The encampment was cleared from Loomis St. on Thursday after the city received complaints from neighbors about trash and drug activity.
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Feedback 12/7
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County, shelters struggle with Cuomo’s homeless order
The unusually mild winter has allowed Monroe County, meaning both the community and the government, to dodge a serious, ongoing problem regarding a hard-to-serve segment of the area’s homeless population. When the temperature drops below a certain point, homeless people need to get indoors to stay safe; the National Coalition for the Homeless says that […]
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County to assist REACH homeless shelter
Monroe County officials will provide support for a temporary emergency homeless shelter after all. The Rochester Emergency Action Committee for the Homeless had sought $50,000 in funding from the county for its shelter, which opened November 30 on Main Street. But county officials rebuffed the request, ostensibly over concerns about how the shelter would handle […]
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A crisis for youth in crisis
The Hillside Family of Agencies stopped providing emergency housing for homeless and runaway youth earlier this year. The shelter, which operated since the 1970’s, has seen a considerate drop in state funding over the last several years. Hillside received $107,437 in runaway and homeless youth program funding from the state in 2008, and $29,150 in […]
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Mayor talks homelessness ahead of activists’ march
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards and leaders of human service agencies in the city and county held a press conference this morning to explain everything the city does for the area’s homeless. It can’t be a coincidence that members of many social-justice groups, including Take Back the Land-Rochester and Metro Justice, will hold a housing march […]
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Reader Feedback 6.4.03
The Aqueduct’s future, Elmwood’s widening, warnings for pesticides
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Reader feedback 4.23.03
Rural poor, the Johnson candidacy, the war, RPO support
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Homeless in the countryside
“I had a fire, and I had an accident,” says the man on the phone. He’s not telling the half of it. He and his wife and two pre-school boys are newly homeless — and holed up in a room-by-the-week motel in the northern Finger Lakes. The family’s story is a classic “one thing […]
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Follow the money
I’ve been hoping for years that Swillburg, to mention only one city neighborhood on my list, would get substantial “targeted investment” from higher levels of government. And lo and behold, as the season of good tidings peaked, the government took out its checkbook, wrote a big one ($25 million), and presented it in Swillburg. […]
