Selected Homelessness Issues Internet Sites

Compiled by James T. Bretzke, S.J., S.T.D.

Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco

Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen Documentary

This is a Soundprint radio documentary broadcast on National Public Radio. It presents an aural picture of a Baltimore neighborhood soup kitchen created through the stories of the lives of several regular customers. We are surrounded by the sounds of the streets that are their homes, and we share a sense of hope, despite the empty routine of merely getting through another day with a stop at the soup kitchen. This show was broadcast the week of January 25, 2004

http://soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/428/name/Our+Daily+Bread/

Homelessness in San Francisco

The following story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday August 29,2003. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/29/MN37695.DTL

SF Chronicle Part 1 Homelessness Series

This is the first part of a two-part series on homelessness in San Francisco and the inter-relation with city politics, especially on the mayoral level. It is interspersed with the personal stories of a couple of people who have struggled with homelessness in San Francisco themselves. The series is a good example of trying to probe the morally relevant features and assumptions which underlie a complex ethical issue.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/07/MN252063.DTL

SF Chronicle Part 2 Homelessness Series

This is the second part of the SF Chronicle's two-part series on homelessness, which appeared September 8, 2003.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/08/MN2853.DTL

UCLA Student Project on Homelessness

This is a link to a web-based student paper done at UCLA in 1999 on Homelessness. It is a fairly good example of trying to look at the morally relevant features which would enter into a discussion of this issue. The title of the project is Homelessness: an Outline of its Causes and Consequences: A Hypermedia Outline " and was done by Pablo La Roche as a Final project for Homelessness: Housing and Social Service Issues / Planning 270 for Instructors: Jacqueline Leavitt and Mary Brent Wehrli (Spring 1999).

http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~plaroche/UCLA%20Works/Spring99/homeless/Mainpage.html

USF Student Project on Homelessness (Fr. Bretzke’s 2003 Contemporary Moral Problems Class)

Homelessness Power Point presentation prepared by Andrew Bolles, Elizabeth Cooney, Julie Ehrlich, Loren Randolph, and Angela Smead.

http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/bretzkesj/Homelessness.htm