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Uploaded by on Jan 5, 2012

In Washington DC, when the temperature falls below freezing, homeless people have a right - under law - to a shelter bed. It is one of the few cities in the country where that is law. On one such night, recently, VOA's Mana Rabiee met some of the city's homeless as they tried to get in from the cold.

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  • Wow this just made me cry. Im glad that there are other people with hearts in 2012. I am pg county raised (suburbs of dc) and have never heard of it in my 26 years of living. Beautiful

  • Remember Mich Snider in the 1960s and 1970s He fought for the homeless in the DC area he died in 1980s from problems with a hunger strike over 30 days without food

  • Good Job man our politician don't even looked at those people

    they see them as Zero

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