Re: Agencies create plan for HOMELESS families in motels displaced by DNC

Trey driving your car without big oil.

YOU MAY HAVE A BIG WALK.

On Aug 28, 9:56 am, thematte...@aol.com wrote:
> why do you bend over for big oil, and suck the balls of the wealthy job exporters, what do you get, besides ridicule and a imminant stroke?
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> From: lew <lewc...@aol.com>
> To: Open Debate Political Forum IMHO <opendebateforum@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 9:36 am
> Subject: Re: Agencies create plan for HOMELESS families in motels displaced by DNC
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> Tha the best you can do to protect the hiomeless.
> It's not my convention..
> It's Obama's who briught hope nd cg]hange to these homeless people.
> On Aug 28, 9:33 am, thematte...@aol.com wrote:
>  so?
>
>  kreepy - you are a certified moron....
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>  From: lew <lewc...@aol.com>
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>  Subject: Agencies create plan for HOMELESS families in motels displaced by DNC
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>  Agencies create plan for HOMELESS  families in motels displaced by DNC
>  Plan for DNC combines financial aid with beds at shelters and
>  ongregations
>  DRUDGEREPORT.COM
>  CHARLOTTE, N.C. Mecklenburg County, the Wells Fargo Foundation and the
>  emple Beth El Religious School are among the contributors to a
>  20,000 fund to help keep low-income families from being displaced
>  rom motels by rising rates during the Democratic National Convention.
>  The motel fund is part of a multi-tier approach homeless services
>  gencies unveiled Monday in anticipation of as many as 100 families
>  eing displaced.
>  Salvation Army officials say they already had heard from five families
>  hat lost lodging, including three that have moved temporarily into
>  he Center of Hope shelter for women and children. Two of those
>  amilies are headed by single fathers who have been raising their
>  hildren in motels, officials said.
>  The plan calls for using the motel fund to keep as many families as
>  ossible in their current motels, by either negotiating cheaper rents
>  r supplementing the money paid by the families.
>  In situations where a deal can't be worked out, the Urban Ministry
>  enter has revived its winter-time Room in the Inn program, in which
>  ongregations offer beds on a rotating basis. Charlotte Family Housing
>  s also part of the effort, along with A Child's Place and the
>  ounty's Community Support Services.
>  Urban Ministry officials said about 36 congregations have offered to
>  elp, including Covenant Presbyterian Church. In all, the program
>  xpects to have nearly 800 beds available for families over eight
>  ights.
>  "We are very grateful that they are so willing to serve when we don't
>  now very clearly what to expect," said Dale Mullennix of the Urban
>  inistry. "There are a lot of unknowns."
>  The Center of Hope created additional bed space for 10 families in its
>  oys & Girls Club meeting rooms. The agency will also act as a
>  ransportation hub, helping the children get to and from Charlotte
>  ecklenburg schools.
>  Annabelle Suddreth, executive director of A Child's Place, noted that
>  er agency served 2,200 children last year and 170 of the families
>  ived in motels at some point during the year.
>  She said the goal of the motel fund is to avoid disrupting the lives
>  f as many children as possible. A variety of businesses,
>  ongregations and individuals contributed to the fund, which will also
>  ay for transportation, food and staff needed to tend the families'
>  helter needs.
>  "Ninety percent of these families don't have their own transportation,
>  o the impact is that the children miss school," said Suddreth. "This
>  plan) is how the community is coming together for these families. No
>  ne agency or group is in charge. It's truly a community effort."
>  She added that the agencies do not begrudge the motels for raising
>  heir rates. In fact, she said, out of 30 hotels known to host
>  amilies served by A Child's Place, only 10 are raising rates for
>  hose families.
>  "They are simply doing their job. The convention was touted as a way
>  or people to make money," she said.
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