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The Giant Homeless Slumber Sleeping Party
By adamg on Thu, 07/13/2006 - 10:35am
That's what Jen Stewart calls the Boston Common these days:
... Now that the weather's warm, it becomes much more apparent just how many homeless people are sleeping on the Common. I feel like I'm walking through the world's biggest slumber party every morning. And not a happy, carefree, giggling 12 year old girl slumber party, either. Are they sleeping somewhere else during the cold months, or have we suddenly had a big influx of people with nowhere to go? ...
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In California there are Winter Shelters which are open Dec to March. Don't know if that is the case in Boston. A homeless man in Vermont was given a room to stay for the winter, now on the streets again. A man who was out of work due to a back injury, released by Doc to go back. A week later, his car "blew up" and his boss fired him, so he wasn't able to collect unemployment. No public transportation, rural area, lost his home, got a bus ticket to the nearest city hoping to find work. It's thought that there are already 400 Iraqi war Vets living on the streets. April blogs about how she went from homed to Van living. As does Keith. It's possible, that with the high cost of gas, poor people, living one paycheck away from homelessness, the numbers are increasing.