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Elderly woman leaves home to homeless in her will

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BAY AREA - Before Leila Boroughs died last September, she told her attorney she had no family to whom to leave her estate. She crafted her will to leave her 525 square foot condo to the city to turn into a homeless shelter...
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Report: 1 in 45 US children are homeless

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USA Today - The report paints a bleaker picture than one by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which nonetheless reported a 28 percent increase in homeless families, from 131,000 in 2007 to 168,000 in 2010...
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Georgia homeless shelter denies access to gays, lesbians

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"[Homosexuality] is not tolerated here at all. Let me tell you one reason why: because of the Bible, of course. And then we have little children," House of Mercy director said...
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Atlanta floods are deja vu for Hurricane Katrina victim

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VIDEO - Nakisha Miller knew what to do when the flood waters started rising Monday. She was in Mississippi when Hurricane Katrina hit...
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