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• A safe, warm place to sleep, wash and get reorganized for men and women who have no place else that they can call home.

• Average stay is a week to 10 days
• Demand has increased 12-15% per year
• Most of the homeless people living in Connecticut suffer from income problems, not mental health or addiction issues, studies show (Hartford Courant, Oct. 5, 2002)
• Perception: illiterate, mostly male, unemployed, old. Reality: mostly high school graduates, 20% have jobs, middle-aged and getting younger, more and more women
• According to the Hartford Courant, shelters across Connecticut are turning away record numbers of people. MACC's Samaritan Shelter could sleep many more homeless women if we had the beds.