Author name: Michel Degive

RENTAL Act Speeds Up Evictions, Weakens Renter Safeguards, and Is Pushing More Households Toward Homelessness Homelessness driven by eviction has long been a problem in DC. In 2020, Invisible People reporters met up with Helimah, a woman enduring vehicular homelessness with a story as tragic as it was familiar. Helimah ended up living outside because […]

From Ending Sweeps to Freezing Rents, the New Mayor’s Platform Centers Housing Over Enforcement Newly sworn-in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made clear his intention to stop encampment sweeps, which advocates and several studies have criticized as traumatic and ineffective at connecting people with suitable shelter. He has also pledged to create a

Proposed Ordinance Mirrors a Growing National Trend of Punishing Unhoused People Rather Than Investing in Housing Solutions Advocates are speaking out against a proposed ordinance in East Lansing, Michigan, that would criminalize certain acts associated with homelessness. In December, East Lansing’s city council introduced an ordinance that would prohibit people experiencing homelessness from setting up

Assembly Bill 1240 Targets Single-Family Houses While Corporate Investors Continue Clearing Out Rent-Stabilized Apartments Carmen, who has lived in her Mar Vista apartment in West Side LA for over 30 years, was served an eviction notice—and there’s nothing she can do about it. “It can’t be right that we’ve been here so many years and

Why Extreme Cold Exposes the Deadly Gap Between Warming Shelters, Available Beds, and the Reality of Homelessness Experts project this winter to be one of the snowiest in decades. Many studies point to the climate crisis as a key contributor to the inclement weather. Yet, studies show that “states most impacted by the climate crisis

Los Angeles May Eliminate Safe Parking Programs, Forcing Working People Living in their Cars Back into Unsafe and Costly Conditions Every weekday morning at 5 a.m., Steven F. pulls out of a parking lot in Reseda and begins the long drive to Marina del Rey, where he works full time as a production assistant for

How Temporary, Relocatable Interim Housing Can Help Cities Reach Functional Zero Unsheltered Faster than Traditional Shelter Models For decades, cities have chased the same goal: build enough permanent housing to solve homelessness. But while that housing is being planned, funded, and constructed, people continue to sleep outside — where their health deteriorates, their trauma deepens,

A Direct Cash Program Kept 94% of Participants Housed and Challenged Long-Held Myths About Youth Homelessness A recently completed pilot program aimed at reducing youth homelessness in Oregon suggests that the state may have cracked the code in helping this underserved population. Point Source Youth, a New York City-based nonprofit, and the Oregon Department of

Local Counts Show One of the Largest Nationwide Declines in Years, but the Federal Report Remains Unreleased The latest numbers, typically compiled into a national report released in December, have not yet been published. Early local data, however, points to a significant decrease in homelessness nationwide in 2024. The data reflects conditions during the final

Permanent Supportive Housing Is Often the Difference Between Safety and Survival—and It’s Now at Risk Ashley never knew a home could mean so much to her. She had plans to move closer to her grandmother before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. After that, her grandmother died from cancer, and those plans changed. Ashley married someone she