Recent challenges to anti-camping or homeless bans in court will likely affect how homelessness is handled across the country. This month two high profile court cases have limited cities’ ability to try and ban sleeping ...
“How is it acceptable that GDPs are increasing all the time … and homelessness is rising all the time?” Residents of a waterfront San Francisco neighborhood filed a lawsuit against the city and state on ...
“This is a heartless attack on some of the most vulnerable people in our society,” said Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, on HUD’s new rule targeting homeless transgender ...
Candice Payne became a modern day hero when she bought 20 hotel rooms for Chicago’s homeless during last week’s polar vortex. One woman made national news last week when she bought 20 hotel rooms, sheltering ...
Madrid recently began requiring the homeless to report their income from activities such as begging, performing in the street or selling trinkets and scrap metal for taxing purposes. Social workers and advocates for the homeless ...
Rich Garon is an author, homeless advocate, and former Chief-of-Staff for the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives. While estimates vary, experts place the number of homeless in the United States somewhere near 550,000; ...
A homeless man identified as Kevin Straw was beaten aggressively during an arrest by Oregon law enforcement on Monday, prompting A.C.L.U. Oregon to condemn officer behavior and call for an incident investigation. Four Marion County ...
The Royal Wedding came and went on May 19th with lots of glamour and over 10 million people tuning in to watch on local television, but underneath the glamour simmered the issue of homelessness in ...
The amount of people “sleeping rough” or homeless on U.K. streets has increased by 169% since 2010. As homelessness in the UK has grown so too has the number of people dying on the streets ...
Patient dumping often happens to patients who are uninsured or who have financial troubles. In Maryland a bystander recorded a patient being “dumped” in 30 degree weather. A Maryland hospital is being accused of “patient ...