After four decades of research and over a decade of federal support, Housing First’s Sam Tsemberis is ‘back to being an outlaw’ in the US
Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle offers a portrait of a woman whose homelessness is a form of suffering but also an occasion of enlightenment.
“Today, there isn’t a single state, metropolitan area, or county in the United States where a full-time worker earning the local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment.”
A coalition of attorneys general and governors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's new conditions and cuts to a Department of Housing and Urban Development permanent housing program.
With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest. Today in Washington, DC the order is out - lock up the unhoused.
From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the US is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion
The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an investment commodity.
No one wakes up one morning and chooses to be homeless. No one says to themselves, “How fun would it be for my kids and my family to live in a tent without food, water, school, or transportation?”
To end homelessness we must reclaim our housing infrastructure from the investor class, produce homes as if they were essential goods rather than investment vehicles.
The Biggest Win for Workers in Decades. Criminalizing Homelessness Won't Make It Go Away. If I Were a Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof Parody). Jordan Klepper Crashes Trump's Criminal Trial. A Bombshell Supreme Court Case on Jan. 6.
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