homelessness
Police Release Suspect, Continue Search for Killer Targeting Homeless Men in San Diego
Hudson Hongo · 07/11/16 09:35PMThird Victim Dies After String of Gruesome Attacks on Sleeping Homeless Men
Hudson Hongo · 07/10/16 11:51PMStudy: Mortality Rate for Homeless Youth in San Francisco 10 Times Higher Than That of Their Peers
Brendan O'Connor · 04/14/16 10:40AMNew York Post Succeeds in Getting Elderly Homeless Woman's Stuff Taken Away and Thrown Out
Andy Cush · 03/10/16 10:37AMThe New York Post must be feeling awfully proud of itself today. After devoting yesterday’s front cover to publicly shaming a homeless woman for keeping a fleet of shopping carts to hold her things, the paper has succeeded in getting the police to come and throw those things in the garbage. Great job, everyone.
New York Post Devotes Yet Another Cover to Antagonizing a Homeless Person
Andy Cush · 03/09/16 10:55AMCuomo Administration Demanded Investigation into NYC Homeless Shelter "Gang Rape" That Police Say Didn't Happen
Brendan O'Connor · 02/22/16 11:55PMReports: 5 Casualties in Shooting at Seattle Homeless Encampment, Gunman Still at Large
Brendan O'Connor · 01/26/16 11:37PMHomeless in Public
Hamilton Nolan · 12/28/15 04:15PMDe Blasio Announces Plan to Track Each and Every Homeless Person Living On New York's Streets
Brendan O'Connor · 12/17/15 08:51PMOn Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced “the most comprehensive street homeless outreach effort ever deployed in an American city.” The city estimates there are between three and four thousand people living on the street. The program will be called “HOME-STAT,” a reference to the NYPD’s COMPSTAT program.
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Jason Parham · 09/23/15 09:13AM
Los Angeles is set to declare a “state of emergency” and commit $100 million to help end its homelessness crisis, which has ballooned out of control. It is not exactly clear, however, where the money will come from. According to the LA Times, the budget “only recently began to recover from revenue shortfalls.”
Justice Dept.: Human Beings Need Sleep, So Stop Fining Them for Sleeping Outside
Jay Hathaway · 08/13/15 01:02PMHuman beings need sleep. Homeless people are human beings. Therefore, homeless people need sleep and shouldn’t be banned from getting it in what is often the only place they can: outdoors. That’s the simple argument the Justice Department is making in a case out of Boise, Idaho, one of the many U.S. cities with inadequate shelter space that have nonetheless attempted to bar unhoused people from sleeping outside.