It didn’t require an audit for Californians to know the state’s homelessness efforts are poorly coordinated. But a report released last month from the state auditor has at least prompted state ...
Home is a place we pretty much all take for granted. None of us ever expect to be homeless. But that’s what happened to 23-year-old Brianna Karp, a white, middle class gal from Orange County who was ...
Homelessness routinely ranks at the top of the list when Portlanders are surveyed about the city’s biggest problems. That holds true for the close-in suburbs as well. But if my inbox and conversations ...
Earlier this year, Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed created the Mayor’s Task Force on Addressing Homelessness. The task force has ten objectives. They include confronting homelessness with a collective ...
We recently began work with the Boulder Chamber, focusing exclusively on the issue of homelessness. Over the past several months we have been talking with service providers, elected officials, ...
Last weekend, Will Schick spent a day with one of the people who sells the Street Sense Media newspaper in Washington, D.C. When that vendor had to step away for a moment, Schick waited with her ...
A limited study from a local government watchdog has found that money spent preventing homelessness may be more effective than other forms of aid, although researchers cautioned that a full accounting ...