2008 Street Survey Report Is Out Now!

The Homeless Alliance has released its 2008 Street Survey Report and it can be read at www.wnyhomeless.org
There has been significant coverage of the story in our local media. The Buffalo News wrote the below article:
Buffalo News Street Survey Report Coverage
And WGRZ did the following report (video link):
http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=59449&catid=13
We will be posting some salient points and highlights [...]

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NYC Starts Measuring Poverty Differently

Though poverty advocates have been saying it for years, the inadequacy of the “poverty level” that we have in the US really hit home when coordination the 2008 Poverty Challenge.
Mayor Bloomberg in NYC found that this poverty level particularly didn’t reflect the standard of living for families in the Big Apple. Therefore, NYC has begun [...]

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Couple Helps Working Poor in Rural WNY

Todd and Linette Crelly have been a part of the Homeless Alliance FOOD Project almost a year now. They have been interested in knowing how best to serve the needs of folks who are coming to their Trading Post Community Care Center in Springville. Linette has come to a number of community meetings and shared [...]

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Our 100th Blog Post! Devan Decicco given Sr. Jean Frank Award

With our 100th post we thought that it might be fitting to let our readers know that Devan DeCicco our Americorps/VISTA Education Coordinator who is the staff person most responsible for much of the content here on the blog was recently honored with the Sister Jean Frank Award by the Western New York Coalition for [...]

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Veterans Living on the Street: CNN Reports

CNN did a short story on Homeless Veterans in Washington, D.C., highlighting that post traumatic stress disorder is a contributing factor to homelessness and almost 2,000 Iraq War veterans around the country are homeless (according to the US Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs).
See the video here.

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