Helping Hand House | Ending Family Homelessness in Tacoma, Puyallup & Pierce County, WA » microsoft http://www.helpinghandhouse.org Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:34:43 +0000 en hourly 1 Tent city just 1 mile from Microsoft http://www.helpinghandhouse.org/2009/08/tent-city-just-1-mile-from-microsoft/ http://www.helpinghandhouse.org/2009/08/tent-city-just-1-mile-from-microsoft/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:00:08 +0000 jamiea http://www.helpinghandhouse.org/?p=708 Fascinating video of a tent city in Redmond, Wash., that filling up with the newly homeless who are forming a makeshift community. Anyone here may as well be one of the families that we serve here in Pierce County – but it is shockingly close to Microsoft (1 mile away). This contrast – and the paradigm shattering realization that homelessness is uncomfortably close to home – caught national attention and was featured in the New York Times in a short documentary piece. Well worth watching – and imagine your neighbors and family in this situation. We need services to help folks in this situation…

Click here to see the video.

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