{"id":25471,"date":"2017-08-18T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=25471"},"modified":"2017-08-18T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T13:48:10","slug":"community-event-to-battle-homelessness-aug-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=25471","title":{"rendered":"Community event to battle homelessness, Aug. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13626500_1049843001765867_7472288515653284741_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4898\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13626500_1049843001765867_7472288515653284741_n.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Decade to Doorways, Chester County\u2019s initiative to end homelessness, is hosting a free community event on the front lawn of Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center, 226 N. High Street in West Chester, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.\u00a0 Held as part of Decade to Doorways Week of Advocacy and Awareness, the free event will include food, live music, the <em>Humanizing Homelessness <\/em>photography display and an opportunity for those attending to write a postcard message to legislators in support of affordable housing programs and services that address homelessness in the County.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Campbell, Decade to Doorways Administrator said:\u00a0 \u201cFunds that are provided by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) help to serve more than 6,000 households in Chester County.\u00a0 These funds assist the men, women and children sleeping in homeless shelters or who are teetering on the brink of homelessness.\u00a0 HUD funding also supports the rehabilitation of our neighborhoods, roads and homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there is a severe threat to cut $6.2 billion from the Housing and Urban Development budget in 2018, which would severely impact low-income households and those experiencing homelessness in Chester County,\u201d adds Campbell.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re asking everyone to voice their opinion against this potential budget cut by joining us at our kick-off event to write a post card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional opportunities to participate in Chester County\u2019s Advocacy and Awareness Week and voice opinions with legislators include \u201cCall-in Day\u201d on Wednesday, August 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, when residents can book a time to call their legislators, with scripts and information to guide the conversation; and \u201cEmail-in Day\u201d on Thursday,\u00a0 August 24<sup>th<\/sup> .<\/p>\n<p>For more information about all plans for Decade to Doorways week of Advocacy and Awareness go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.co\/DecadetoDoorways\">www.facebook.co\/DecadetoDoorways<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Decade to Doorways, Chester County\u2019s initiative to end homelessness, is hosting a free community event on the front lawn of Uptown! 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High Street in West Chester, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 22nd.\u00a0 Held as part of Decade to Doorways Week of Advocacy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[15,4209,9338],"class_list":["post-25471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-chester-county","tag-decade-to-doorways","tag-homelessness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}