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Homelessness
San Jose Is Displacing Its Unhoused Residents to Prepare for Super Bowl Tourism
The city’s use of temporary shelters harms affordable housing efforts and merely delays displacement of unhoused people.
A Tech Bro Think Tank Is Trying to Roll Back Evidence-Based Homelessness Policy
Housing First policies are being replaced with punitive reforms that could push 170,000 people back into homelessness.
Trump Plan Could Leave Nearly 200,000 People at Risk of Becoming Unhoused
It guts long-term housing programs, helps dismantle encampments, and forces mental illness and addiction treatment.
Recalled Baby Formula Went to Groups Serving Unhoused and at-Risk Families
The program lists 23 organizations across the country as participants in the ByHeart formula donation program.
The US Is Criminalizing Homelessness and Expanding Incarceration. Who Profits?
From private prisons to health care scams, the attack on unhoused people is about exploitation, not safety.
New Film Exposes Deadly Houston Jail and “Unconstitutional” System of Cash Bail
At least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year at Texas’s notorious Harris County Jail.
Vulnerable Renters Are Fearful as Emergency Housing Vouchers Wind Down
The end of a pandemic-era federal housing subsidy leaves tens of thousands across the US unsure where they’ll live next.
Fox Host Apologizes for Saying Unhoused People Should Receive “Lethal Injection”
Despite his public call to “just kill” unhoused people, Brian Kilmeade continues to host “Fox & Friends.”
The World Has Failed to Stop Israel. Our Only Choices Now: Leave or Die.
I soon face the possibility of never being able to return to Gaza City.
Trump’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Up Unhoused and Disabled People.
New coalitions are forming to protect those targeted by Trump’s move to institutionalize unhoused people.