The Hollywood Dorms

Because sometimes we are just “in between homes” and need a night or a week, or a month or so in a bed while we prepare to go to our next home. It sounds interesting, like a hotel but not as posh – just a place to come inside and rest while moving between homes […]

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Rent for your Homeless Shelter

Should you pay for shelter? Where would the money come from, where does it go, how is it spent and is it far? In New York the plan is to charge rent for shelter residents. The Huffington Post has an article from Covenant House touting their approach to rent and why it is character building. […]

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www.preblestreet.org

Check out Portland Maine’s “Preble Street” and the new Women’s Housing it is opening this month for 40 previously homeless women who will have apartments, semi private bedrooms and a quiet shelter space , this is a HUGE change from sleeping on cots in the corner of large shelter rooms. The Portland Press Herald has […]

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Job openings in the Homeless arena

If you have a good heart, don’t need a lot of money, have great problem solving skills, are good with people,  and come equipped with working boundaries: consider a job in helping the Homeless. I cruised through Craig’s List and found these openings in LA: HOMELESS Youth Shelter outreach Housing coordinator (Santa Monica) at OPCC. […]

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