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Punitive Ordinances in El Paso County Are Driving Up Homelessness While Shelter Beds Decline Homelessness is growing rapidly across one county in southern Colorado despite its efforts to criminalize the issue. According to El Paso County’s latest Point-in-Time Count, there were more than 1,700 people experiencing homelessness last year. That figure is the most ever […]

Families Priced Out of Housing Are Forced into Hotels and Unsafe Conditions as Schools Struggle with the Crisis Student homelessness is rising rapidly in central Florida, and service providers are struggling to keep up. According to the latest data from the Orange County Public School system, there were more than 8,800 homeless students during the

The ROAD to Housing Act Could Increase Affordable Housing Nationwide — But Key Gaps Risk Leaving Vulnerable Individuals Behind If one thing has been consistent in Congress since Trump took office, it is the partisanship in our country. The Senate and the House have been as divided as ever. Republicans have ignored warning calls from

The Unraveling of the Emergency Housing Voucher Program Reveals How Decades of Neglect and Budget Cuts Set Families Up to Fail—Again From lifesaving relief to looming eviction, the unraveling of the Emergency Housing Voucher program reveals the fragile promise of stability for families fleeing homelessness and domestic violence, just as new federal budget plans threaten

A New ‘Civility Ordinance’ Makes Swaths of Houston Permanently Off Limits to Homeless People—Pushing Poverty Out of Sight, Not Out of Existence Houston’s dystopian-sounding “civility ordinance” has been extended so that several areas of downtown are now off limits to homeless people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The ordinance now bans sitting,

Trump’s New Executive Order Revives Failed Policies of Institutionalization, Ignoring the Proven Solution: Housing First Service providers and advocates warn that the Trump administration has created a dangerous new way for America to respond to homelessness. In late July, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” The

New Report Shows California Spent Billions Criminalizing Homelessness While Leaving Tens of Thousands Still on the Streets California isn’t tough on homelessness. It’s tough on homeless people. A new report highlighted by PBS shows that of the 52,000 unsheltered people recently evicted from encampments in California, only two were housed. This is to the tune

Why It Costs More to Rent When You Are Poor The cost of living is skyrocketing for everyone, but today’s rental market is particularly brutal for people in the lower and middle-income tax brackets. For this reason, some have gone so far as to describe the working class as the “new face of homelessness”. We

Flipping the Homeless Script: Too Fashionably Late for TV I arrive home from work, and the lights are out. I hit the switch and immediately know it has been cut. Of course it has. I’m living with an 18-year-old who’s, uh, being evicted. Really (would I lie to you?), and this is kind of funny:

An Interview with Dr. Owen Clayton Uncovers How Homeless Workers Helped Build America and How We Still Profit from Their Precarity Have you ever wondered what urban American cityscapes would look like in the present day if homeless transient workers from the past weren’t part of the picture? We recently delved deep into that discussion