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National Alliance to End Homelessness - Daily Media Clips

The Tyra Banks Show -- Homelessness: It's Closer Than You Think

(aired 12/26/06)

Will Smith invited Tyra to a private screening of his movie, The Pursuit of Happyness. Will plays a man struggling to make ends meet for himself and his son, who ends up homeless. After the movie, Tyra told Will how much the movie touched her and made her want to help with the issue. She explained that 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and more than 3.5 million people are homeless. The homeless population has grown by 50% over the past 10 years, and the homeless mortality rate is nearly four times higher than the national average. Tyra went undercover as a homeless woman, living a day on skid row, to experience what it’s like to be homeless. Tyra was guided by Danielle, a 30-year-old woman who had been homeless for the last five years. Read more ...

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Homeless numbers decline

By KEVIN FAGAN San Francisco Chronicle " Scripps Howard News Service May 18, 2006

DENVER - Three years after the launch of the most aggressive nationwide strategy in a generation to solve homelessness, there is evidence that it may be working: The number of street people in cities across the United States has plummeted for the first time since the 1980s.

The drop-off reflected in street counts of the homeless taken over the past year has ranged from 30 percent in Miami and 28 percent in Dallas to 20 percent in Portland, Ore., and 13 percent in New York. In all, 30 jurisdictions reported declines in their homeless populations, including the 28 percent dip recorded in San Francisco a year ago and a 4 percent drop reported this week in Denver.

The figures emerged as more than 250 civic and social program leaders - all of whom are behind 10-year plans to end chronic homelessness across the nation - gathered in Denver last week to compare notes for the first time since the Bush administration began pushing for creation of the plans in 2003.

The plummeting homeless counts, taken in one-day tallies in shelters and streets at varying dates across the country, are "not an aberration," Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, said in an address to the National Summit for Jurisdictional Leaders. "They are part of a national trend.

"So does this mean we have done enough?" asked Mangano, President Bush's point man on the issue. "No. But are we doing better? Absolutely."

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