Author name: Michel Degive

From Baltimore to California, Communities Are Building Stability Despite Funding Threats Funding delays caused by President Donald Trump’s attempts to change the rules for homeless services and affordable housing grants haven’t stopped developers from investing in permanent supportive housing.  Since taking office, Trump’s administration has sought to withhold billions in previously awarded funding for groups […]

How the Builder’s Remedy Is Challenging Exclusionary Zoning Parking spaces. Less traffic. Sunlight apartments. ‘Cleaner’ and ‘safer’ streets. NIMBYs have a number of excuses for why public and low-income housing would be better elsewhere. ‘Yes, soaring housing costs are a problem, as is homelessness, but our neighborhood is not going to contribute part of the

County Leaders Aim for Functional Zero by 2030 Through Housing First Strategies and Community Collaboration Just outside Baltimore, local leaders have launched an ambitious plan to reach a “functional zero” level of homelessness — a state in which the number of people needing housing is less than the number of available housing units in the

A Clear Breakdown of Key Terms to Help the Public Speak Up, Push for Housing Solutions, and Move Past Harmful Misconceptions It’s happened to most of us at least once. We’ve walked past someone who didn’t have a home and wished we could help, but the fear of saying the wrong thing kept us silent

Inside a New York City Shelter Where Surveillance, Fractured Oversight, and Fear Shape Daily Life Lisa had been asleep when the sound jolted her awake — a hard knock, a pause, then the click of a key card at her door. Light spilled in from the hallway as someone opened it, checking that she was

From Housing Court to City Policy, a Formerly Homeless New Yorker Explains What’s at Stake I type this from my teeny tiny one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment, which is not subsidized but considered “affordable” at $1,600 a month. My landlord could easily rent this apartment for significantly more. And that’s a problem – for me, for my

As Housing Costs Rise and Fixed Incomes Fall, Older Adults Are Pushed into Homelessness for the First Time In June, Invisible People interviewed Kim, a homeless senior woman in Grants Pass. She and her cat Sylvester had to pack up their tent every Saturday due to local enforcement rules, moving from park to park. Since

How Youth-Led, Wraparound Support Is Helping Homeless Young People Build Independent Futures MY House, a shelter for homeless youth in Wasilla, Alaska, has seen great outcomes for its residents thanks to its comprehensive programming and focus on the unique needs of homeless youth in the area. Since its founding in 2010, MY House has helped

Inside the Expansion of Community First! Village, Where Tiny Homes and Relationships Help People Heal Homelessness is often framed as a problem to manage. In Austin, one nonprofit is treating it as something to heal. Mobile Loaves & Fishes is in the process of expanding its Community First! Village, a large-scale effort that will ultimately

How a Veteran’s Path Out of Homelessness Became Another Source of Uncertainty On a humid May afternoon, Yvonne LeMon signed a one-year lease on an apartment in Philadelphia, believing a federally funded program would cover her rent and support her transition from homelessness. By June, she was already confronting a new threat: her housing, she