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On Thursday, September 17, 2009, Senior Support Services Executive Director Ted Pascoe took the extraordinary step of declaring himself homeless. He felt he needed to take drastic action after DRCOG (the Denver Regional Council of Governments) eliminated its funding of Senior Support Services. Due to this loss of funding, Senior Support faces a dire financial situation. Senior Support, Ted fears, will have to lay off members of its already overworked staff and cut services to a growing homeless population.

Ted is writing a blog about his experiences as a homeless person in Denver. His first entry begins:

8/25/09: I don’t want my mother to know that even I think this one’s crazy. Where am I going to sleep, and will I feel safe and secure enough to get any sleep? Where will I bathe? Where will I access clean water, and where will I crap? These are my major worries. If I could scout out an acceptable, secure place where I might feel relatively free from getting harassed by the police or by late night partiers or by the homeless or by drug dealers or by thugs, then I might be less nervous...

To read more, go to Ted's Homeless Strike blog: http://tedshomelessstrike.blogspot.com

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