers said they had to turn away requests for food because of a lack of resources.

And three-quarters of emergency shelter providers reported turning people away for the same reason.
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so where is all that faith based money? is there a report telling how the religions are taking up the slack?

where is that faith based money going?

since things are only going to get worse......

Then we wouldn't be in this mess.

Bryant
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27718-2005Feb15.html

Hunger and homelessness are increasing while government support is falling in the Washington region and across the country, according to national survey of 900 emergency food and shelter providers released yesterday.

Requests for emergency food assistance and shelter rose at agencies across Maryland, the District and Virginia over the past year, and many agencies in all three jurisdictions reported having to turn people away because of a lack of resources, stated the report by the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness.

"We're continuing to see an uptick in requests," said Bill Ewing, of the Maryland Food Bank, which feeds an estimated 45,000 people a week throughout much of the state. "As an organization we've never felt we've met the demand."

Ed Rea, director of the Arlington-Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless, also said that because of a shortage of funds, the coalition recently had to cut back its local transitional program designed to help homeless families get back on their feet.

But, but, I thought the economy was improving?

:puke:

over 20,000 HOMELESS human beings now in OUR Nation's Capital...EVERYWHERE, homeless people are wandering around with their plastic bags, old shopping carts...WHOLE families are now homeless here, hungry, sick, with small children, and HALF are Veterans with more pouring in EVERY DAY from the continuous bush* WARS....right outside OUR White House, bush* could TRIP over these human beings if he ever walked outside....


Veterans sleeping on the heating grates in OUR Nation's Capital, January 2005