Rug pulled out from under the homeless

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.telegram.com/article/20110610/NEWS/106109778/-1/NEWS04

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=WT&Date=20110610&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=106109778&Ref=AR&MaxW=740

WORCESTER — Community Healthlink's triage center, designed for 25 beds for homeless people whose housing needs are being assessed, is groaning under the weight of three times that number.

The triage center had 75 overnight clients Wednesday because homeless people continue to be admitted and few are finding their way out into stable housing. Federal funds intended to subsidize market rate rents have apparently run out.

That leaves the triage center now exceeding the census of the former homeless shelter that it was created to supplant when that shelter overwhelmed its neighborhood.

On top of that, letters went out May 31 to 66 landlords and their136 tenants informing them that their rental subsidies will come to an end June 30, and telling the tenants they should make alternative arrangements.

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[Lifelong Protester]

1. Meanwhile, this country is awash in empty, soon to be decaying

foreclosed properties. Can't someone with imagination connect the dots here?

[phantom power]

2. No, they can't. And it is because the GOP won the meme war.

The new 3rd rail of politics is "anything that smells like it might be sort of like socialism"

Purchasing foreclosed homes for the homeless? That positively reeks of socialism.

[Lifelong Protester]

3. yep, I know that, but I can't quit asking useless rhetorical ??s