{"id":270853,"date":"2016-02-04T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T08:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=270853"},"modified":"2016-02-04T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T08:49:37","slug":"hundreds-of-yerevan-residents-sleep-on-streets-or-citys-sole-homeless-shelter-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/04\/hundreds-of-yerevan-residents-sleep-on-streets-or-citys-sole-homeless-shelter-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Yerevan Residents Sleep on Streets or City&#8217;s Sole Homeless Shelter: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><em>Haykakan Zhamanak <\/em>daily newspaper reports that according to unofficial data, the number of homeless people in Yerevan is around 400, 300 of whom sleep on the streets of the city, and only 103 &ndash; in a homeless shelter.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking to the daily, Shavarsh Khachatryan, the director of Yerevan&#39;s sole homeless shelter, said that their establishment is able to take in only a hundred people at a time. Besides, he added, there is still no specific definition of who can be considered &ldquo;homeless&rdquo; in Armenia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Shelter is usually provided to those who apply to us themselves, as well as those&nbsp;whom we get notified about&nbsp;or who are brought here by ambulance or police,&rdquo; the director said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKhachatryan noted that their beneficiaries usually find themselves in a state of homelessness due to difficult socioeconomic conditions, or alcoholism: &ldquo;Under the current procedure, shelter is provided for a period of 3 months. During this time, the management tries to find them jobs, or return those banished to their families.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khachatryan noted that their beneficiaries usually find themselves in a state of homelessness due to difficult socioeconomic conditions, or alcoholism: \u201cUnder the current procedure, shelter is provided for a period&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32021,36575,56279,63833,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}