Former Army sergeant Arnold Bradley has been living in an unheated GMC van since he was laid off from an automotive parts company four months ago. Every night, he finds a street that seems safe and settles down in his van, which is filled with his clothes and household items. On Saturday, the 49-year-old veteran broke down and cried as he stood in the Prince George’s County Sports and Learning Complex surrounded by people who were there to help him and other homeless people. He held a gray sweatshirt that said “Army.” Read full article > >

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Helping hand for veterans, homeless in Prince George’s

Homeless teenagers who have stayed at Sylvia’s Place in Manhattan paint a picture of the shelter as dirty, overcrowded and unsafe.

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Sylvia’s Place Faces Licensing Problems

From Los Angeles to Wall Street, homeless men and women have joined the protesters in large numbers, and divisions have arisen across the country about how much, if at all, to embrace them.

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Dissenting, or Seeking Shelter? Homeless Stake a Claim at Protests

A different approach to providing housing is having success at convincing the chronic homeless to move inside.

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N.Y.C. Makes Progress Helping Bronx’s Chronic Homeless Adults

The decoys in police lineups are often drawn from homeless shelters and street corners, but in the Bronx, one man plays the role of casting director for detectives.

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A Casting Director for Police Lineups

The Obama administration is ramping up civil rights enforcement against local police nationwide, opening a number of investigations to determine whether officers are guilty of brutality or discrimination against Hispanics and other minorities. In recent months, the Justice Department has begun inquiries into major city police departments such as Portland, Ore ., where officers shot several people who had mental health issues, and Seattle, where police were accused of gunning down a homeless Native American woodcarver. The department issued a scathing report earlier this month accusing Puerto Rico police of a “staggering level of crime and corruption.’’ Read full article > >

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Leave 300,000 homeless in Karachi.

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Floods Cripple Pakistani City

Scores of area nonprofit agencies that serve the homeless are feeling uncertain about their futures in the wake of news that an annual downtown walkathon sponsored by troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae will end after this year’s Nov. 19 event on the Mall. Fannie Mae, which has suffered since the 2008 economic meltdown, announced quietly in June plans to replace the big walk on the Mall with local mini-walks, a move that agency spokeswoman Amy Bonitatibus said is an expansion of the program. But many of the nonprofit agencies that provide services to the Washington area’s nearly 12,000 homeless people say they are concerned that the smaller walks won’t raise the same amount of money or public awareness as a big national Mall event. Read full article > >

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Teams from 18 cities gather for a national tournament for the homeless on the Southwest waterfront. Read full article > >

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Far fewer people died or were left homeless by last year’s devastating earthquake than claimed by Haitian leaders, a report commissioned by the U.S. government has concluded — challenging a central premise behind a multibillion-dollar aid and reconstruction effort. The report, a copy of which was obtained Monday by The Associated Press, estimates that the death toll was between 46,000 and 85,000, far below the Haitian government’s official figure of 316,000. The report was prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development but has not yet been publicly released. Read full article > >

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US govt report says far fewer people died in Haiti quake than originally estimated

Brian David Mitchell, the homeless street preacher who abducted, raped and kept a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captive for

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A terrible way to go: police in southwest Ohio report that a homeless man was crushed to death in a recycling truck that had picked up materials in a bin outside a shopping center. Paul Wilder, 44, had been sleeping inside the bin overnight, and was…

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Homeless Man Crushed in Recycling Truck

A priest who once worked alongside Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, will head one of Washington’s largest private providers of services to those most in need, including immigrants, the homeless and people with disabilities.

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Native Washingtonian to lead Catholic Charities

In Orlando, Fla., homeless students are flourishing at Fern Creek Elementary School, where 20 percent of the students live in shelters.

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On Education: Homeless, but Finding Sanctuary at School

The number of homeless families in the Washington region rose nearly 10 percent during the economic downturn, according to data released Wednesday as part of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ annual survey of the homeless.

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