Residents sought refuge with family or friends, or went to a government shelter, CNN's Morgan Neill said.
Teresa Tejeda, who is in her 70s, told the AP she joined several hundred other elderly people at a government shelter because she was too scared to stay in her old apartment building.
The Communities and Local Government Committee (at 4.10pm) ponders the state of the private rented housing sector, with academics, Shelter, the Local Government Association and the National Private Tenants Association.
Housing charity Shelter said the government faced a "housing crisis" unless immediate action was taken.
In its response to the Scottish government's consultation, Shelter Scotland argued that right-to-buy should be abolished.
In London's villages, willing society is seeking the protective shelter of little government.
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Under the shelter of strong government, humankind can enjoy "commodious living" - Hobbes' term for a civilised mode of life in which we can live and work together without fear.
On Sunday, PTI's Mr. Khan said that he held the leader of the MQM, Altaf Hussain, who lives in self-imposed exile in London, responsible for the killing of Ms. Hussain, as well as the British government, for providing him shelter.
Eventually, Bob and Katherine left their government jobs to work at the shelter full time.
Earlier in December, Shelter was critical after government figures showed the number of homeless families in England had topped 100, 000 for the first time.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, urged the government to use next month's Budget to unlock the finance to deliver more affordable family homes.
Before joining the firm in December 2008, Bassin tried big tax shelter cases for the government, including the first successful case against Son of Boss.
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For those people in Argentina that want to bypass currency controls and also shelter their money from government-induced inflation, this Buenos Aires exchange community claims to buy and sell bitcoin for Argentine pesos.
Dr MUSTAFA OSMAN ISMAIL (Sudanese Foreign Minister): Women and children they have been affected by the fighting, the fear of the fighting create for them a situation where they have to move and to leave their village because rebels are using the village and the civilians as shelter and attacking the government.
In Istanbul that morning, Wolfowitz had visited a homeless shelter run by the Turkish government with financial assistance from the World Bank.
The government thus found itself perpetually responding to the last tax shelter rather than preventing the next tax shelter.
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They have lived in a two-bedroom unit in a Brooklyn shelter since she lost an apartment that was government-subsidized up until last year.
The reaction of both the public and the government was to provide a camp offering them food and shelter and then to let them slip in unnoticed in their quest for a better life.
The government says survivors are in desperate need of fresh water, shelter and medicine.
Torrential rains and severe flooding on several major rivers, notably the Limpopo, in January and February, cost 113 lives and displaced about 140, 000 people who took shelter in temporary accommodation centres set up by the government.
Owing to the basic truth that we produce in order to consume, and that consumption of shelter is a given, the best path for the government to take in order to save housing would be to de-emphasize its ownership, or at the very least make it equal in the eyes of the law with regard to other investments.
The shelter provided a unique glimpse into the hotel's incarnation as a government-run wartime guesthouse -- a world away from the opulence of its French colonial heyday.
But Shelter says research by experts at Cambridge University found that the 90, 000 houses the government is aiming to build between 2008 to 2011 falls well short of what is required to confront the country's housing shortage.
In New Jersey and New York, government, civil society, and the private sector have partnered to restore power, provide fuel, and temporarily shelter the displaced.
Dug in 1940 as London was blitzed by German bombers, the tunnels were designed as a air-raid shelter for up to 8, 000 people, and as a possible last-ditch base for the government in the event of an invasion.
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