homelessness
A Shocking Number of Working People Live in Homeless Shelters
Hamilton Nolan · 09/18/13 09:45AMHomeless Man Returns Backpack Full of Cash to Best Buy Employee
Lacey Donohue · 09/15/13 06:26PMA homeless man found a backpack filled with a large sum of money, travelers checks, and a passport outside a Dorchester mall in Massachusetts on Saturday and turned it over to police officers. He alerted Boston police in front of the South Bay Mall TJ Maxx store and gave them the bag filled with $2,400 in cash, $39,500 in traveler’s checks, and a Republic of China passport. The Good Samaritan, according to Boston police, could only provide them with his name and the address of the shelter where he is currently staying.
Hamilton Nolan · 09/13/13 02:20PM
Court Rules Homeless People Are Allowed to Have Stuff
Hamilton Nolan · 06/25/13 10:27AMReddit Can Redeem Itself by Aiding the Homeless Man in This Teary Video
Adam Weinstein · 04/24/13 01:44PMFirst, watch the video. All of it. Especially from about 2:00 on.
Detroit Police Picking Up Homeless and Dumping Them Outside of City
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 04/18/13 07:20PMIn a complaint filed with the U.S. Justice Department, the Michigan ACLU says that Detroit police have been picking up homeless people from the popular Greektown neighborhood and dropping them off miles away, sometimes even outside of city limits. Homeless people have termed the practice being "taken for a ride," after police officers have repeatedly approached members of the homeless population and told them to get into vans. They are then deserted by the police, often far from any assistance, and told to never return to Greektown.
City Seeks Consultant to Figure Out How to Keep the Public Out of City Hall
Hamilton Nolan · 03/21/13 09:03AMThe city of Saratoga Springs, New York has a problem: homelessness. I mean, the problem is not that Saratoga Springs residents are forced to sleep on the streets—the problem is these homeless citizens are sleeping in City Hall. How are the city fathers supposed to conduct their important business of helping out Saratoga Springs citizens when those citizens are being all, like, dirty in their space?
Bloomberg Blames NYC's Homeless Problem on Jet Setting Playboy Millionaires
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 03/09/13 10:01AMMayor Bloomberg believes that the reason behind New York City's staggering rise in homelessness is not because of the city's high unemployment or incredible inequality, but rather people (who would be in an income bracket very much like the mayor's) who take limos and private jets on their way to the homeless shelter.
Hamilton Nolan · 03/05/13 09:33AM
Thousands Possibly Exposed in a Tuberculosis Outbreak Among LA's Homeless
Cord Jefferson · 02/22/13 02:45PMThe largest California outbreak of tuberculosis in a decade is happening in Los Angeles right now, and the Centers for Disease Control has finally dispatched a team of scientists to help LA-area authorities try to control it. The locus of the outbreak, which involves a strain of TB unique to LA, is the city's notorious Skid Row, the small constellation of streets in downtown where Southern California's most downtrodden citizens—homeless people, prostitutes, heroin addicts, combinations of all three—congregate in such close quarters that a disease outbreak was probably inevitable. Since 2007, 11 people have died of TB in LA County, according to the LA Times. In the latest outbreak, 60 of the 78 cases reported to authorities were homeless people living on or near Skid Row.
Mike Bloomberg Will Leave the Homeless Worse Off Than He Found Them
Hamilton Nolan · 02/20/13 10:30AMNew York City Michael "Mayor Mike" Bloomberg, the 20th richest human in the world, said this yesterday about his administration's policy of requiring single adults "to prove they have no other alternatives when they are seeking access to a homeless shelter," and of barring homeless families and children from city shelters during freezing weather "if officials determine they have an alternative place to sleep:"
NYC Shelters Turning Away Families Despite Dangerously Cold Temperatures
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 02/17/13 01:00PMDespite this winter actually acting wintry and cold, NYC homeless shelters have been turning away homeless families on freezing nights if they cannot prove they have nowhere else to go, the Daily News is reporting. Turning homeless individuals and families away has long been a practice of New York City's Department of Homeless Services, which relentlessly insists that you must stay with a relative or at some prior living arrangement if it is still available to you, leaving many homeless no choice but to sleep on the street rather than return to a bad living situation.
How to Solve Homelessness: The Mundane Miracles of The Doe Fund
Hamilton Nolan · 02/07/13 12:06PMCVS Manager Fatally Strangles Homeless Man for Shoplifting Toothpaste
Mallory Ortberg · 01/19/13 01:40PMHungry Homeless Man Goes to Jail for Trying to Eat a Pelican
Cord Jefferson · 09/10/12 06:20PMAfter a day of failed fishing, Sergio Alvarez was homeless and hungry in Malibu last month when he says he did what millions of red-blooded Americans do every year when they want some food: He killed a bird in order to eat it. What Alvarez didn't know is that while the type of pelican he strangled to death wasn't endangered, it was on the protected species list. The 30-year-old Alvarez was arrested on the spot, and now he's going to jail for two months after pleading no contest to misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Turning Homeless Guys into Wireless Hotspots Solves Important Problem
Max Read · 03/12/12 10:50AMNew York-based marketing firm BBH is running what they're calling a "charitable experiment" this week at the South by Southwest tech and arts festival in Austin, Texas. They've outfitted 12 homeless men, and one woman, with equipment that turns them into walking 4G wireless hotspots. It's a simple, innovative solution to an important, pressing problem: lack of internet.