The decision, they said, deals narrowly with how the city must provide emergency shelter to the newly homeless.

As with Friday's fire, the newly homeless yesterday were sent to a local school.

Robinson said he was newly homeless, and had been at the shelter for two weeks.

Without more money for shelters, many of those newly homeless people will end up on the streets, she said.

Like most of the newly homeless, Clay has trouble sleeping.

The earthquake also shattered something far more fragile, the newly homeless said.

Among the newly homeless here is a mood of sullen resignation, if not anger.

Buses were set up to take these newly homeless to shelters.

Some newly homeless people have jobs but do not earn enough to allow use of a home.

If they come from their own apartment and are newly homeless, it's an adjustment.