Posted June 11, 200619 yr CHART: Homeless demographics and homeless funding The DDN reports... Task force begins decade-long drive on homelessness An effort is under way to end chronic homelessness and reduce the rest of it within 10 years. By Margo Rutledge Kissell Staff Writer DAYTON | It's an ambitious goal: Try to end chronic homelessness in the community within 10 years while trying to reduce overall homelessness at the same time. After spending 18 months on a task force studying the problem, U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice believes the community is up to the challenge. "Certainly we can reduce it, if not eliminate it," he said. Dayton and Montgomery County are among more than 200 communities across the country trying to develop ways to combat homelessness to remain competitive for funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
June 11, 200619 yr Also from the 6/11/06 DDN: Campaign aims to get homeless off streets Community goal is to end chronic homelessness over 10-year period. By Margo Rutledge Kissell Staff Writer DAYTON | The way Jeff Collins sees it, he finally has his life back. "Being homeless is no way to live," said Collins, 32, who lived in Dayton's shelters and on the streets for three years after he got divorced, lost his job and his apartment in 2001. St. Vincent Hotel offered a bed, but the shelter often filled up quickly back then. When that happened, he slept in parks. Other times, in the cold, he'd walk the streets all night. Then, two years ago, a case manager at the Other Place day shelter told him about Housing First at Cobblegate, a new program that put chronically homeless single adults into housing... http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0611homeless.html
June 12, 200619 yr $23 million - astounding - the scale of social services spending is mind boggling. :-o
June 12, 200619 yr Compared to what? How much military equipment would that buy? How much pavement? How many miles of sewers? How many college rec centers? How much do we spend on farm subsidies?
June 12, 200619 yr ^ yes, I am on the same page with you. The question for me sometimes is "how much else could we buy for the unit cost of one F22?" With declining Federal funds us local folks need to step up to the plate. Contributing via the United Way to homeless shelters and food banks is one thing, but it seesm so little compared to the need the story continues on the shelter situation here and the plight of homeless families. For families, St. Vincent Hotel a 24-hour shelter The drive to deal with the homeless problem will include the relocation of the Other Place. By Margo Rutledge Kissell Staff Writer DAYTON — Carla Pitsinger is glad St. Vincent Hotel becomes a 24-hour shelter for families today. "I know that will make things 110 percent easier for families with kids," said the 41-year-old Clayton woman, who has been coming to the overnight shelter with her daughter, Hannah, 16, since they lost their subsidized apartment a month ago. Extending the hours of the 120 W. Apple St. shelter — while continuing its role as an emergency, overnight shelter for single adults — was made possible through $500,000 Montgomery County commissioners approved in May. It was the first chunk of funding aimed at the homeless problem as part of a new community initiative...
June 12, 200619 yr The Dayton Daily News ....check out their op-ed on the issue: OUR VIEW on ending homelessness Make life on street thing of the past By the Dayton Daily News Montgomery County Administrator Deborah Feldman is refusing to accept the conventional wisdom that homelessness is a sad fact of life that can be managed but not solved. Next week she'll present a task force's findings and recommendations on how to actually fix the problem to the Montgomery County and Dayton City commissions. The ideas deserve enthusiastic support — they're about good government and moral leadership. What the task force found defied its expectations: Families with children, not down-and-out drifters, make up most of Montgomery County's homeless. Poverty puts them on the street. Timely payments of $500 to prevent evictions could keep many from ever becoming homeless. That's a wise investment compared with the $5,000 it takes, on average, to find new housing for a family — to say nothing of the incalculable misery experienced by a child constantly on the move...
June 13, 200619 yr Since you asked, $24 million would buy half of one F-18 fighter jet, 15 miles of new or replaced streets, 90 miles of sewer, or one or two college rec centers. I don't know how much is spent on farm subsidies. According to the City of Dayton web site, the city spent about $17 million on captial transportation projects in 2005. Yes, I know that government spending is huge, but it's still mind boggling that $24 million was spent on social services. I just have to say "wow."
September 16, 200618 yr From the 9/15/06 DDN: Panel on homeless outlines solutions But co-chairs warn resolving the issue will require strong community support and more money. By Margo Rutledge Kissell Staff Writer Friday, September 15, 2006 DAYTON — Two men tapped to head an advisory board that will play a key role in implementing the 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness said Thursday it will take strong support from community leaders and additional funds to accomplish it. Businessman Walt Hibner and retired Dayton city official Charles Meadows were appointed by Montgomery County and Dayton commissioners to co-chair the board, comprised of leaders from various sectors of the community... http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/local/2006/09/15/ddn091506homeless.html
September 17, 200618 yr Well, since Mr Schuster doesn't like seeing the homeless people on the street maybe he could make a big contribution here.
June 8, 200718 yr From the 2/28/07 DDN: Homeless count provides glimpse of problem By Margo Rutledge Kissell Staff Writer Wednesday, February 28, 2007 DAYTON — As a first-of-its-kind assessment on homelessness was being unveiled in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, local officials provided a glimpse into the scope of the problem locally. A "point in time" count, conducted on the evening of Jan. 26 and early morning hours of Jan. 27 by the Homeless Solutions Policy Board and volunteers, found 785 homeless adults and children living in the area. Of those individuals, 719 were staying in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs; 66 others were living on the street... http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/02/28/ddn022807homelessweb.html
June 21, 200717 yr Both from the 3/12/07 DDN: Groups: Area's homeless need legal aid By Stephanie Irwin Staff Writer Monday, March 12, 2007 DAYTON — Going hungry is not the biggest problem facing the homeless in Dayton. "People in Dayton don't starve," said Migdalia "Mickie" Delemos, an outreach worker with The Other Place, a daytime shelter on Patterson Boulevard. "There are enough soup kitchens around here that feed these people." Their problem, she said, is finding permanent shelter... http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/03/12/ddn031207homelessinside.html
June 21, 200717 yr I ran across the junkers and scrappers during some of my pix expeditions to the industrial parts of the city. I think they are camped out near railroad yards and so forth. I also think there are some homless folks hiding out in the open spaces of freeway interchanges.
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