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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?
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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.
Feds Favor Private Over Public Housing Investment, Leaving Millions Out in Cold
“Affordable” housing is not within reach for the poorest.
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Los Angeles Is (Almost) Halfway to Ending Homelessness for Veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs settled a lawsuit brought by 10 homeless veterans in LA.
Five Reasons Why San Francisco Needs to Use Public Lands for Public Benefit, Not Luxury Housing
The most important public policy priority for San Francisco is to reserve its surplus land for affordable housing.
Five Reasons Why San Francisco Must Not Give Up Public Land for Market-Rate Development
A city plan to use public land for market-rate, rather than fully affordable housing, just doesn't make economic sense.