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Homeless Advocates Fight for the Right to Rest in Denver
Activists are pushing for a “right to rest” law in Colorado that would prevent the criminalization of homelessness.
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“They’re Herding Us Like Cattle”: How San Francisco’s Homeless and the City Are Paying Dearly for Super Bowl 50
Santa Clara is hosting the big game. San Francisco is hosting the traffic jam.
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How the Homeless Population Is Changing: It’s Older and Sicker
As a society, we face the specter of older adults dying on the streets.
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Health Is Where the Home Is
It's not hard to understand the devastating health consequences of homelessness.
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Surveillance and Surveys in Kabul
US “intelligence” discloses little about poverty, chaos, hunger, child labor and homelessness, which afflict Afghanistan families.
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Bay Area Low-Income and Homeless Residents Push to Build Own Housing
POOR Magazine, a nonprofit organization wants to build four eco-friendly townhouses.
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Poverty Swept Under the Red Carpet in the Philippines
Manila's street dwellers are everywhere, because crushing poverty in this country of 100 million people remains rampant.
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Henry A. Giroux | Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism’s Politics of Disposability
Young people today are forced to inhabit a world where childhood is nonexistent, but a different future is possible.
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Thousands Still Homeless a Year After the Bay Area’s Biggest Encampment Was Shuttered
Nearly a year after San Jose shut down the Bay Area's biggest homeless encampment, hundreds still live along city creeks. What went wrong?
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Housing Vouchers Most Effective Tool to End Family Homelessness: Major Study
This is the first rigorous, large-scale evaluation of alternative strategies to reduce homelessness among families with children.