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Dazzle Bowsky, left, grandson Adonis Bowsky, 5 months, and his mother Jaquay Bowsky organize belongings in a Madison motel room last month during a homeless outreach effort called Operation Giving Hope. Dazzle Bowsky and her family have been homeless for about five years.
STEVE APPS, STATE JOURNAL
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During Operation Giving Hope, the effort to help the homeless by knocking on doors at a Far …
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The 60 apartments at Rethke Terrace, a housing project for homeless veterans and chronically homeless people, filled within weeks of its opening in May.
M.P. KING, STATE JOURNAL
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A pillow, clothing and other personal effects are left near railroad tracks along Monona Bay, one of numerous sites in Madison where homeless people occasionally sleep.
M.P. KING, STATE JOURNAL
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A homeless man known as “Maverick” sleeps on the sidewalk at the top of State Street. City and county officials are directing more focus and commitment to preventing homelessness and strengthening the safety net, though skeptics say decades of lax attention to the problem will make success difficult at the current pace.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Raven Clark, 21, right, shares an emotional embrace following a conversation with Savang Chhorm, a volunteer with the Friends of State Street outreach group, on Aug. 31, about two weeks after Clark, who is pregnant, became homeless.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Christie Colvett looks for shoes for her grandson BentLee Hunter, 21 months, during Operation Giving Hope, an effort to help the homeless at a Madison motel led by the Madison police and Project Respect. Colvett moved to Madison from Tennessee earlier this year.
STEVE APPS, STATE JOURNAL
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