Big City Texas Mayors Address Homelessness
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Big City Texas Mayors Address Homelessness
Mayors of Texas’ biggest cities want the state to provide $25 million a year to keep families from becoming homeless.
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DALLAS (February 7, 2009)—Mayors of Texas’ biggest cities want the state to provide $25 million a year to help keep families from becoming homeless and to better assist people who already have no homes.

The mayors of Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, El Paso and Arlington met Friday in Dallas.

A letter sent to Gov. Rick Perry asks for the funding.

The mayors say about 44,000 Texans are homeless and the vast majority of them live in urban areas.

Houston Mayor Bill White said homelessness is not just a humanitarian issue, but also a dollars and cents concern that also impacts emergency rooms and city jails.

The mayors want to create a partnership with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to provide services to those leaving prison so they don't wind up on the streets.

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Posted by: ray Location: killeen on Feb 8, 2009 at 08:21 AM

maybe perry can raise taxes even more to support it.
Posted by: ray Location: killeen on Feb 7, 2009 at 07:15 PM

and thats all they will do is talk about it and nothing will ever be done.
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