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Recession to bring more people to huge homelessness event

By: Tamara Barak Aparton
Examiner Staff Writer
10/25/09 4:51 PM PDT

City officials predict tough economic times will bring more than 2,000 people to an event offering services for the homeless on Wednesday.

The 20th Project Homeless Connect event will take place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at 10 a.m. More than 1,000 volunteers are expected to be on-hand to help homeless people connect with the under-one-roof services.

The event is expected to draw a larger crowd due to more people struggling financially, organizers said.

tbarak@sfexaminer.com




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Starchild

Oct 25, 2009

The failure to allow these small homes (see previous comment) to be built on small parcels of unused public land in SF is a consequence of the government's tendency to keep people in dependency in order to fuel its own bureaucracy, rather than helping them.

Compared with this statist, poverty-perpetuating approach, a truly laissez-faire free market system would result in more people being housed and cared for in better conditions. Short of that, the compassionate thing to do is eliminate taxpayer funding of 6-figure salaries, and put the money toward building Jim Reid houses for those living on the streets.

 


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