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Homeless for a day: Kids learn what it’s like
Kate Santich
Sentinel Staff Writer
August 6, 2009
Twelve-year-old Trinity Fore was roused too early from sleep by the clanging of a ladle on a pot. She choked down a stale doughnut and water for breakfast and had 30 seconds to grab something to wear from a pile of hand-me-downs. Then, before she had a chance to wash her face or brush her teeth, she was hustled out into the dawn along the streets of Parramore, a homeless man as her guide.
It was what you might call Compassion Camp — a 24-hour immersion experiment this week to help young people understand a life very different from their own. For the rest of that hot, sticky morning, Trinity and 30 of her young friends would have an all-too-vivid taste of homelessness. They would be rebuffed as panhandlers, threatened with arrest by a police officer and shadowed by a drunken man who wanted to enlighten them on various government conspiracies.
Add comment August 7, 2009
Orlando 3rd ‘meanest’ city for homeless, study finds
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Advocacy groups rank Top 10 cities that ‘criminalize’ homelessness
Kate Santich
Sentinel Staff Writer
July 14, 2009
The City Beautiful? How about “The City Mean”?
Two national advocacy groups for the homeless ranked Orlando as the third “meanest” city in the nation Tuesday, citing a trend toward criminalizing activities that come with living on the streets, such as sleeping in parks or panhandling.
In a report from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless, Orlando ranked behind Los Angeles and St. Petersburg on a Top 10 “meanest cities” list, which also included Gainesville (No. 5) and Bradenton (No. 9).
Add comment July 23, 2009
