November 3, 2012
Cory SchoutenIndianapolis last year sold 154 properties from its land bank for $1,000 each to a novice not-for-profit, which immediately
flipped them for a total $500,000 profit. More than a dozen have changed hands multiple times since then, making investors
more than $1 million.
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June 30, 2012
HVAF of Indiana is dedicated to eliminating homelessness for veterans and their families through prevention, education, supportive
services and advocacy.
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April 21, 2012
Horizon House provides direct support to persons who are homeless.
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November 19, 2011
IBJ Staff“Blueprint 2” calls on well-meaning church and charity groups to stop delivering food directly to homeless camps.
Professional outreach teams report that this enables people who may have addictions or mental health problems to continue
living outside.
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November 15, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinCHIP, the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention, said it wants Marion County taxpayers to create a permanent,
dedicated source of funding for housing and services.
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April 2, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinAn informal collaboration of social workers, police and prosecutors has had early success getting some of the most stubborn
homeless people in Indianapolis from downtown streets to shelter or recovery programs.
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March 7, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinA fast-growing national organization that gets homeless people involved in running is expanding to Indianapolis.
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January 12, 2011
Mason King
Rick Alvis looks back on 20 years at Wheeler Mission and ahead to a capital campaign and expansion of a downtown shelter.
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November 6, 2006
Jennifer WhitsonA fall merger of two Indianapolis homeless shelters set off a new round of speculation about whether Wheeler Mission Ministries
Inc. will continue to operate out of its 245 N. Delaware St. location--a stone's throw from multimillion-dollar redevelopment
under way on Massachusetts Avenue.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.