Encampment Sweeps Gain Steam, Displacing Homeless Residents
More than 653,000 Americans are homeless, says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a 12% increase from last year. Among...
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Nov 28, 20232 min read
Advocates Condemn the Crackdown on Homelessness Encampments
Tent encampments are now spreading across the U.S. as the federal count of homeless people reached 580,000 last year, driven by a lack of...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 21, 20232 min read
How Safety Net Flaws Led To 94 NYC Cases Of Violence By Homeless
Marcus Gomez, a homeless man who had long lived with schizophrenia, started hearing voices. Then he stripped off his clothes and stalked...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 3, 20232 min read
New York Struggles with Housing Migrants To Avoid 'Tent Cities'
The crowds outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan resemble any number of cities struggling to contain a crisis of homelessness: dozens...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 19, 20232 min read
CA Makes Homeless Problem Worse With Gap in Prisoner Re-Entry
The city of Los Angeles is struggling with an increase in its homelessness, in part because of California's particular distinction among...
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Crime and Justice News
May 19, 20232 min read
After Subway Chokehold Death, NYC Offers More Help To The Homeless
New York officials are deploying more resources to help homeless people on the subway system after the widely publicized case of Jordan...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 17, 20232 min read
More Cities, States Make Public Homelessness Illegal
More cities and states have passed laws making it illegal to live out of tents and cars or sleep in public spaces as homelessness is...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 12, 20222 min read
Karen Bass Pledges To Attack Homelessness, Crime As L.A. Mayor
Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, while vying to become the first woman elected to lead the city of Los Angeles, had to go behind the scenes...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 25, 20222 min read
Focus On Housing Denver Homeless Cut Arrests, Police Time, Study Says
A new study from the Urban Institute shows that when Denver took a housing-first approach to homelessness, individuals who become housed...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 24, 20221 min read
Police Perpetuate Homelessness By Making Arrests
The combination of a mental health crisis and a decade-long real estate boom have created a new, especially vulnerable, visible...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 29, 20221 min read
Rash of Stabbings at Site of Boston Drug Market
Boston authorities responded to a series of daytime stabbings around an open-air drug market by clearing the area of people and...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 5, 20222 min read
Challenge For Cities: Reduce Police Role With Homeless in Subways
Days before New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a plan in February to deal with homeless people sheltering on the subway, three police...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 29, 20221 min read
Drunk Driver Killed Four at Oregon Homeless Encampment
A man who allegedly drove into a homeless encampment in Salem, Or., had double the legal limit of alcohol in his blood, prosecutors said...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 22, 20222 min read
How Troubled D.C. Man Came to Kill The Homeless In Two Cities
By the time Morgan Holmes and Gerald Brevard III crossed paths behind an animal shelter in Washington, D.C., they had spent years...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Man Arrested in D.C. and NYC Homeless Men Shootings
Police arrested a suspected gunman in Washington, D.C., who has been stalking homeless men asleep on the streets of New York City and...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 14, 20221 min read
D.C., NYC Police Investigate Shootings Of Homeless People
Police said they are investigating a series of homicides targeting homeless people in Washington, D.C. and New York City, according to...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 11, 20221 min read
Liberal Cities Shift To Target Homeless Encampments
After COVID-19 worsened the nation's homelessness problem, liberal cities like Portland, Or., are enacting permanent bans of many...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 25, 20222 min read
A Spike in Violent Crimes Against The Homeless During Pandemic
A 25-year-old Miami real estate agent was arrested last month for the fatal shootings of two homeless people. His alleged crimes are an...
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