<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - </title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/specials/homelessness?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[At Shelter In D.C., Mix Of Holiday Cheer, Hope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37607-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37607-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The children inside a multipurpose room yesterday happily scooped up corn and macaroni and cheese from their paper plates. After lunch, the deejay switched from soul-infused Christmas carols to pop singer Beyonce. The youngsters danced, shaking themselves up and down the same way some people shake salt on a baked potato.]]></description><author> Theola S. Labbe</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activists Arrested at Shuttered Shelter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15440-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15440-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A standoff between police and protesters who staged a sit-in at a former homeless shelter in SW Washington ended Friday with the arrests of 7 people.]]></description><author> Manny Fernandez</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homelessness Activists Serve Up a Protest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13082-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13082-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A dozen D.C. area activists spent Thanksgiving serving breakfast to homeless people, then marching to a recently closed shelter, forcing their way inside, and vowing to have it operating again by tonight.]]></description><author> Nicole Fuller</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Groups Take On Chronic Homelessness]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8651-2004Nov23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8651-2004Nov23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Several nonprofit groups and for-profit companies announced yesterday that they have joined forces to try to end the nation's most intractable homelessness cases -- the hard-core street people who sleep on grates, live under bridges and often struggle with mental illness and drug addiction.]]></description><author> Jacqueline L. Salmon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Streets to Help Others Off Them]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6901-2003Nov22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6901-2003Nov22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homelessness</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands turned out for Washington's annual Help the Homeless Walkathon, raising $6.5 million for area organizations that work to prevent and end homelessness.]]></description><author> Lena H. Sun</author></item></channel></rss>