by dbs | Aug 14, 2022 | Homelessness
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward. One steamy morning last July, Ana Rausch commandeered a shady corner of a parking lot on the northwest side of Houston. Downing a jumbo iced coffee, she...
by dbs | Aug 14, 2022 | Homelessness
Christ House was one of the first medical respite centers, and it’s now one of 133 programs spread across 37 states and Washington D.C. They all offer homeless people a safe place to recover from surgery or other acute illness, learn to manage a chronic...
by dbs | Jul 31, 2022 | Homelessness
“The only way you’re going to remove the hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe, throughout our nation, millions of people … and help make our cities clean, safe and beautiful again,” Donald Trump said this week at a quasi-homecoming rally in D.C., “is to open up...
by dbs | Jul 11, 2022 | Homelessness
Nearly two decades ago, California voters passed a landmark tax on millionaires envisioned as a game changer for mental health. “No one who is mentally ill and now on the street will be on the street in five years,” promised the late Rusty Selix, who was executive...
by dbs | May 11, 2022 | Homelessness
Lorenzo Johnson has a Batman watch and a methamphetamine addiction. He has a pair of Vans and a schizophrenia diagnosis, a prison record and a niece named Jameelah Jones, who lives alongside him here in a small patch of shared squalor. Read or listen to the story at...
by dbs | Apr 17, 2022 | Homelessness
“She ran up to him and jumped up on him … he had a big ol’ smile on his face.” Read the article by Lily Feinn at:...
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