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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

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