12-14-11: The Realities of Homelessness
December 14, 2011 at 9:06 am 2 comments
About 4,000 people on any given night are homeless in Baltimore. We talk with Kevin Lindamood, director of Healthcare for the Homeless, Nan Marie Astone of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and Mark Schumann, the blogger behind Being Homeless in Baltimore, about what it’s really like to live on the street.
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Robert Strupp | December 14, 2011 at 10:17 am
About 4,000 people on any given night are homeless in Baltimore-Why not use some of those vacant city owned properties to shelter the homeless?
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Mark Schumann | December 15, 2011 at 12:54 pm
The city owns thousands of homes that are vacant. The new shelter is already filled up to capacity. It costs 28$ a night to put someone in the sheter, you could afford remodel abandoned buildings and house people in a more cost affective way