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Frazier, coordinator of Shelters at
Sistercare Inc.
Tor most of the women, when they
leave with their children, it is a last
resort. [And] in most cases these women
don't have skills, and thevVp nnemnlnvpd
They must have first month's rent, a
deposit, money for utilities, and they've
almost never signed a contract for a place
to live," Frazier said.
Nationally, many shelters are forced
to turn away abused women and their
children at a rate of almost one out of
every five in some cities. Sistercare,
however, has experienced a 35 percent
decrease in tum-aways from 1995 to the
present, Sistercare Director of Community
Development Janice Cohen said. Reasons
why Sistercare has experienced a decrease
in the number of women who seeks its
assistance are hard to pinpoint.
"I think, right now, there's been
decrease in the number we turn away
partly due to the fact that we've added
another shelter," Cohen said. "We do
try to get the word out about Sistercare,
about domestic violence and about our
crisis line through community action
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Hall said.
According to Finance Code 306.15
of the constitution, student activity fees
may not be used to fund any religious
or political donation.
The finance committee interprets it
as saying although they can fund a
campus organization that happens to
be political or religious, they cannot fund
any of its activities that support or
condone a specific political or religious
agenda.
I he only thing we have is trust,
Hall said when asked about controlling
how organizations spend the allotted
money. "The report we receive at the
end of the fiscal year on what they have
spent their funds is all we have to go
on.
In order to receive funds from SG,
an organization must present, in great
detail, the projects for which they are
requesting funds, and the specific amount
of funds requested.
The finance committee fully expects
an organization's end-of-the-year report
to reflect how the money was spent..
"I don't think you'd fund an
organization's political event unless it
would benefit the entire student body,"
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According to Cohen, the addition of
the new shelter makes turn-aways less
frequent, but the question of why they
are turning away fewer women remains:
Is it because requests for assistance have
actually decreased, or is the organization
now able to fulfill the requests of nearly
everyone who asks for their help?
According to the NCH, between
1973 and 1993,2.2 million low-rent units
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disappeared irom ine marKei. in iyira,
the total of low-rent reached 6.5 million
while the number of renters increased
from 7.4 million to 11.2 million. That
gap between available housing and those
who need it is the largest ever recorded.
A 1995 study done by the United
States Conference of Mayors (USCM)
found that requests for housing assistance
increased in 19 of the 29 participating
cities. Though the majority of the cities
involved in the survey were very large
and metropolitan, including New York,
Los Angeles, Dallas, and Seattle, increases
in housing requests can be found in South
Carolina's cities as well.
"It is not our all time, but I will tell
SG advisor Woody Carothers said. "Do
you fund them or do you not fund them?
That's a legitimate question."
The senate voted to table the bill
upon receipt of further information
regarding the status of Amnesty
International at USC.
Also in question was the appropriation
of $500 to the Sorority and Fraternity
councils, which are made up of
representatives from campus fraternities
and sororities.
The councils propose to sponsor a
campus-wide race relations forum.
"Their individual groups [in the
Fraternity and Sorority councils] may
be discriminatory, but the organization
is putting on a campus event that will
benefit all the students," finance
committee member Patrick Daly said.
"Its a race relations forum, not Greek
relations," Hall said.
In other business, the senate approved
sophomore Emily Green, and seniors
Molly Simpson, Amanda Lyle and Alex
Vu to the Election Commission.
Junior John Matthews was approved
to represent the College of Applied
Professional Sciences in the senate, as
was freshman Heath Coleman of the
College of Business Administration.
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2,400 certificates of housing in our
program. We currently have 4,200
requests waiting for one of those
programs," Stoudenmire said.
Among the 29 cities, according to the
USCM study, there was an average of
a 17-month wait for assistance, an average
Section 8 wait of about 40 months, and
a 39-month wait for vouchers. The
waiting lists in Columbia reveal only
slightly better situations.
"We used to be able to tell people
there would be an approximate wait of
12 to 18 months for Section 8 housing.
We don't even give a figure anymore,"
Stoudenmire said, although it is under
the national average.
The nationwide housing crisis is
poised to put millions of Americans at
risk for homelessness. High rent burdens
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income is spent on housing ?
overcrowding and substandard housing
are problems that constitute "worst-case
needs" and put the nation's poorer
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percent increase over the 1989 figure.
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needs, as deemed by HUD, paid
over one-half of their income for housing.
According to Stoudenmire, nationwide
housing authorities are not receiving
the support they need from the federal
government. They are eliminating
programs and reducing benefits and
"that makes it difficult for us to help,"
she said.
The CHA is the third oldest in the
country, created in 1934. When they
celebrated 60 years of helping low-income
families and individuals m 1994, there
was also a woman who had been living
in public housing for 59 years. According
to Stoudenmire, her children lived in (
public housing, as did her children's
children.
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break that cycle of dependence on the
government," but legislative and policy
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