While our politicians want to criminalize homelessness, homeless people can hardly be expected to use shelters that don't exist.

Over time, through evolution, animals use shelters for other purposes such as reproduction, food storage, etc.

Statewide figures on the homeless who used shelters in 1993-94 totaled 17,693 different people, not repeaters.

She has used city-financed homeless shelters and drug-treatment programs; one of her children spent time in city foster care.

Since 2007 the annual number of those using homeless shelters in cities has decreased from 1.22 million to 1.02 million.

Legislation passed in the early 1990's prohibited the city from using such shelters for families.

The original inhabitants of the area were the Jaara people who used the rock caves and shelters for protection from the weather.

He noted that city policy bans using barracks-style shelters for homeless families.

For years, many affluent citizens who had used shelters paid far lower taxes than others who earned the same income.

They are unwilling to use nearby shelters, but say they might be forced to move.