Support Declaration of Disaster & National Homelessness Relief and Prevention Strategy Using Disaste
Flower Child (nternet@c2i2.com)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:48:49 -0700
In the U.S.A. we could petition, "That the State and Federal
Governments be requested to declare homelessness a national
disaster requiring emergency humanitarian relief and be urged to
immediately develop and implement a National Homelessness Relief
and Prevention Strategy using disaster relief funds, both to
provide the homeless with immediate health protection and housing
and to prevent further homelessness."
Forwarded message from Homeless Peoples Network:
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>-------- Original Message --------
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> TORONTO DISASTER RELIEF COMMITTEE
>
> Toronto City Council will consider the following motion on
Wednesday,
> Oct 28, 10:00 am at Metro Hall.
>
>"That the Provincial and Federal Governments be requested to
>declare homelessness a national disaster requiring emergency
>humanitarian relief and be urged to immediately develop and
>implement a National Homelessness Relief and Prevention
>Strategy using disaster relief funds, both to provide the
homeless
>with immediate health protection and housing and to prevent
further
>homelessness."
>
>This summer (1998), faced with the disastrous increase in
>homelessness in the city, <snip>