National Homeless: 'National Coalition For The Homeless'

Source:National Homeless- from a documentary about this organization.

"The National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1982, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness. We are committed to creating the systemic and attitudinal changes necessary to prevent and end homelessness. At the same time, we work to meet the immediate needs of people who are currently experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of doing so. We take as our first principle of practice that people who are currently experiencing homelessness or have formerly experienced homelessness must be actively involved in all of our work." 

From National Homeless

Now that we are just four days away from another Christmas and with an improving economy, Christmas will be a lot better for more families in America, but we'll still have people living on the streets, wondering where their next meal is coming from, addicted to alcohol, and other drugs, having mental issues, unemployed, etc. And all going through these things on the street, because they don't have a job and they can't afford a place to live. 

So if homeless people are lucky, they'll be able to stay in a homeless shelter for maybe one or two nights. And get enough food to eat while they are there, but then going through the same experiences all over again, that they were going through before they went to the shelter.