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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: President Young
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day - December 21, 2012
FOR the purpose of declaring December 21, 2012 as National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day in Baltimore City to bring attention to the struggle of people experiencing homelessness, to mourn the passing of our neighbors who, in life, lacked stable housing, and to rededicate ourselves to ending the conditions that create and maintain homelessness.
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Each year since 1990, communities across the country have come together on or near the first day of winter and the longest night of the year ‘to bring attention to the tragedy of homelessness and to remember our homeless friends who have paid the ultimate price for our nation’s failure to end homelessness.’ Baltimore City joins the National Coalition for the Homeless, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, the National Consumer Advisory Board, local homeless service providers, and people throughout the country in recognition of Homelessness Persons’ Memorial Day. The statistics speak to the large and growing problem both nationally and in Baltimore City:
· Nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s last, official “homeless count”, nearly 700,000 people find themselves in shelters, on the streets, or in other places unfit for human habitation on any gi...
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