Homelessness

If the greatest achievement of human action is the permanent degradation of earth, are we really intelligent?

October 9, 2014 marked the end of an era for Boston's homeless, ill and marginalized residents when the sole bridge to Long Island was closed.

In the midst of an ongoing housing crisis, conditions in San Francisco's single-room occupancy buildings are slow to improve.

The rationale for Fort Lauderdale's anti-homeless ordinance has everything to do with land and money.

Salt Lake City's Housing First initiative has reduced chronic homelessness by 72 percent. Now other cities are giving it a try.

From what had been a research study paper, stagnant for years, with no chance of approval, came a new model for housing homeless people in San Francisco.

It is time to stop treating the homeless like criminals. Police have alternatives to incarceration that actually help people - and save money for taxpayers.

This sad childish bickering was revealed in the latest debate between the City and the opposition.

The city of Portland recently announced it is seeking to provide tiny houses to convince people currently residing in Portland's “tent cities” to relocate to the permanent structures.

Downtown Los Angeles is home of two extreme phenomena: hypergentrification and a homeless population rising more rapidly than any other city in the nation.