Project finds homes for homeless
For the chronically homeless, the life change is sudden and profound.
"Today, God has seen fit to bless you," James Hamilton's counselor told him last month on a day that Hamilton began in a fusty bunk bed in a Washington homeless shelter.
By nightfall, Hamilton's permanent home was a quiet one-bedroom apartment in an iffy neighborhood in Southeast Washington, for which the city pays a HUD-subsidized $900 a month plus utilities.
It's furnished with a new $1,200 furniture set, including a green plush sofa, bureau and end tables. It also comes with a new oak kitchen table and chairs, a bed, linens and a $300 Target gift certificate for incidentals.
Hamilton, a lean and chatty 51-year-old, hawks newspapers at a Washington subway station from 6 until 10 each morning. In the afternoons, he helps a clothing distributor make deliveries to fancy retailers.
In between, Hamilton spends a lot of time at Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown, his spiritual home. With its help, he's now enrolled in an educational lay-ministry course at Wesley College Seminary in Washington. He types his papers at a nearby public library.
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