Author name: Michel Degive

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

How Blackstone Fuels the Housing Crisis in San Diego and Beyond What happens to tenants who are priced out of their homes or evicted after falling behind on rent? For many, especially in high-cost cities, the next step is not stable housing — it is a low- to mid-priced hotel or motel, often an extended

Experts Warn That Punitive Laws Push Unhoused People into Danger While Worsening Stigma, Isolation, and Harm The growing criminalization of homelessness is contributing to increasing incidences of violence against people who are homeless, according to experts. Nearly every city across the country has quality-of-life ordinances that restrict or prohibit acts associated with homelessness, such as

Common-Sense Protections Soon to Be Enshrined in State Law Pennsylvanian lawmakers are taking steps to preserve the protections that homeless people lost after the Grants Pass decision. A new bill soon to be introduced in the state legislature will restore the requirement for municipalities to provide alternate shelter to homeless residents before enforcing any punitive

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Senate Bill 634 would have made a big splash if it survived in the form Pasadena Democrat Sasha Renée Pérez originally intended. She wanted to make it illegal for cities to cite or arrest homeless Californians for sleeping outside. But, faced with intense

How Job Loss, Expiring Benefits, and Rigid Assistance Systems Pushed One Woman to the Brink Even as She Did Everything ‘Right’ Sandra Gregston measures time by eligibility windows and waiting periods. Once prompted, she spoke in long, continuous explanations, naming places, dollar amounts, notices, and rules—the language of someone who had learned to navigate systems

How Agencies Are Racing to Prevent Displacement as Federal Funding Expires Public housing agencies are finding creative ways to make sure some voucher holders don’t lose their homes as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to reshuffle the deck on homeless services, according to a new issue brief. Earlier this year, the Department of Housing and