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Article: Prevention is the way to fight homelessness.(Columns)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 25, 2005
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Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Susan Ban For The Register-Guard
At this time of year we turn our hearts toward home - with all the mixed blessings home may bring. Soldiers long to be home for the holidays; students alternately dread or eagerly anticipate a return home during the break; Bing Crosby croons, `Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays' on the radio.
Home - the word conjures visions of stockings hung with care above a glowing fireplace surrounded by happy, expectant children and their parents.
For many of us in social services, however, homelessness cuts through the season's sentimentality like a blade. Finding a "home for the ...