Housing assistance for those in need

What a beautiful idea!

HOMELESS PEOPLE GET PIZZA IN PHILLY

Customers at Philadelphia’s Rosa's Pizza, where a slice is just $1, can choose to buy a slice for a homeless person for just another buck. And 8,400 people have done just that in the past 9 months. They're then able to write a heartfelt message on a sticky note and add it to the wall, where those in need who've benefited from the pay it forward pizza have also written responses of gratitude. 

Source: Huffington Post, 1/15/22, Pizza Plus

CITIES CRIMINALIZE FEEDING HOMELESS PEOPLE

This story makes me so sad this Thanksgiving week...

Gloria

 

Since January 2013, 22 cities around the country, from Los Angeles to Atlanta to Philadelphia, have enacted legislation restricting individuals and groups from sharing food with the homeless in public places, according to a new report by the National Coalition for the Homeless. The report found that there has been a 48% increase in cities attempting to pass such laws since 2010. Since 2007, 71 cities, in 27 states or commonwealths, including Puerto Rico, have either attempted or successfully enacted such legislation. At the same time, three states, including Connecticut in 2013, have passed a “Homeless Bill of Rights.” which outlaws discrimination against homeless people and affirms their right to use public spaces, including eating and exchanging food in public.

Source: Stateline, 11/17/14, Feeding the Homeless; Poverty & Policy, 11/17/14, Hunger & Homelessness