Mayors seek solutions to U.S. homeless crisis 06:01 Share this - Copied A bipartisan group of more than 50 U.S. mayors has gathered this week to meet with WH cabinet members and members of Congress in part to discuss combatting homelessness. Mayors Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, and David...
Why LA’s homelessness crisis is unique LA County is large by almost any measure. It is home to ten million people spread over 4,000 square miles and, if it were a country, its economy would rank among the world’s 25 biggest.4Unfortunately, LA’s homelessness crisi...
Foreclosure to Homelessness: The Forgotten Victims of the Subprime Crisis: A National Call to Action This report examines the backlash of the foreclosure crisis and the many families that became homeless as a result. With the decline economy, there is a correlated decline in the revenue to suppo...
Valesca LimaaMaynooth University Social Science InstituteMary P. MurphyaMaynooth University Social Science InstituteEdinburgh University PressIrish Political Studies
About 1.8 billion people live without adequate housing. We’re in a global housing crisis — and it’s keeping millions of families, especially women and kids, from reaching their full potential. We're on a mission to change this story by bringing market-based solutions to those who need th...
As many as 84 per cent of British Columbians polled by Angus Reid last month felt the NDP government was doing a poor job responding to poverty, homelessness, drug use, addictions and the opioid crisis – the underlying issues fuelling street disorder. ...
streets. What’s more, California is much larger than New York, so the scope of the problem isdaunting.The homeless crisis has been a growing issue in California in recent years. High cost of livingand a lack of job opportunities have made it difficult for many to find stable housing. ...
Some states may receive lower scores than in previous iterations of the Index – this is intended to reflect the reality of our current youth homelessness crisis. Rather than being discouraged by a lower score, we urge states to seize the opportunity to implement policies that can help put an...
Canada in general and Vancouver in particular has a severe affordability crisis. It is a multi-dimensional problem. How can we build the additional 3.5 million units needed by 2030 to resolve the affordability crisis? The challenges are finance, high cost of land, the time constraints due to ...
Gates (The Road Ahead), Microsoft cofounder turned philanthropist, is optimistic in this cogent guide to avoiding “the worst effects of climate change.” Gates’s goal is to get from the 51 billion tons of greenhouse gasses added to the atmosphere annually to zero. This is possible, he wri...