Author name: Michel Degive

As Homelessness Hits Record Levels and Rhetoric Grows Harsher, We Honor Lives Cut Short and Demand Change Today is National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day (HPMD), the longest night of the year — a night when communities across the U.S. gather with candles, name lists, and collective grief to honor neighbors who died without a home. […]

As Family Homelessness Skyrockets, Elected Officials Say No to $9M in Shelter Funding, Revealing Impossible Choices U.S. Cities Now Face As cities across the U.S. grapple with rising rates of family homelessness, one city’s debate over providing additional funds to support more shelters highlights the struggles other communities face. Elected officials in Denver rejected a

Stripping Housing Funds and Adding Barriers Won’t Move People into Stability. It Only Builds a Dead-end System Designed to Fail. The Trump administration is turning homeless services upside down. By rescinding funding for programs that work and forcing others to put up arbitrary barriers to entry, this administration is putting thousands of people at risk

From LA to Chicago to New York, Life-Saving Housing Programs Could Vanish Overnight Under Administration’s New Restrictions Advocates are worried that a series of changes to the nation’s largest funding source for homeless services could cause hundreds of thousands of people to become homeless. President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed significant revisions to the Department

Rising Youth Unemployment, Stalled Household Formation, and a Brutal Housing Market Create a Crisis Young Adults Can’t Outrun Growing unemployment among young adults is compounding the housing challenges many face and increasing the likelihood that they will experience housing instability, according to a new report. The unemployment rate among young adults aged 16 to 24

Court Challenges, Political Chaos, and Nationwide Confusion Leave Providers Unsure How to Keep People Housed The Department of Housing and Urban Development withdrew its most recent Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Continuum of Care grant program on December 9, which included changes to homeless services funding that advocates had said presented as a

Unsheltered People Face 10 Times More Barriers to Medical Care. Street Medicine Teams Break through those Barriers with Life-Saving Support A typical day for a homeless person does not involve going to the doctor. It is highly unlikely they’ll be headed to the dentist, getting new glasses, or even filling existing prescriptions. Checking on their

New City Plan Would Force Elderly Residents to Pay for Tiny House ‘Micro-Communities’ Despite Having Nowhere Else to Go The Sacramento City Council is proposing that homeless elderly people be charged to live in temporary tiny house villages. Effectively, they intend to charge rent to people who are homeless because they cannot afford rent. Because

A Mobile, Nurse-Supported Hybrid Care Model Is Breaking Down Barriers the Healthcare System Has Ignored, Saving Lives and Money In the early years of the pandemic, healthcare was forced to transform in many ways. One of those ways was the rapid expansion in access to telehealth services. While these services improved overall healthcare accessibility, they

Sweeping New Lawsuit Says Administration’s Restrictions Will Punish Poor People, Violate Federal Law, and Dismantle Housing First A cadre of 20 states is suing the Trump administration over its proposed changes to one of the largest sources of federal funding for homeless services. The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced on November 13 that