Street Survey – Wrap Up

The street survey won’t officially wrap up of course until we have entered in all the data, run our reports, and make policy recommendations based off of the data collected. That being said – the 24 hour survey period from 8 am on Thursday until 8 am on Friday went extremely well.
We estimate that [...]

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Street Survey 6 pm

Apparently we got some great coverage of the issue on WIVB (Channel 4 here in Buffalo). If they post the story online then we will post a link here.
Our 6 pm count is up to 625 surveys given. Of course there may be some duplicates in that number but we have some questions [...]

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Street Survey – 2:30pm

 
We are in the 6th hour of the Survey; 18 more to go. So far, 381 surveys have been returned.
I went to St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy for their lunch service to administer surveys. I prefaced each survey by letting the respondents know that they didn’t have to answer any question they were not comfortable [...]

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Street Survey – Noon Update

So far so good. Of course we have had a couple of miscommunications but when you are dealing with over 70 locations and 200 volunteers you will have these kinds of hiccups. All in all, we are very pleased.
Rich Newberg from Channel 4 is supposed to be coming by our headquarters shortly to [...]

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Street Survey Underway!

The first group of surveys are out. It was exciting to see so many volunteers heading out into the community to begin the surveys.
Right now we are conducting surveys at Living Opporunities of DePaul, Cornerstone Manor, the Buffalo City Mission, AIDS Community Sevices, Buffalo General Hospital, the VA Drop in Center, the Department of [...]

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2008 Street Survey – Watch this space

The Homeless Alliance of Western New York will be conducting a survey of homeless and at risk individuals and families in Buffalo and Erie County tomorrow beginning at 8 am. The survey will be conducted by over 200 volunteers at over 70 locations in Buffalo and Erie County including survey sites in Amherst, Hamburg, [...]

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Poverty

The last major speech Dr. King delivered, four days before his assassination, was on poverty at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1968. . The full text of Dr. King´s sermon entitled “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” containing the quotes below can be read here:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/sermons/680331.000_Remaining_Awake.html
“There is another thing closely related to racism [...]

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Seattle Programs Prove that Housing First Works

The National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C., has released the below statistics to describe the gains made by developing Housing First models. Though those who were homeless and have been placed in these programs have benefited the most, the benefit is not limited to them: homeless service providers see a decrease in the [...]

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Albany Times Union Editorial calls for Raise in the Welfare Grant

Speaking of raises …
First published: Sunday, January 13, 2008
It’ll be easy enough to be confused, if not overwhelmed, with the state Legislature back in session and the special interests descending upon lawmakers peddling causes both noble and ignoble.
There ought to be perhaps more pressure than ever to raise the pay of the state’s judges for [...]

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The cost of necessities is going up, and families are feeling the squeeze

Earlier this year, we commented on a series run by MSNBC called “Gut Check America” which looked at the ways in which the “middle class” is feeling the financial strain of the rising costs of living within the United States.  A recent article in the Buffalo News explores the impact of the increasing costs locally [...]

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