Homelessness
Options in Abuse: Homelessness or Domestic Violence
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | July 16, 2020 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections | 1 Comment
Abuse victims. “Why does she stay?” It’s a simple question. The answer is not.
COVID Hotel
by Dee Mansi | July 12, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
The UK Vincentian Family is working to eradicate the poverty of homelessness – now and for all time.
Homeless Advocate Murdered On Park Bench
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | July 9, 2020 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections | 0 Comments
Paul Behler was a founding member of the advocacy group Housing Our Neighbors; helped start Baltimore’s first street newspaper, Word on the Street, and was part of a Faces Of Homelessness Speakers Bureau.
“Only the Vincentian Family came to help us”
by .famvin | July 5, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Latin America is now the epicenter of COVID-19. The Vincentian Family has stepped up to the challenge and continues to work with the poor.
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This Christmas, help a family get a home
by Vincentian Homeless Alliance | Dec 13, 2020 | News
Let us take the time to consider the many families around the world who are, right now, experiencing homelessness, living in inadequate housing, and are exhausted by natural disaster and conflict.
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What Do “We” Share With Homeless People?
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | Dec 10, 2020 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections
Mental illness is a major problem for the entire US population – not just the homeless population. The difference is the problems are aggravaated by homelessness.
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500 New Houses for the Homeless in Australia
by Vincentian Homeless Alliance | Dec 6, 2020 | News
His life changed when he accessed one of the new 502 housing units that make up the latest “13 Houses” Campaign project, the first in Sydney and New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Global Homeless Day 5-5-2014
by John Freund, CM | Feb 15, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Since so many in the Vincentian Family are working to address the immediate effects and the long term solcutions to homelessness this new even should be of interest. Would you like to draw attention to the problems homeless and poor are suffering in your area and give...
Thoughts on a requiem for the homeless
by John Freund, CM | Feb 3, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The following story got me thinking.... (see concluding thought after the story) The Pope's almoner has celebrated Mass in Rome in memory of the poor and homeless who have lost their lives due to inadequate living conditions and abandonment. Archbishop Konrad...
Vulnerabilities of young homeless people
by John Freund, CM | Jan 28, 2014 | Vincentian Family
Lack of age-appropriate emergency shelter leaving vulnerable young homeless people at risk says DePaul UK. Responding to Homeless Link's latest report, "Young and Homeless 2013", which revealed a lack of youth-specific emergency accommodation, Martin Houghton-Brown,...
Pope’s visit to group occupying church
by John Freund, CM | Jan 27, 2014 | Pope
The Huffington Post tells the story of the impact of the Pope's visit to Tor Sapienza, one of the Rome's roughest neighborhoods. Fifteen Italian families live in the deconsecrated church where the parish was previously located -- they occupied the building in October...
Homeless Action Week – model for others?
by John Freund, CM | Jan 24, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty & Homelessness Action Week has been running each year since 2008. It brings together two special Sundays which have been marked in UK churches for many years: Homelessness Sunday and Poverty Action Sunday. See their suggestions for action each day of this...