Author name: Michel Degive

The homelessness advocacy sector has a fatal messaging research problem: we keep testing what makes us feel good while the opposition tests what actually wins. What we’re researching: “No matter our race, gender or income, we all need a safe place to sleep.” What the opposition is saying: “Jail is a safer place to sleep […]

A Bipartisan Funding Deal Protects HUD’s Continuum of Care Grants for Now, After Months of Advocacy and Court Battles Over Proposed Cuts President Donald Trump’s administration appears to have given up its efforts to significantly overhaul funding for homeless services and supportive housing, at least temporarily. But advocates warn that the fight to preserve this

How Charlotte’s Real Estate Professionals Are Funding Homeless Shelters — and What that Says About Our Housing System In Charlotte, North Carolina, a group of real estate industry professionals has pooled together $200,000 over the last 5 years to support the operations of local men’s shelter, Roof Above. And that’s just one of their beneficiaries.

Two Texas Cities Took Radically Different Approaches to Homelessness — and Saw Radically Different Results For three weeks in 2025, the city of Austin spent roughly $830,000 to clear hundreds of homeless encampments and 1.35 million pounds of debris. The cleanup took place from October 21 to November 8, with city staff, nonprofit workers, and

Researchers Rarely Observed Outreach as Police and Sanitation Teams Forced Unhoused Residents to Move Repeatedly A damning new report revealed that the City of Los Angeles’ signature homeless services program only serves to push unhoused residents around the city and does not meaningfully connect them with any services, despite what elected officials claim. Researchers at

As HUD Grants Expire, Cities Are Set to Lose Billions in Housing Support While Homelessness Is Projected to Surge Again Tracey Nathaniel, a certified nursing assistant and mother of two, had a decade-plus wait for a housing voucher and faced vulnerability to homelessness despite working arduously. Participating in a Philadelphia-based pilot program was her saving

Rising Costs and Shrinking Wages Have Pushed 1 Out of 2 Americans into Conditions That Lead to Homelessness Meet Madison. She’s 5’4, wears monochromatic pantsuits, and skips lunch to catch up on grading her students’ homework. She did everything they told her to do. She went to a mid-level college and earned a respectable degree.

Advocates Warn that Impounding and Scrapping Vehicles Will Push More People into Unsheltered Homelessness In October of last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 630 into law, giving a couple of California counties greater authority to dispose of more RVs. Under the old rules, Los Angeles was limited to destroying only abandoned or inoperable

After Historic Winter Storm, Experts Explain Why Cold Kills Even in Moderate Temperatures and Why Coats Aren’t Enough Without Shelter The winter storm that swept across 35 states this week sent millions of Americans indoors to wait it out. For people living outside, there was nowhere to go. And contrary to what many people think,

Proposed HUD Shifts Would Gut Permanent Supportive Housing and Disrupt Programs Keeping Nearly 2,000 People off the Streets Shifts in federal funding could cause a significant spike in evictions and homelessness in southern Nevada, advocates warn. President Donald Trump’s administration proposed sweeping changes to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care grant