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I Page A5 I The bitter w NEW YORK ~ The bitter winter cold has helped to focus attention on the homeless, but homelessness is a year-round problem in urgent need of a solution. Homelessness confronts us with the basic question of whether the world's richest nation will continue to accept a situation in which homeless people and families must live in the streets. ? Too often, the problems of the homeless are explained away with glib statements that don't make sense. _ For example, some people seem to think that the homeless are so few in number that the problem is minor. But estimates of the homeless population run from more than half a million to 3 million. New York City, for example, provided shelter for 8,300 individuals and 4,000 families on a cinsl* nUk* ?u*0>v vuiu 111511 v iasi uiuiuii. Those numbers give the lie to another myth about the homeless Winston-Sal An independent, loc NIWSROOM: Robin Barks< editor; Karen Hannon, typi copy editor; L.A.A. William SPORTS: David Bulla, s'por PHOTOGRAPHY: James Pi Blue, Joe Daniels. ADVIRTISINQ: Julie Perry Art Blue. OWICI STAFF: Barbara Mi Verisia West. PRODUCTION: Vinson Dei manager; Tim Butner, Vivli Truhon. I CIRCULATION: Veronica C Frank McCants, Blandelia 'v ' ? * -n*>ob? ikmIi w?rtv^'<T| (@R/eCk I There's always i ? Wrap up your wardrobe with Dame 9.99 Reg. 20.00. Tie together all of yo favorite coordinates with several selections from our collection of C cabretta leather belts. Spicy sprir a W ana Dasic Tasnion lunes. ACCESSORIES WINSTON-SALEM: HANES MALL <0 \ I HE FORUh finds of home TO BE EQUAL By JOHN JACOB -- that they are all individuals. Just think of it - 4,000 families in one night in one city. Nationwide,! homeless families make up a good part of the homeless population - and that means little children growing up in the streets, learning that "home" is something other people have. A related myth is that the homeless are incompetent persons released from mental institutions without adequate support services. Some are, and our treatment of the mentally ill is scandalous. But the vast majority of the homeless are living in the streets because they are poor, jobless and unable to afford housing in a marketplace in which low-income ]cm Chronicle ? ally owned newspaper dale, community news st; Yvonne Bichsel Truhon, s. ts editor. arker, photo editor; Art , advertising manager; ills, Fernice Wardlaw, A/berry, production an King, Yvonne Bichsel auions, Harry McCants, McMoore, Angela Ross. o; '?*** y ' i&v.to ??rl1 ?>^r* ^ ? ? "?*??? r- ??r- ?r-'* ft^ ' , sj A . l? .> ?-./ i Ik >>' H * something new at E ) . yiP )ame lg colors / A /jf -rl> 'JB Haw ww ' columns and features. slessness housing stock is being destroyed. In some cities low-Income housing has been torn down for luxury apartments and hotels. Across the country, housing prices rose over the past decade, leading families to double up and others to find shelter wherever they could. At the same time, federal aid for low-inCtffhe housing is shrinkina. Between 1981 and 1985 th# Reagan administration cut lowincome housing assistance funding by 60 percent and virtually ended construction of new housing for poor families. When homelessness first emerged as a national phenomenon during the last recession, many Americans expressed shock. But now they're used to it. Raise the idea of adding shelters or low-income housing, and the response invariably is: UIINMNHINNNItniNHNaMMaMaiiaMMnMMaailllMN Letters Fror aims would not have been met. Your support is crucial and we realize how generous and what a good friend the Chronicle is to~ us. We remain grateful. I would like to take this opportunity to commend Ms. Robin Barksdale, Mr. Lut Williams, Mr. Art Blue and Mr. Allen Johnson for all of their time and * work toward this needed cause. The compliments just keep coming on the articles in the paper! Again, many thanks to you and your staff at the Chronicle. I look forward to working with ) ^ t' J fc/* a* *? Ik 'jAi ui g . vL.b lijot baa n am ^ .i . ? .. .? f I - ^ . (elk of Hanes Mall... .u/ // fytysvy ' .?&$!$W -' #'" v- A Br^^f" i'.'-f^^' ^r '; '^jji K mI ^BMBk % X' v l yJ^Ty ^B[ * H Mall: 768-9200 Shop Monday to Saturday 10 to 9&0; Sunday 1 to# * a > "Not in my neighborhood.*' d Community and church groups s< that fhelp the homeless are h swamped - unable to meet the s< demand for their services. In ef- p feet, they're forced to deal with n problems beyond the scope of a] voluntary groups because govern- n ment has abdicated its respon- si sibility. f< Political leaders claim they si t n Page A4 you again real soon. Best wisnes k for a prosperous New Year. t< f] Marilyn Baldwin ' Winston-Salem N v t! King deserves better ti To The Editor: ? li v I never thought I would see the fc day I would be compelled to write \ my comments on the editorial a page. 1 am one who usually does Y not get involved politically and a lj + L a j i t (/j k .A ti \ i. \ ? u'j J v!v i v H ^BX9i BNWjMH HR^^H?^g^2?K $:? : :? ' ^B^SSKKre^iBcA GO t/ TON At home, or at when you go Misting, yc So experience the smooth me An imported C jjtt,/ptoriplN6 TH QK( HOMEUSS Ml IF uooomm JL 1 f a. *? on't have the resources to do >mething about poverty and omelessness, but they have )mehow found the resources to rovide massive assistance to riddle-class housing: Middlend upper-income families enjoy lore than $30 billion in housing . 1 .* J! 1 1! a 1 t__ josiaies, inciuaing iax oreaKS 3r second homes. But housing jbsidies to the poor come to less eeps my thoughts pretty much 3 family and a very few close riends. But I was shocked at how Dr. Aartin Luther King's birthday as treated by some of us, from he president of our country to he friends I talk to daily. First of all, a lot of people have Dst, ox never had, sight of where ve - and I don't mean just we slacks as a people have come. Ve include poor whites, women ind men, old and young who lave better jobs, better housing tnd better pay because of him. J y \ a iJ 111 t't B* i J9 HMm H Jf muMk KB^i^ i}jRbw -ft yj^s^wnjB z**B jPdS^E mfc^Bjp&., IMffi H > /%&&' I JSTING IGHT your favorite bar, )u make any night special. Ilow lightness ot Canadian Mi< Canadian Whisky. [wEwWi ?ju ro^fpr^fS ^?__ \ ,? ?????? ?' than $6 billion a year. The national disgrace of homelessness should be treated as mc pnuniy 11 is, Beginning wun temporary housing for the dispossessed and a massive new program to vastly increase the . supply of low-income housing. John Jacob is president of the National Urban League. iiiimnittiiimiimiiimimmiHiMMMiMMiiiutMMMMtii Because Dr. King was a black man doesn't mean that only blacks have profited from this man's dreams. His contributions even in 1986 are a part of any race, creed or color. And they didn't come without a price. They were something Dr. King marched for, begged for and insisted on. Has America ? forgotten? My mind quickly flashes back to when I was a child. It's as fresh as if it happened yesterday. I can remember going lo shop in Please see page A10 ; f I ONAIXAN MIST. $#>w 1 Pj^SyS^ v H? ^)H p&SI . S CANADIAN if: MIST J ^^liTllrfifilifiihlUfo it.
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