Homeless
1949 |
French priest Abbe Pierre (1912-2007) started taking in homeless at a house in Neuilly-Plaisance, a suburb of Paris. His project came to be called Emmaus and by 2006 grew include 350 communities in 40 countries, including 110 in France. Links: France, Homeless ![]() |
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1955 Feb 19 |
In San Francisco Kit Hing Hui (33), aka the "Phantom of Playland," was arrested while trying to break into the Golden Gate View coffee shop at 1004 Point Lobos Ave. The World War II veteran had lived in two caves at Lands End since 1949. Links: USA, SF, Homeless, Robbery ![]() |
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1972 |
In SF the Raphael House at 1065 Sutter St. opened as the city’s 1st homeless shelter for families. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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1972 |
Charles W. "Scott" Hope (d. 1997 at 74) co-founded the SF Network Ministries to serve San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. The non-denominational Christian church constructed affordable housing, operates a training center for residents and the homeless, provides pastoral care to people who are HIV positive and other works. He wrote for the Network Journal, a monthly publication of the Ministries. Links: USA, SF, AIDS, Homeless ![]() |
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1981 1991 |
James R. Harvey (1935-1996) served as CEO of the Transamerica Corp. He sold off much of the company’s diversified portfolio and refocused on its core business in insurance and financial services. He also moved the company into a philanthropic role that concentrated on hunger and homelessness in the SF Bay Area. Links: USA, Homeless, SF Bay Area ![]() |
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1981 |
In San Francisco Rev. Floyd Lotito (1934-2009) founded St. Anthony’s Dining Room, a free-meal program for seniors, the disabled and the homeless. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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1986 May 25 |
An estimated 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America," forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless. The campaign was organized by Martin & Glantz, a social issues and media strategies firm. Angenette Martin, a founding partner, died in 1997 at 50. Links: USA, Homeless ![]() |
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1987 |
SF activists formed the SF Coalition on Homelessness. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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1988 Jan 8 |
In San Francisco Art Agnos was inaugurated as the city’s 39th mayor. He promised not to rest as long as a single homeless person has to make a bed on the streets of the city. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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1989 Dec |
In San Francisco the Coalition on Homelessness produced its first newsletter. In 1990 a special edition was created for a Phil Collins concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater, but concertgoers were not much interested. Copies were returned to SF where homeless men began selling them on the street giving birth to the modern Street Sheet. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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1989 |
NYC’s pioneering Street News began publishing on behalf of homeless people. It closed in 2007. Links: USA, NYC, Homeless, Journalism ![]() |
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1989 |
In South Korea Park In-keun (d.2016), the owner of a state-funded facility for the homeless and disabled, was acquitted of charges linked to illegal confinement of inmates. Hundreds of deaths, rapes and beatings at the Brothers Home, dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, were documented in a 2016 report. In 2020 South Korea's Supreme Court said it will reopen the case. Links: South Korea, Homeless ![]() |
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1992 |
Prof. Sam Tsemberis of New York Univ. started Pathways to Housing, a program that provided the homeless furnished flats in poor districts. Additional programs on living skills were provided but not required. Links: USA, NYC, Homeless ![]() |
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1993 |
Ted Hayes founded Dome Village in Los Angeles as a cooperative for 30 homeless people. In 2006 the project was dismantled and the domes were auctioned off online. Links: USA, California, Homeless ![]() |
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1994 Jan 2 |
In San Francisco Father Alfred Boeddeker (90), the founder of the city's St. Anthony Dining Room, died. The Tenderloin dining hall for the poor was founded in 1950. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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1996 Jun 6 |
The UN appealed for contributions to N. Korea because of torrential rains that that have wiped out crops and left half-a-million people homeless. Links: North Korea, UN, Homeless ![]() |
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1996 Jul 19 |
In China the Yangtze River threatened to burst its banks. workers used 500 tons of rice in sacks to fill gaps in the banks. Millions have been left homeless and 716 were reported dead. Links: China, Disaster, Homeless ![]() |
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1997 May 10 |
A 7.1 earthquake hit in northeastern Iraq centered on the town of Qaen. More than 2,400 people were reported killed. The death toll was reduced to 1,560 with 60,000 left homeless. Links: Iraq, Earthquake, Disaster, Homeless ![]() |
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1997 Aug 21 |
In North Korea a tidal wave from a passing typhoon struck and destroyed some 700,000 tons of corn and left 28,000 people homeless. Links: North Korea, Homeless, WeatherAsia ![]() |
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1997 Sep 27 |
In North Korea Kim Jong Il ordered the establishment of the "9-27" camps for orphaned and homeless children to "normalize" the country. Links: North Korea, Homeless ![]() |
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1997 Dec 8 |
The US HUD established a new program with a hotline to help the nations homeless estimated at 600,000 to 1 million people: 800-HUD-1010. Links: USA, Homeless ![]() |
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1998 Feb 4 |
In Afghanistan a 5.9 earthquake hit the province of Takhar in the northeast at the junction of the Hindu Kush and Pamir mountain ranges where hills collapsed into each other making a huge crater. The number dead was later reported to be 2,300 with 8,000 left homeless. Links: Earthquake, Disaster, Homeless, Afghan ![]() |
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1998 Nov 5 |
In Chico, Ca., 2 football players, Dereck Jonathan Phillips (19) and Trevor McDonald Bird (19) of Butte Comm. College, beat and killed Lloyd Brown (47), a local homeless man. Links: California, Murder, Homeless ![]() |
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1999 Aug 4 |
It was reported that flooding of the Yangtze River had left 1.8 million people homeless. Summer flooding left some 725 people dead. Links: China, Homeless ![]() |
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1999 Oct 7 |
In Nigeria it was reported that floodgates were opened on the Niger River at 2 dams, Jebba and Shiriro, to prevent Shiriro Lake from overflowing its banks. 400 villages were submerged leaving 300,000 people homeless and some 500 people were estimated to have been drowned. Links: Nigeria, Homeless, WeatherAfrica ![]() |
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1999 Nov 2 |
In Romania dozens of orphaned and homeless teenagers protested and urged the government to provide jobs and housing. Links: Romania, Homeless ![]() |
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2000 Mar 10 |
In Zambia over 12,000 people lost their homes when the spillways of Kariba Dam in southern Siavonga were opened to relieve pressure. Links: Zambia, Homeless ![]() |
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2000 Aug 19 |
It was reported that 9 people had died in Ethiopia’s Afar region after the Awash River burst its banks and inundated the Danakil Lowlands. 30,000 people were left homeless. Links: Ethiopia, Tragedy, Homeless ![]() |
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2000 Nov 16 |
In Papua New Guinea a tidal wave followed a magnitude 8.0 earthquake and left at least one person dead and at some 5,000 people homeless. Links: Earthquake, Homeless, Papua New Guinea ![]() |
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2001 Jul 10 |
The South Africa government ordered the demolition of shacks on the squatter occupied land in Bredell. 1-2 thousand shacks were expected to be destroyed. Links: South Africa, Homeless ![]() |
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2001 Oct 26 |
In Fort Worth, Texas, Chante Jawan Mallard (25), a nurse's aide, ran into Gregory Biggs (37), a homeless man, after a night of partying. Biggs was left to die in the windshield. In 2003 Mallard was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison. Links: Murder, Homeless, Texas ![]() |
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2002 Nov 30 |
It was reported that NYC estimated 37,000 homeless. Links: NYC, Homeless ![]() |
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2003 Jun 18 |
Japan, which had begun counting the homeless for the first time, estimated the homeless population at 25,000 compared to 600,000 in the US. Links: Japan, Homeless ![]() |
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2003 Jun 26 |
A jury in Fort Worth, Texas, convicted former nurse's aide Chante Mallard of murder for hitting a homeless man with her car, driving home with his mangled body jammed in the windshield and leaving him to die in her garage. Mallard was later sentenced to 50 years in prison. Links: USA, Murder, Homeless, Texas ![]() |
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2004 Jan 12 |
In the Philippines a huge fire in a Manila shantytown hurt at least 23 people, destroyed thousands of homes and left about 25,000 residents homeless. Links: Philippines, Homeless ![]() |
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2004 Jan 21 |
Israeli forces demolished houses in Gaza's Rafah refugee camp for the second straight day in an anti-militant clampdown that has left 400 people homeless. A Palestinian woman was killed. Links: Israel, Palestine, Homeless ![]() |
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2004 Feb 19 |
In Kenya a fire raced through a Nairobi slum, destroying hundreds of ramshackle tin and timber houses and leaving 4,500 families homeless. Links: Kenya, Homeless, Fire ![]() |
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2004 May 1 |
A California state appeals court restored Mayor Newsom's Care Not Cash program for homeless people in SF. Some 2,497 homeless people were receiving monthly welfare checks for as much as $410. The checks were cut to $59 with housing or emergency shelter provided. By Dec 2005 the number of homeless receiving checks dropped to 391. Links: USA, California, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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2005 Jan 25 |
SF and dozens of other US cities undertook a tally of their homeless competing for nearly $1.5 billion in federal funds to care for the homeless. Links: USA, Homeless ![]() |
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2005 Apr 6 |
In India police beat up hundreds of people protesting against the razing of their homes by the government in the country's financial hub, Bombay. Authorities flattened an estimated 90,000 shanties in the city early in January. The slum clearance drive has left more than 300,000 people homeless. Links: India, Homeless ![]() |
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2005 May 9 |
In Hingham, Mass., the bodies of two homeless men were found. They had likely been killed the previous April. In 2007 Eric Snow (25) and James Winquist (23) were accused of beating the 2 men to death with baseball bats. Links: USA, Massachusetts, Murder, Homeless ![]() |
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2005 Jun 1 |
Zimbabwe’s state Herald newspaper reported that police have arrested more than 22,000 people as a fierce blitz on illegal stores and shantytowns gathered pace, sending homeless people fleeing for the countryside. Links: Zimbabwe, Homeless ![]() |
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2005 Oct 9 |
A UN official said more than 2.5 million people have been left homeless by the devastating 7.6-magnitude earthquake that shook India and Pakistan. Links: India, Pakistan, Earthquake, Homeless ![]() |
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2005 Dec 8 |
Project Homeless Connect, a one-day homeless aid fair that began in SF a year ago, went national with attention given to some 6,000 homeless in 21 US cities. Links: USA, Homeless ![]() |
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2005 |
A 2007 report said there were 744,000 homeless people in the United States this year. Links: USA, Homeless ![]() |
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2006 Jan 11 |
Sarasota, Florida, was named the 2005 meanest city in America by the national Coalition for the Homeless after the city council banned sleeping outside overnight without permission on public or private property. Links: USA, Florida, Homeless ![]() |
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2006 Jan 12 |
In Fort Lauderdale 4 youths went cruising to beat up some bums. Norris Gaynor (45), a homeless man, was beaten to death with baseball bats in one of 3 attacks. A surveillance camera captured the beating of Jacques Pierre in one of the non-lethal attacks. [see Jan 15] Links: USA, Murder, Florida, Homeless, Teens Amuck ![]() |
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2006 Apr 6 |
Maine’s Gov. John Baldacci signed legislation to allow stiffer penalties for those convicted of attacks on homeless people. Links: USA, Maine, Homeless ![]() |
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2006 Sep 30 |
SF city crews began a cleanup and sweep of Golden Gate park to oust an estimated 100-200 people living there. Crews planned to continue the task for the next 90 days. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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2006 Oct 5 |
In Suriname a homeless man was slain by an ax-wielding assailant in Paramaribo. It was the 4th killing this year of homeless men while they slept on the streets of Suriname's capital. Police wondered if a serial killer is on the loose. Links: Suriname, Murder, Homeless ![]() |
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2006 Dec 18 |
In South Bend, Indiana, Daniel Sharp (56) began killing homeless men suspected in stealing scrap metal. In February 2006 Sharp admitted that he and Randy Lee Reeder (50) killed 4 men between Dec 18 and Dec 21 for stealing metal that he and Reeder had collected to sell for salvage. In 2007 Sharp pleaded guilty to the killings. Links: USA, Murder, Homeless, Indiana ![]() |
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2007 Jan 22 |
Abbe Pierre (b.1912), a French priest praised as a living legend for devoting his life to helping the homeless, using prayer and provocation to tackle misery, died in Paris. He founded the international Emmaus Community for the poor. Abbe Pierre, born as Henry Groues, served as a spokesman for France's conscience since the 1950s when he persuaded parliament to pass a law, still on the books, forbidding landlords to expel tenants during winter months. Links: France, Homeless ![]() |
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2007 Feb 3 |
Indonesia’s Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar said Indonesia will pursue its plans to develop nuclear power as part of efforts to find alternative energy sources to address its growing needs. Officials said flooding has killed at least 44 people and left more than 340,000 others homeless in Jakarta, as neck-high waters submerged large sections of the city. The flooding in Jakarta eventually left 52 people dead. Links: Indonesia, Tragedy, Homeless, Nuclear, Flood ![]() |
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2007 Feb 21 |
Mayor Newsom and Philip Mangano, the government’s head of homelessness, announced that SF had received $19.7 million in federal funds to help fight homelessness. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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2007 Feb 28 |
The US government said the nation has 754,000 homeless people, filling emergency shelters through the year and spilling into special seasonal shelters in the coldest months. Links: USA, Homeless ![]() |
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2007 Mar 5 |
In Copenhagen, Denmark, demolition crews started tearing down a graffiti-sprayed brick building, prompting tears and cries of protest from youths whose eviction from the makeshift cultural center led to three nights of rioting. The Youth House served since 1982 as a popular cultural center for anarchists, punk rockers and left-wing groups. The squatters considered it free public housing, but courts ordered them out after the city sold the building to a Christian congregation. Ruth Evensen, leader of the small congregation that bought the Youth House in 2001, said the four-story structure had to be torn down because it was "a total wreck" and posed a fire hazard. Links: Denmark, Homeless, Mad Crowd ![]() |
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2007 Mar 19 |
In SF the Haight Asbury Free Clinic opened a new drop-in center for the homeless. Services at the 13th and Mission location included phones, showers, drug detox and case management. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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2007 Mar 22 |
In Hawaii Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a mansion, courtesy of billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto, a Japanese real estate mogul, who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families. Asked whether he was concerned about losing money on the effort, he laughed and said: "This is pocket money for me." Links: Japan, Homeless, Hawaii, Real Estate ![]() |
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2007 Jun 12 |
In California the Berkeley City Council passed a new Public Commons Initiative to deal with myriad issues facing those living on the streets. Links: USA, Homeless, SF Bay Area, Sociology ![]() |
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2007 Aug 1 |
SF police and homeless outreach workers rousted people sleeping in Golden Gate Park and other parks and encampments. Links: USA, SF, Homeless ![]() |
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