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END Homelessness Conference Next Week: What a Decade of Difference

Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Phyllis.

I wish that I could locate a copy of the 1998 National Alliance's conference workshops. There would be a very sharp contrast between those workshop topics and next week's agendas for workshops!

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One Anecdote, However Wretching, Does Not Tell the Whole Story of Housing First

Posted on February 6th, 2010 by Phyllis.

Monica Yant Kinney's column in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer (1/31/2010), on the basis of one person, "challenged" the practice of "housing first" in telling a troubling story, but just one story of how it is working in Philadelphia. I believe that balance was absent and intent a mystery. What follows is the message that I sent to her on Monday.

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BAD HOUSING

Posted on May 1st, 2009 by Phyllis.

Recently, I was asked why we consider a family or individual living in desperate housing conditions as “homeless”.

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Cheering for Change!

Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Phyllis.

On July 4, 2007, I met Barack and Michelle Obama with two hundred other people in Oskaloosa, Iowa. I thanked him for “giving us hope” and he smiled and moved on.