Homelessness, National
SOURCE: NPR Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He’s one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular...
Homelessness, National
SOURCE: REUTERS.COM The justices left in place a 2018 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that fining or jailing homeless people for staying outside or in unauthorized places if a bed at an emergency shelter is not available is...
Homelessness, National
SOURCE: USA TODAY More cities are punishing homeless people for sleeping in public, a new report shows, amid an increase in Americans living on the streets. Arresting or ticketing people who have nowhere else to go doesn’t help them find permanent...
Homelessness, National
SOURCE: FORBES California is home to some of the world’s toughest environmental and public health laws, but skyrocketing homelessness has created an environmental and public health disaster. The 44,000 people living, eating, and defecating on the streets of L.A. have...
Homelessness, National
SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST President Trump seems close to declaring a war on homelessness or, depending on whom you ask, a war on the homeless. Top White House officials have spent the past two weeks in California studying possible changes. But what do we actually know...
Hunger, National
SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES HELSINKI, Finland — “Happy hour” at the S-market store in the working-class neighborhood of Vallila happens far from the liquor aisles and isn’t exactly convivial. Nobody is here for drinks or a good time. They’re looking for a steep...
