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Newsom Orders Officials To Dismantle Homeless Encampments
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is ordering state officials to begin dismantling thousands of homeless encampments, calling on government...
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Jul 25, 20242 min read
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Cities Take Hard Line On Homeless Camps Under Court Ruling
Until recently, federal appellate courts limited how far cities could go to clear homeless encampments. Last month, the Supreme Court...
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Jul 15, 20242 min read
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Homeless Killed At Alarming Rate in Arizona's Maricopa County
The night James Cruz disappeared, his sister knew something was wrong. Cruz had been living in Tempe, Arizona’s ‘River Bottom’ homeless...
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Jul 8, 20242 min read
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Cities May Ban Public Sleeping By The Homeless, High Court Rules
A public sleeping ban in Grants Pass, Oregon, did not unconstitutionally criminalize homelessness, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The...
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Jun 28, 20243 min read
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Conservatives Seek To Move Homeless Aid To Drug Treatment
In October, Florida will become the latest state to ban homeless camping. Starting in January, any city that does not enforce the ban can...
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May 21, 20242 min read
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Supreme Court Case Unlikely To Impact Homelessness, Advocates Say
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most consequential case regarding homelessness to come before it in...
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Apr 25, 20242 min read
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Justices Inclined To Let Cities Crack Down On Homeless Encampments
The Supreme Court seems ready to let cities crack down on homeless encampments. In arguments on Monday, conservative justices questioned...
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Apr 23, 20242 min read
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California Voters Approve Measure That Aims to House Homeless
A California bond initiative that enables the issuance of $6.4 billion in bonds to pay for housing for people with addiction and mental...
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Mar 22, 20241 min read
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Justices Will Decide If Cities Can Punish Homeless Campers
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could transform U.S. homelessness policy. The case is the most significant legal challenge to the...
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Jan 15, 20242 min read
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After Attempted Crackdown On Homelessness In Montana, Stories Of Violence Against The Unhoused
In Kalispell, Montana, city leaders have attempted to crack down on homelessness by a series of measures including an ordinance to punish...
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Jan 9, 20242 min read
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Homeless Residents Sue WA City Over Camping Ban
The Seattle/King County, Wa., Coalition on Homelessness and three homeless Burien. Wa., residents, represented by the Northwest Justice...
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Jan 5, 20242 min read
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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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Dec 22, 20232 min read
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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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Nov 28, 20232 min read
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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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Nov 21, 20232 min read
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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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Aug 3, 20232 min read
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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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Jul 19, 20232 min read
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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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May 19, 20232 min read
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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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Jan 17, 20232 min read
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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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Dec 12, 20222 min read
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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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Oct 25, 20222 min read
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