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Ugly Laws: The Blueprint For Trump’s Anti-Homeless Crusade

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On July 24, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a nationwide push to involuntarily commit unhoused people to institutions—claiming that roundups would “restore public order,” and demanding the reversal of legal precedents and consent decrees that “impede” the policy, a draconian move that disability rights groups argue violates civil liberties. The resultant crackdown […]

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Federal Housing Agency Adopts English-Only Policy

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HUD’s deputy secretary says the agency will speak in “one language” to fulfill its mission to help those in need.

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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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Trump’s Executive Order Criminalizing Houselessness Reveals a Familiar Dystopia

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For years, mad and disabled people have been asking Americans to fight the criminalization of disability. Will they?

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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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Facing Rising Caseloads and Stagnant Pay, Hundreds of NYC Legal Workers Strike

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The workers say their pay and workloads keep them from providing the best possible representation for their clients.

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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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Los Angeles Is Rebuilding Very Slowly From Its Devastating Wildfires. Here’s why.

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This story was originally published by Vox.com, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California Gov. Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding. The idea was that […]

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We May Have to Take Climate Risks Into Our Own Hands Now

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2023, my husband and I bought our house in southwest Colorado, in part because it backed up to open space. That was the dream: trails just past the fence, a scrubby network of oak and sage stretching out into the hills beyond. But […]

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Why So Many Low-Income Households Can’t Afford This Free Home Improvement Program

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal Weatherization Assistance Program is the oldest and largest energy efficiency initiative in American history. Born from the 1973 oil crisis, it helps low- and moderate-income households make a litany of upgrades to their homes, such as installing insulation, sealing windows, and […]

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These Los Angeles Tenants Are Saying No to Rent Hikes

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In 2018, Monica Ruiz and her neighbors found letters from their landlord taped to their doors. They were notifications of rent hikes—in some cases, increases of over 200 percent. Ruiz had lived at Hillside Villa, a large apartment complex overlooking Los Angeles’ gentrifying Chinatown, for more than 20 years. She had raised five children there. […]

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