New Face of Las Vegas Homeless



News-3 TV

The struggling economy continues to hit Main Street hard. More and more families are losing their homes, forcing some to live on the streets. News 3's Dan Ball explains why the number of homeless families are dramatically increasing here in Las Vegas.

Catholic Charities says they've noticed that within the last several months, the face of the homeless has changed. It isn't just the single male sleeping on the streets anymore. Now, it's the family who was once living on easy street.

"Mary" is a mother of three. She and her husband both have jobs, a large mortgage, and a car payment. And, like many valley residents, they are just trying to make ends meet.

"Bills were due - we just needed a little help for today," says "Mary." "It's costing us more because we have a $1,295 mortgage, car note, kids expenses, diapers..."

Phillip Hollon with Catholic Charities says their role of helping only those people without shelter has drastically changed over the last year.

"Last year at this time, we were serving about 50 families on any given day. Now we're serving about 150 families on any given day," explains Hollon. "‘It's a very different clientele than we've seen in the past. Many years ago, people were on the street walking to us. Now they're driving to us."

Because of the housing crash, high gas prices, and inflation, more and more families are asking for help. And some are even ending up on the streets.

"The types of individuals we're seeing are struggling to make ends meet," says Hollon. "They're forced into making decisions - whether they can pay their rent, or their car payment, or putting food on the table."

Within the last few months, Catholic Charities has seen the number of hot meals they serve dramatically increase from around 600 to over 800 every day.

"We've been struggling ourselves to try and help the community," says Hollon. "With all the needs that are out there, it has tripled in the past year."

Linda Lera-Randle El runs "Straight from the Streets." She says the increase is so great, that the state needs to step in and help out because things are bound to only get worse.

"Poverty is usually last on the list," explains Lera-Randle El. "It's the hardest hit and it's going to cost the most. It's just like a natural disaster almost - only it's with us always."

If you'd like to help, there are many things you can do, such as donating money, food, or your time by volunteering.

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Rise up, and TAKE THE FOOD

Rise up, and TAKE THE FOOD FROM THE CASINOS. Just walk in and take it. Their avarice and barbarity are right there, they are rich, you need it, just take it.


How do you like the jews

How do you like the jews now? They're behind this and screwing America in to a Third World Country. BTW - My local Catholic Charities is riddled with jews and there's talk of lots of misappropriated money (typical). Still willing to bow to jews as your Masters?


Time for these folks to take

Time for these folks to take control of their lives and make some hard choices. Can't afford the big, fancy house and food? Sell the house and rent a small apartment. Can't afford the car payments and food? Sell the car and buy some food for your children or maybe do without a meal or two each day and lose some weight. Can't afford the electric bill? Turn off the air conditioner and sweat it out like the rest of us.


Hey Shill, Kindly DROP DEAD.

Hey Shill, Kindly DROP DEAD. Trade in your house and car and live in a box and we'll see how you like it.
If you don't, go back to Israel where you came from. Oh, and take your rap underclass with you,
we have no use for them.


Sorry pal, these folks are

Sorry pal, these folks are better off than I am, so you won't get any sympathy from me. I've never owned my own home - I've always rented because I figured I couldn't afford to get so much into debt, nor did I think I could afford the hidden costs of home maintenance/upkeep that few people consider in their home-buying equation. I've never owned a new car - the car I drive I bought used for cash 8 years ago and have paid the hidden costs of upkeep and maintenance. I don't have kids, I never thought I could afford to have kids and all their costs, at least not if I wanted to have a few nice things for myself. I bet if you go in these folks' homes you'll find nice, new big-screen HD TVs. I don't have one of those - I can't afford it and don't want to get into debt that much to get a TV when the old standard def TV I have does just fine.

Life is a series of choices. You have to pick those things that are most important to you and forego some of the other luxuries. Only the bankers and rich fat-cats can afford to have it all. Those who think they can have a big house, new cars, multiple kids, and all the electronic goodies on a lower-middle-class salary are the fools who sparked this financial crisis by defaulting on their home loans. Now they want us to give them money for food while they still cling to all their goodies? Sorry, but I'm no fool.


Thanks for the false flag

Thanks for the false flag terror on 9/11. Thanks for the ruinous, disgraceful bogus wars. Thanks for destroying our culture, our economy and our entire country.

Thanks, Jews. We owe you.

No, really - we owe you.


Time has finally come After

Time has finally come
After years of robbing the 3rd world countries, bad karma has come for you American. Dont blame the jews or your government. Americans played a role too. Forget about the cars and your comfortable homes. Go build a shack for shelter, walk , dont use a car. Diapers, I got a better solution, use a towel. It can be reused over and over again. For food , just live on grains. Then you people will know how you have treated the 3rd world countries.


Yes, it actually is the Jews

Yes, it actually is the Jews who are doing it. All the money that disappeared from the stock market got shipped to Israeli banks; the DVD mailer was of Jewish origin and the media, Hollywood and all the branches of the government are under their control. They carried off 9/11. They are the top people at Homeland Security and Lieberman is the Chairman. They are most of the officials in the Georgia government. They have been kicked out of just about every country over the course of history for the same behavior over and over again. They created the anti-Semitism tag to stiffle all criticism. The threaten, blackmail and murder at will. They instigated the Afghan and Iraq wars and want another in Iran. The committed mass murder in Lebanon in 2006 and are practicing genocide on The Palestinians every day. Somewhere about 90% of them are not even Semitic but a Mongol Turk blend of Ashkanazis who are killing the real Semites that they have driven off of their land. The started the Six DAys war and then bombed the U.S.S. Liberty because it has intelligence about this. They started all of the wars that they claim were started against them. They were the driving force behind the Bolshevik revolution and the Cheka-secret police in Russia who murdered tens of millions were 60% Jewish. They engineered the Ukranian and Armenian holocausts. Their control of the diamond industry is behind the conflict diamond massacres. They control the banks that make up the mis-labeled 'Federal' Reserve. I could go on and on and on and all of this is proven fact. Finally they imprison people who question the inflated numbers about their own divine holocaust which is no more than a blackmail industry. Forensic investigation proves there were no mass graves at Treblinka. There were no gas chambers. The numbers at Auschwitz were lowered (by them) from 4 million to just over one million and yet there are still six million victims and to make matter worse there are more holocaust survivors today than there were after the war. Sooner or later they are going to get it for real.


Very true.In fact tey are

Very true.In fact tey are much greater criminals than described in your comment
Congratulation.That vermin will be wiped out in coming Worldwide cleansing


Who forced Mary to produce

Who forced Mary to produce offspring and lease a house and two suv's? Grow up, take responsibility and stop whining. The writing's been on the wall for at least 40 years.
Your children will be slaves and there's nothing you can do about it.
God bless America.


Are these comments from

Are these comments from America's same massive Christian constituency so vigorously supporting and voting for the Bush-GOP NeoCons/TheoCons that are now here blaming the Jews for their own blind faith, ignorance and stupidity?


Wake up, America. If you

Wake up, America. If you don`t reclaim your country reeaaaal soon from those bloodsucking, born evil, inbred rodent jew terrorist scum that have hijacked it and are slowly but surely murdering your Christian land and heritage and parasiting away at what you have, you will suffer the same fate That the Russians did in 1917 and Germany did in the mid 1930`s and every other land and culture has endured that that disease of earth and humanity has infected and destroyed from the inside out. It`s happening all around you, 24/7/365. The jew virus already controls your government and military and courts and media etc. We need not mention how many of those in political power in this country hold dual American-israeli citizenship and passports. Will it take another revolution to save this country? Obviously.


The reality is even worse

The reality is even worse than you describe, but this is starting to take on the characteristics of a COINTELPRO operation to get everyone fighting with each other.


I can't believe the

I can't believe the responses to this article. What's up with all the hate. I last time I looked, we're all Americans and are in this together.


loooool blame the jews? who

loooool
blame the jews?
who was suporting those same jews as they went up in power?

are you just jeallous of us, jews, that we are more succesful /rich ?
is it jealousy?

and please, u do understand its greed from everyones side, jews only represent 2% of american population and only about 15 million jews in the world....

dont hate, blame ur own greedy corrupt and disfunctional american government


To talyan, Do you think that

To talyan,

Do you think that your neverending holyhoax B.S., and all the other scams and lies you hooknosed, parasiting rodents have put on humanity throughout the ages might have something to do with "wealth" and "succes"? Newsflash: your hoaxes and scams are slowly but surely coming apart and if the American people ever wake up this will be one more country you bloodsucking , cancerous vermin will be thrown out of.

Amen.


Did anyone catch Adam

Did anyone catch Adam Pearlman`s (Whoops, I`m sorry, I meant "Adam Ghadan's") latest video a few days ago? That guy is too funny!

It should come as no surprise that most of the $5-6 trillion in the bailout that Congress and The Senate passed last week (you can forget the $700 billion figure the "news" keeps throwing at you because that was a figure that was plucked out of thin air) will be transfered to Banks in Israel.

Makes you wonder, doesn`t it?

More of your stolen, embezzled, parasited Jewish "wealth", Talyan?


you just dont get it- there

you just dont get it- there is no money, nothing got stolen, there is no bailout. there is only your fat ass in front of computer screen. lazy jerks. you deserve everything that's coming- cowards, hypocrites, greedy selfish pretenders.

One poster got it right. TAKE THE FOOD.


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