Cal Thomas on Bob Woodson: Look Who’s Winning the War on Poverty

Collette Caprara / May 12, 2011

Columnist Cal Thomas writes today about his site visits this week in the D.C. area with longtime advocate for grassroots community initiatives Bob Woodson:

I spent last Tuesday riding around Washington and Waldorf, Md., visiting housing projects Woodson’s organization supports and studying his success. I met former drug addicts, dealers, prostitutes and pimps—all of whom testify to having been through failed government programs—who now say they are clean, sober and off the streets.

Thomas also visited initiatives launched by Pastor Shirley Holloway, “a no-nonsense, black woman who heads Kingdom Village in Waldorf. It provides housing and, more importantly, a home environment for many who have not had a place to live—other than prison, in some cases—in years. She also runs House of Help/City of Hope in a formerly tough (until she took over) neighborhood in Southeast Washington.” (more…)