Little hope for homeless in ruins of Miami shanty
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The Umoja shantytown was intended to shock. Just a few miles (kilometers) from the luxury condos of Miami Beach, it stood as a protest at the lack of affordable city housing.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Relief supplies poured  rapidly into southwest Florida after Hurricane Charley's  devastating rampage but some of the thousands of newly homeless  seethed with frustration on Monday as they faced rebuilding  their lives.
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The sweat and donations from religious groups are bringing hope and new homes to many residents in this tiny community, still struggling two years after Hurricane Katrina left much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast in ruins.
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As people made homeless by Hurricane Charley began another week living in makeshift shelters, federal officials pledged Sunday that more substantial temporary housing was on the way but gave conflicting information about the scope of what would be available.
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Government response has been praised, but the poorest are still looking for work or new homes.
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By Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald  Dec. 14--A 109-acre wasteland of naked dirt and scrubland in the midst of one of Broward County's poorest ZIP codes makes for a better metaphor than a park.
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ONTARIO, California  - Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.
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The city wants slum dwellers in apartments, but demolitions have left thousands homeless.
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Hashim Khalil Osman peeks out from the remains of his hut, partly bulldozed and then patched up with plastic sacking, to see if help has arrived to alleviate the misery of life in the slum suburbs of Khartoum.
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MIAMI There&#39;s word of a tentative settlement in a case brought by Holocaust survivors against the US government for the plundering of a Nazi gold train in World War Two.
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More than a week after floods devastated this impoverished Haitian city, aid workers were struggling to bring food and clean water to thousands of residents, some still perched on roofs.
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CACTUS, Tex. -- The streets of this small, isolated city in the Texas Panhandle are virtually empty nowadays, and "For Rent" signs decorate dilapidated trailers and shabby 1940s-era military barracks that just weeks ago were full of tenants.
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At least 38 Cuban doctors who defected from a mission in Venezuela have been stranded for months in Colombia, where they have been refused refugee status as they await word on possible asylum in the United States, according to a relief organization.
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A thunderstorm drenched homeless people living on rooftops and sidewalks in Haiti Saturday, adding to the woes of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne, who are looting aid trucks and attacking food distribution centers in desperation
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With thousands of New Orleans musicians still scattered around the country in a veritable diaspora, the cultural heritage of the Big Easy is in peril
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By Laura Morales, The Miami Herald  Sep. 10--Miami's Historic and Environmental Preservation board has handed Grove residents opposed to a Home Depot in their neighborhood another small victory.
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The nation's foreclosure crisis has led to a painful irony for homeless people: On any given night they are outnumbered in some cities by vacant houses, and some street people are taking advantage of the opportunity by becoming squatters.