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french preist Abbe Pierre started taking in homeless at a house in Neuilly-Plaisance
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in SF the Raphael House at 1065 Sutter St. opened the first homeless shelter for families
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In San Francisco Rev. Floyd Lotito founded St, Anthonys Dining Room, a free-meal program for seniors, the disabled and the homeless.
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an estimated 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America. forming a line across the countryto raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless.
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Ted Hayes founded Dome village in Los Angeles as a cooperative for 30 homeless people. in 2006 the project was dismantled and the domes were actioned off online
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torrential rains in N. Korea wiped out crops and left half-a-million people homeless.
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Im China the Yangtze River threatened to burst its banks. workers used 500 tons of rice in sacks to fill gaps in the banks.Millions have been left homeless and 716 were reported dead.
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A 7.1 earthquake hit in northeasten Iraq centered on the town of Qaen. more than 2,400 people were reported killed. the death toll was reduced to 1,560 with 60,000 left homeless
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In North Korea a tidal wave from a passing typhoon struck and destroyed some700,000 tons of corn and left 28,000 people homeless.
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In North Korea Kim Jong the second ordered the establishment of the "9-27" camps of orphaned and homeless children to "normalize" the country.
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The US HUD established a new program with a hotline to help the nations homeless estamated at 600,000 to 1 million people.
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in Afganistan a 5.9 earthquake hit the providance of Takhar in the northeast at the junction of the Hindu Kush and Pamir mountain ranges where hills collapsed into each other making a huge crater. the number dead was later reported to be 2,300 and 8,000 left homeless.
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It was reported that flooding of the Yangtze River had left 1.8 million people homeless. summer flooding left some 725 people dead.
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In Nigeria it was reported the floodgates were opened on the Niger River at 2 dams,Jebba and Shiriro, to prevent Shiriro Lake from overflowing its banks. 400 villages were submerged leaving 300,000 people homeless and some 500 people were estimated to have been drowned.
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In Romania dozens of orphaned and homeless teenagers protested and urged the government to provide jobs and housing.
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In Zambia 12,000 people lost their homes when the spillwways of Kariba Dam in southern Siavonga were opened to relieve pressure.
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it is reported that 9 people died in Ethiopia's Afar Region after the Awash River burst its banks and inundated the Danakil Lowlands. 30,000 people were left homeless
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In Papua New Guinea a tidal wave followed a magnitude 8.0 earthquake and left at least one person dead and at some 5,000 people homeless
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It was reported that NYC estimated 37,000 homeless
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Japan, which had begun counting the homeless for the first time, estimated the homeless population of 25,000 compared to 600,000 in the US.
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In the Philippines a huge fire in a Manila shantytown hurt at least 23 people, destroyed thousands of homes and left about 25,000 residence homeless.
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In Kenya a fire raced through a Nairobi slum, destroying hundreds of ramshackle tin and timber houses and leaveing 4,500 families homeless
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A California State appeals court restored Mayor Newsom's Care Not Cash program for homeless people in SF. Some 2,497 homeless people were recieving monthly welfare checks for as much as $410. the checks were cut to $59 with housing or emergency shelter provided.By Dec 2005 the number or homeless recieving checks dropped to 391.
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A 2007 report said there was 744,000 homeless people in the United States this year.
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a UN official said more than 2.5 people have been left homeless by the devastating 7.6-magnitude earthquake that shook India and Pakistan.
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Project Homeless Connect, a one-day homeless aid fair that began in SF a year ago, went national with attention given to some 6,000 homeless and 21 US cities.
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Sarasota, Flordia, was named the 2005 meanest city in America by the national Coalaition for the homeless after the city council banned sleeping outside overnight without permission on public or private property.
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Mayor Newsom and Philip Mangano, the governments head of homelessness, announced that SF had recieved $19.7 million in federal funds to fight homelessness.
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the US government said the nation has 754,000 homeless people, filling emergency shelters through the year and spilling into special seasonal shelters in the coldest months.
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homelessness in Greece was estimated at 20,000