What is the Homelessness Marathon?

The Homelessness Marathon is an annual 14-hour radio broadcast featuring the voices and stories of homeless people from around the United States The Homelessness Marathon features live call-ins all night long via a national toll-free number. The Homelessness Marathon is available for free to all non-commercial radio stations.

Pass Christian, Mississippi, after Katrina hit

The 12th Annual Homelessness Marathon will originate from Pass Christian, Mississippi. The broadcast will start at 6 p.m., central time, on Monday, February 23rd and end at 8 a.m., central time, on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Pass Christian is next door to Waveland, MS, which the Army Corps of Engineers officially designates as the "Ground Zero," where Hurricane Katrina came ashore. We call it the "other" Ground Zero, because it's the one that didn't get the attention (or the multi-trillion dollar response) that was given to the Ground Zero in New York.

Pass Christian was less affected than Waveland, losing a mere 100% of its public buildings, 100% of its businesses and 80% of its homes. Though the Gulf Coast is probably only about 20% rebuilt and there is a drastic shortage of affordable housing, the state and Federal governments will soon remove the remaining temporary trailers and cottages. Thousands of desperately poor elderly and disabled people and single parent families with young children are about to be thrown on the streets with nowhere to go.

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