Addresses the difficulty of conducting a census of the homeless. The government's need for a number on which to base aid programming; The types of living situations which amount to homelessness or lead to it; The 1995 annual report of the National Alliance to End Homelessness; Errors in ...
There's also significant overlap between being incarcerated and being homeless, another vulnerable group that's been hard hit by COVID-19. According to a report by the Prison Policy Initiative, formerly incarcerated people are nearly 10 times more likely to be homeless than the general popula...
Coupled with the long-term homeless crisis, many Americans are now scrambling to figure out how to obtain or sustain a place they call home under the economic toll Covid-19 has had on families and individuals across the country. “When people are struggling to afford their rent, when they...
Each month, about 71 million Americans - retirees, disabled workers and others – receive checks from Social Security. But as we first reported last fall, each year, about a million people get something else in the mail – a bill. They're told they owe the government money, so...
High immigration and fertility rates of Latinos have since resulted in population growth in many areas across the United States (Passel et al., 2022). Even though the majority of Latinos are US-born citizens (e.g., 60% of Latinos in 2000 and 67% in 2020), they are commonly stereotyped...
It’s still the land of opportunity, but now it’s confronting the human cost of its success. The new buzzwords: responsibility and empathy.
I recommend you try travelling sometime and seeing countries where they don't have entire sections of cities dominated by homeless. How about you actually care and help out Americans like retired veterans fighting for food stamps or 9/11 firefighters fighting for healthcare as they die to ...
“hidden homelessness” (Watson with Austerberry1986), who do not access homeless services but stay in other temporary forms of accommodation such as the houses of relatives, friends, hostels, or bed and breakfasts. There are millions of people living in makeshift, precarious housing situations ...
The systemic obstacles to greater financial mobility for communities of color are clear. A2020 analysis by Citiof four key areas — wages, housing, education and investment — found that inequities for Black Americans have cost the U.S. economy up to $16 trillion over the past 20 years. ...
HomeAid Hawaii, a nonprofit organization that helps homeless people find housing, said Routh offered his company’s services to help with roofing and flooring for the construction of tiny homes from 2018 to 2020. “He was not compensated, and no complaints were recorded during his time with ...