Author name: Michel Degive

New Research Shows Job Loss — Not ‘Personal Failure’ — Is Driving Thousands into Homelessness Homelessness is not caused by personal failure — it is what happens when work no longer protects people from poverty. That is the central finding of new research published in the Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, which shows how […]

Remnants of Redlining Remain Relevant Right Now More than 50 years after the practice was outlawed, the effects of redlining are still being felt in neighborhoods across the nation. According to a new analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, modern-day problems with public housing and vouchers are reinforcing the same old dividing

New HUD Rules Slash Support for Permanent Housing, Reward Ideology Over Evidence, and Threaten Decades of Bipartisan Progress President Donald Trump’s administration is moving forward with a plan to significantly overhaul homeless services funding in America, a move that advocates say will put hundreds of thousands of people at immediate risk of becoming homeless. On

Underfunding at HUD and Nonprofits Means More Discrimination Allegations Go Unremedied The number of fair housing complaints filed across the country continues to rise, a trend that coincides with the Trump administration’s reduction in funding for federal enforcement. According to the latest fair housing trends report from the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), there were

Advocacy Group Says Denver’s Pandemic-Era Rehousing Program Didn’t Reduce Homelessness as Much as the City Claims An advocacy group in Denver and the city’s mayor are in a spat over whether Denver’s pandemic-era rapid rehousing program was as successful as officials claim. The disagreement points to the issues wrought by relying on data from the

Longtime Little Italy Resident is Now Stable While Seeking a Permanent Home After being evicted from the apartment where he had lived for 20 years, a 91-year-old Toronto man named Isidoro Ventullo was facing homelessness until his community stepped up to support him. Now, city officials are exploring ways to make aging in place safer

Why New York’s Subway Outreach Teams Can’t Solve a Crisis Rooted in Housing Scarcity Last month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that 6,100 people living inside the city’s subway system were provided “tailored support” last year. During the same timeframe, outreach teams made more than 20,000 contacts with people sheltering in the subway

Local Programs Restore Connection, Resilience, and a Sense of Belonging, Proving That Housing Justice Begins With Community As one housing advocate recently explained, “Bottom-up activities at the block level may do more to assist with resilience and community sustainability than big government programs.” Mass evictions are sending renters out of their homes in droves in

Advocates Warn Remote Location Will Isolate People from Jobs, Transit, and Services, Undermining Their Path to Stable Housing Utah lawmakers are moving forward with a plan to create a large campus outside of Salt Lake City to house and provide services for people who are homeless, an idea that local advocates say is “doomed to