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Jerry Giardina is already a familiar face to the homeless people in downtown Gainesville, where he s been working as an outreach worker for Grace Marketplace for only the last month. The unassuming, thin, bespectacled man on Thursday was toting a backpack with his trusty computer inside  his lifeline to help homeless people transform their lives. Several acknowledged him as he stood on a sidewalk by Haisley Lynch Park. When Giardina can gain a homeless person s trust, he pulls his laptop out and inputs data to find out what services, and particularly housing, are available to them. Giardina knows he’s not intimidating, which works to his advantage getting people to sit down and talk about their lives so he can try and get them into permanent housing.

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