<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/613f40fd-db03-4e40-9042-48d52890df2a/2A58A281-FF53-41AE-86B0-878E908E2C0B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/07/whats-meanest-city.html" href="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/07/whats-meanest-city.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dollarsandsense.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/07/whats-meanest-city.html"><H1>What's the Meanest City?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/07/whats-meanest-city.html"><DIV> Los Angeles is #1, according to The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) and the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) -- #1 in criminalizing the homeless. The two organizations released a <A href="http://www.nlchp.org/news.cfm?id=1">report</A> on Monday analyzing how cities target homeless people, such as laws against sleeping, eating, or sitting in public spaces.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/07/whats-meanest-city.html"><DIV>The report, titled "Homes Not Handcuffs," includes information about 273 U.S. cities. It also ranks the top 10 U.S. cities with the worst practices of criminalizing homelessness. Top 10 lists are always easier for the mainstream media to comprehend, so that's been the story for the few media outlets that have covered the report (Reuters reporter Steve Gorman's <A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56E0MC20090715">article</A> is the best we've seen so far; it's also republished on <A href="http://commondreams.org/">Common Dreams</A>).</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2A58A281-FF53-41AE-86B0-878E908E2C0B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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