Speaking at the event was Fred Karnas, Jr., Executive Director of NCH, Linda Kaufman, homeless advocate, and Cheryl Barnes, freelance activist. All echoed the distress that many of us feel as our fellow citizens die on the streets, but emphasized a renewed commitment to end homelessness in the United States, so that we will not have keep having memorial services. Unfortunately, we will be having another service next year as three homeless people have already been found dead in Washington, DC since the service. It appears that the immediate cause of death was a combination of hypothermia and intoxication. We still have a long way to go in ending homelessness, especially in our Nation's Capital.
Homelessness truly is a matter of life and death.
The following are the names of people who have died homeless in the Washington, DC metro area in 2000.