homeless around the city

I've been doing lots of research and looking into things around the city of columbia. Found out some interesting facts:

• families make up 1/3 of people staying in Missouri homeless shelters
• homeless children are nine times more likely to repeat a grade and four times more likely to drop out of school
• children make up the largest percentage of people living in poverty
• there are only 3 homeless shelters in Columbia
• Columbia police kick the homeless out of downtown from early morning till 7 or 8 at night

Check out these websites:

http://homeless.com/do/Home
http://www.blog.grassroots.org/



--Lace