Most days, Ryan Rude starts his morning at the Coalition to End Homelessness resource center in Concord. He often has his 3-year-old daughter with him. She’ll sit on his lap, or at the chair next to him and wave good morning to people as they file in.
The young woman with the familiar last name was seated in the Friendly Kitchen, her eyes focused on her cellphone, hidden under shoulder-length blonde hair.She’s homeless, short on money, her life stuffed into a knapsack, just like so many others who.
The Concord Coalition to End Homelessness has won an award for creating four apartments for long-term homeless people on Green Street, not long after it turned a triplex on West Street into more such apartments.The coalition’s work on 10 Green St.,.
By the time Susan Bell accepted her parents’ offer to live with them, she had already experienced one of the hardest months of her life.Back in October, the 55-year-old had endured two stays in the local hospital, first for double pneumonia and later.