Truthout
Homelessness
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Poverty as Prison, Reprise
We are a nation on lock down in more ways than we always see.
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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.
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.
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?