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DC’s Homeless Have Nowhere to Go. Trump Might Send Them to Jail.

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On the 26-mile motorcade ride from the White House to his private golf club in Northern Virginia (one of 18 in his collection), President Donald Trump observed a few tents on public land and some garbage under an overpass. Perturbed by the imagery, he issued a sweeping demand via his social media site, Truth Social: […]

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Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.

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This week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will remove homeless encampments from Washington, DC. It came at a press conference in which he declared a public safety emergency in the nation’s capital, despite violent crime numbers hitting a 30-year low. But the announcement also illustrated something else: The way the country approaches homelessness […]

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New Trump Executive Order Will Further Criminalize Homelessness, Mental Illness

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“Pushing people into locked institutions and forcing treatment won’t solve homelessness,” said an ACLU attorney.

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Eviction Fears, Disability Discrimination, and Trump’s War on Fair Housing

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This story is published in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. In Minnesota, two tenants, the parents of a young autistic son, were told that they would be evicted. The reason? One neighbor had repeatedly complained about noise stemming from the child’s behavior, though it was nothing constant nor pervasive, according to […]

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Connecticut Pilots a Better Way for Unhoused Kids and Caregivers to Access Homes

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Connecticut’s “Head Start on Housing” program could serve as a blueprint for other states nationwide.

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The Number of Unhoused Young Children Is at Crisis Level. It’s Set to Get Worse.

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Nearly 447,000 US kids under 3 were unhoused at last count. Trump’s budget bill threatens to make that number skyrocket.

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This Program Keeps Portland Clean—and Offers Unhoused People Some Dignity

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This story was originally published by Grist and Street Roots and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a Thursday morning in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, two dozen people mill around a warehouse, waiting for the results of a lottery. At 7:45 sharp, a woman sitting in an interior office calls out three […]

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“Peers, Partners, and Equals”: How a Tiny California Nonprofit Gets Unhoused People Back on Their Feet

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Standing in the parking lot of the El Portal Church of Christ in the Richmond, California area, unhoused people are quick to give O’Neill Fernandez a hug—or just chat. Some have come to shower in a mobile unit run by his employer, Safe Organized Spaces Richmond, better known as SOS. Fernandez was in their shoes, […]

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How Inequality Killed California’s Bohemian Floating Refuge

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The first anchor-outs are thought to have settled in abandoned boats bobbing atop Marin County’s Richardson Bay after nearby San Francisco’s famous earthquake and fires of 1906. Over the next century or so, the community drew artists and bohemians; mariners looking for a long-term anchorage (sanctuary for those at sea); and, increasingly after the 2008 […]

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