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What I Learned In The Year I Was Homeless — 'I'm Telling Myself It's An Adventure'
"Am I really homeless?" That's what I kept asking myself during the months I was sleeping on my ex-husband's floor, my ...
'You need a permit:' Tempe feuds with homeless advocate over feeding people in parks
The meeting spot for homeless people and local nonprofits is now regularly patrolled by park rangers, who warned 78-year-old ...
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Encampment Residents Thought They’d Found Stability. Why Did Their Lease Fall Apart?
A lease agreement with the city of Sacramento let encampment residents stay indefinitely while they sought permanent housing.
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Dispersed homeless population makes for ‘hit or miss’ census of Sonoma County’s unhoused
The annual point-in-time count of those experiencing homelessness takes participants throughout Sonoma County to estimate the number of people living without proper or permanent shelter.
Many more cities ban sleeping outside despite a lack of shelter space
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s City of Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling last June allowing localities to ban outdoor camping ...
Amid funding cut threats and homeless camp sweeps, a volunteer loses hope but keeps counting
In the aftermath of Trump's threat to freeze federal funding, a long-time homelessness volunteer heads out to the streets to ...
Counting Boston’s homeless: Volunteers blanket city to help those sleeping in cold
Just after midnight on Thursday, while hundreds of thousands of Bostonians slept in warm homes with solid roofs, a collection of city employees, social workers and other caring souls searched for ...
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Homeless Advocates Sue Over New City Rules for Accessing ‘Low-Barrier’ Shelter Beds
The lawsuit targets new criteria around who qualifies for safe haven and stabilization shelters, saying it makes it harder for street homeless people to access those beds and discriminates against ...
Atlanta rethinks clearing homeless camps after a man is crushed inside his tent
Atlanta leaders are reconsidering how they dismantle homeless camps. That comes after a man in a tent was killed as a city ...
The Norman Transcript7h
Candidates divided over bill banning cities from providing homeless services
Of Norman's three mayoral candidates, one said he supports a bill that would ban the city from providing services to people ...
State moves ahead with ‘code red’ plan to protect homeless Utahns from summer heat
SB182 would act as a companion to the winter ‘code blue’ alerts, but should not require additional overnight sleeping space, ...