No Teen Should Live On The Street

It’s a stormy and cool Wednesday summer evening in Keene, New Hampshire. A teen is scared, cold and alone. Sadly, this night is not terribly different from the 365 that have preceded it. Outside of a vacant building that she hoped to call home for the night there are flashing…

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8 Common Myths About Homelessness – Debunked

Originally published on Everyday Feminism Magazine on June 17, 2016 By Katherine Garcia and re-published here with their permission. We see them on our way to work and school. Pass by them when entering or leaving a store. We try to avoid their gaze. We try to ignore the twinge…

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7 Lessons on Why Homelessness Needs Our Urgent Attention

Originally published on Everyday Feminism Magazine on June 4, 2016 by Jon Greenberg and re-published here with their permission. We cannot make good decisions from a distance,” says Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization dedicated to fixing our broken criminal justice…

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Downtown Angels: Local activist completes MonOrchid mural raising awareness for homelessness

Originally published on Downtown Devil on February 5, 2016 By Holly Bernstein. “My daughter has a name and now she’s gone.” After receiving this Facebook message from a mother whose homeless daughter was murdered while living on the street, homelessness activist Jon Linton used social media to raise money to…

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