With a global pandemic and an economic recession, homeless sweeps meet resistance While millions of Americans were told to stay at home at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, unhoused people were the most acutely ...
At a time when the safest place for everyone to be is at home, those with no home are at high risk of contracting COVID-19, and more likely to experience major health complications and die. ...
For many thousands of students across New York City and the United States, school is the only place they receive regular meals, shelter, medical care, and other vital services. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) As ...
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 ...
Apple just committed $2.5 billion to help alleviate the California housing crisis. Facebook and Google already committed $1 billion each. Is it enough? And why are they facing harsh criticism? On Monday, news broke about ...
“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 ...
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; ...
Student homelessness is at an all-time high in New York City. Statistics from the Advocates for Children of New York show that 114,659 students in New York public schools are homeless. The study further says ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Idaho ruled that it is unconstitutional and cruel to punish homeless people for sleeping in the streets when no shelter is available. Three judges of the ...
Activists of the Occupy movement push Philadelphia mayor to end Preliminary Arrest Reporting Service Agreement with ICE; protesters seek to tackle the stop-and-frisk program next. The occupation of City Hall since protesters moved the encampment ...
As statistics for the first quarter of 2018 come in, some shocking findings around homelessness and in particular child homelessness in the U.K. have come to light. Street sleeping has been on the increase for ...
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 ...
On Tuesday, I wrote about the spike in homelessness on the West Coast and the insurmountable problem politicians face in tackling this troubling issue. There is no clear-cut solution, but something needs to be done. ...
Homelessness in America is out of control, especially on the West Coast. The total homeless population in the U.S. rose this past year for the first time since 2010, driven primarily by a steep increase ...
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 ...
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