Homelessness Blog Posts

Sparking alarm among housing advocates, social workers, and residents, Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor has announced plans to gut Salisbury’s nationally… Read more: Mayor Randy Taylor Moves to Dismantle Salisbury’s Housing First Program, Undermining Proven Strategy for Ending Homelessness

  SALISBURY, Md. — Salisbury officials plan to overhaul the city’s Housing First program, aiming to create a more direct… Read more: Salisbury overhauls Housing First Program

As San Jose attempts to comply with the Clean Water Act and other regulations, the city has significantly reduced the… Read more: San Jose says homeless encampments are producing 90% of waterway pollution as it removes 3.6 million pounds of trash

Join Friends of the MLK Library for a summit focused on the state of mental health and homelessness in DC,… Read more: Sanctuary of Mind 10-Year Anniversary June 11, 2025

Sinai Hospital filed a lawsuit against a homeless patient for trespassing after the man was medically cleared to leave The… Read more: A Baltimore hospital sued a homeless man who refused to leave. Why?

Just in time for Thanksgiving, some formerly homeless families will be celebrating in a brand-new shelter in D.C. Mayor Muriel… Read more: New feature for DC’s latest shelter to fight homelessness: Privacy

On social media, Mychal Threets was spreading the gospel of “library joy” to hundreds of thousands of followers. Known for… Read more: Librarians Face a Crisis of Violence and Abuse

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to arrest thousands of homeless people sleeping on American streets and move them to large tent cities… Read more: Trump takes a hard line on homelessness. Why L.A. Mayor Karen Bass hopes to find common ground

The bond between people and their pets can be life-saving, especially amid the struggle for safe housing. Breaking Bread Community Shelter serves… Read more: Pet-Friendly Homeless Shelters Heal

City of Los Angeles officials are finally confronting a question that has seemed too big to answer: How much would… Read more: Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem

A notice of an impending encampment sweep is in a trash can as police keep an eye on city workers… Read more: Homeless Sweeps Are Expensive, Useless and Cruel

With strong mayoral leadership, Atlanta is not only leveraging creative financing to provide housing but also getting tough on landlords… Read more: One City’s Determination to Get Ahead of Homelessness

Homelessness is a major problem in the U.S., and it’s getting worse: A record 650,000 Americans were homeless on a single night… Read more: Homeless service providers could help more people overcome homelessness if they measured success differently