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Matthew McHale Was More Than His Homelessness and Addiction
His Family Remembers a Brother, a Son, a Best Friend. They Ask the World to See Homeless People as Whole People “We would hook our pinkies together, and each kiss the back of our own hand to seal the promise,” … Continue reading →
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Missed School Days Can Signal a Housing Crisis
An Attendance Expert Says Schools Should Treat Absences as a Sign of Unmet Needs, Not Misbehavior Education is a door. When it opens, it creates opportunity and a path to upward mobility. When it closes, it cuts young people off … Continue reading →
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Is Denver Really Solving Homelessness?
National Outlets Are Praising a 64% Drop in Street Homelessness. Local Advocates Say the Full Picture Is More Complicated. A recent spate of articles about homelessness in Denver has raised questions about what it means to solve one of America’s … Continue reading →
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Empowering Families for a Brighter Future
Brighter Futures Shows What Prevention Looks Like, and Why It’s Needed Even in Affluent Suburbs One Minnesota church has launched a new program designed to prevent homelessness in the community before it starts. Through rental assistance, financial coaching, and ongoing ……
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In Foster Care, I Learned to Count Doors Before Staying
Foster Care Taught Me to Find the Exits First. It took Years, and the Streets, to Learn How to Stop Running. I was eight. Maybe nine. I never could pin the year down, and I quit trying a long time … Continue reading →
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What Happens to Homekey Residents When Funding Runs Dry?
San Jose Wants to Turn Its Arena Hotel Shelter into Mixed-Income Housing. Residents May Have Nowhere Else to Go. A redevelopment project in San Jose has raised questions about the future of pandemic-era transitional housing programs. The San Jose City … Continue reading →
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LAHSA Flagged $95,000 in Questionable Spending. Prosecutors Allege Millions Were Diverted.
An Outside Auditor Raised Fraud Concerns Before Federal Charges Exposed an Alleged Multimillion-Dollar Scheme Involving a Los Angeles Homelessness Contractor More than $7.5 million intended to help homeless Angelenos was allegedly diverted through sham companies over several…
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What Austin’s Former Mayor Learned From Ending a Camping Ban
Before Repealing Austin’s Camping Ban, the Mayor Asked Four West Coast Cities What They Regretted Most Before he moved to decriminalize homelessness, Austin Mayor Steve Adler toured Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco with one question for their leaders: … Continue…
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When Camping Bans Meet Coyote Dens
How Criminalizing Homelessness Is Putting People and Coyotes in the Same Shrinking Spaces As criminalization and camping bans get stricter across the nation, all while funding cuts see shelters closing their doors, more and more homeless people are being forced … Continue…
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Locked Out of Housing for Decades, He’s Helping Reshape the System
This article was originally published at News21; this story includes descriptions of sexual violence. A Conviction at 18 Limited Rico Morales’ Housing Options for Decades. Now, He’s Using His Experience to Rethink Minnesota Housing Policy. Rico Morales was 18 the … Continue…
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Olympia Will Let Homeless Residents Live in Vehicles, With Limits
New Pilot Offers Six-Month Permits to Park on Private Property, But Only One Vehicle Per Driveway and Two Per Church Lot C.C. Coates spent months asking the Olympia City Council to stop outlawing the way she lives. The former union … Continue reading →
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HUD Funding Delays Are Already Hurting the Nonprofit Sector
Court Fights, Late Applications, and Canceled Grants Are Leaving Housing Nonprofits Without Money They Were Counting On As the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) works to shift funding away from Housing First and supportive services, $4 billion in … Continue…
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Chicago Must Create 2,800 Accessible Affordable Homes Under Civil Rights Settlement
An Eight-Year Lawsuit by Access Living Ends With a 12-Year Deadline for the City The City of Chicago has agreed to identify, build, or rehabilitate 2,800 accessible affordable housing units over the next 12 years, settling a civil rights lawsuit … Continue reading →
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Homeless Californians Face 38% Higher ER Risk in Extreme Heat
New State Data Shows the Damage Goes Well Beyond Heat Stroke We’ve long known that extreme heat poses extreme health risks, particularly to homeless people who have limited access to any meaningful reprieve from the high temperatures. Now, we have … Continue reading →
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How One LA Charter School Keeps Homeless Students in Class
Scholarship Prep South Bay Reduced Chronic Absenteeism Last Year. Meals, Transit Passes and Laundry Helped. A charter school in the Los Angeles metro area has found a way to buck national trends and reduce chronic absenteeism among the homeless students … Continue reading →
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After the Tornado, a Kentucky Town Saw Its Hidden Homelessness
Camp Graves Formed to House Tornado Survivors. Nearly 5 Years Later, It’s Still Filling Gaps Rural Homeless Services Leave Open The tornado that tore through Western Kentucky on the night of Dec. 10, 2021, stayed on the ground for more … Continue reading →
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More Seniors Are Homeless. Cities Are Trying New Fixes.
Experts at a Harvard Panel Say Prevention Has to Link Housing and Health Care America is facing a growing crisis of older adults falling into homelessness, and that has inspired cities to take new approaches to solutions. The number of … Continue reading →
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Not Old Enough, Not Disabled Enough, Not Addicted Enough
A Portland State Study Finds Homeless People Are Turned Away from Help for Failing to Fit the Right Category Nearly everyone living without housing in Multnomah County wants a permanent home. The hard part is finding the way in. That … Continue reading →
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LA Olympics Security Zones Could Displace Nearly 6,000 People
Researchers Say the True Number Is Likely Higher, and the City Still Has No Clear Plan for Where People Will Go In the summer of 2028, millions of people worldwide will have their attention trained on the host city of … Continue reading →
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Still Worth Saving: One Homeless Mother’s Story
A Mother Lost Everything on the Street, Until Someone Finally Knelt Down Beside Her I was living on the concrete. I had my son’s father, who would come and go, but I spent most of my time ALONE. I had … Continue reading →