Author name: Michel Degive

Why the Point-in-Time Count Can’t Fully Measure Homelessness — and Why That Matters for Public Understanding and Policy This week, as volunteers across the country prepare to count people sleeping outside in the middle of the night, the annual Point-in-Time (PIT) Count will once again attempt to measure homelessness on a single evening in January. […]

A Safe Outdoor Space That Helped More Than 2,000 People Leave the Streets Could Close as Funding Expires Phoenix is on track to run out of money to support one of its most successful solutions to unsheltered homelessness to date, and it could cause thousands of people to become homeless again. For the last two

After More Than a Decade of Delays and Appeals, the VA Is Once Again Told to Fulfill Its Mission Homeless veterans have won their appeal in a class action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs. A federal appeals court has ruled that the VA must finish the housing project it started building in Los

A Housing First Strategy Shows Measurable Results Amid Growing Federal Uncertainty One major American city has significantly reduced chronic homelessness over the last year, even as federal policy changes make the homeless service landscape less predictable. Atlanta reduced its chronic homeless population by 9% year over year through a more than $212 million initiative called

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