Google’s Grand Central providing phone numbers and voice mail service to the homeless:

“When you lose your home, you lose more than your house,” said Google’s spokesman. “You lose a permanent way of staying in touch with family members, employers, and social service providers. Being able to give a phone number to people and access voicemail can be a very powerful thing in sustaining quality of life.” [via CNET, “Google expands free phone number and voicemail project”]

Grand Central has always looked like a good service. Now it looks even better.