Tag: Homelessness
Homeless patients with COVID-19 often go back to life on the...
J. Robin Moon, City University of New York
In 2019, about 567,715 homeless people were living in the United States. While this number had been...
What the CDC eviction ban means for tenants and landlords: 6...
Katy Ramsey Mason, University of Memphis
Editor’s note: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order on Sept. 1 banning evictions of people...
3 innovations helping the homeless in Eugene, Oregon
Mohamed Hassan Awad, California State University, Los Angeles
Even when the economy is booming, the United States has trouble figuring out how to deal with...
Transgender homeless Americans find few protections in the law
Jonah DeChants, Colorado State University
Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, made news earlier this year for his statements about...
Los Angeles is far from ending homelessness – but other American...
Brenda Wiewel, University of Southern California
Los Angeles became ground zero for America’s homelessness crisis after President Donald Trump visited the city on Sept. 17.
“We...
The 2019 government shutdown is just the latest reason why poor...
Jamila Michener, Cornell University
I conduct a lot of in-depth interviews with people like a woman I’ll call Angie as part of my work as...
Shelter design can help people recover from homelessness
Jill Pable, Florida State University
Some 544,000 people in the United States have no shelter every night, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and...
Why turning homelessness into a crime is cruel and costly
Joseph W. Mead, Cleveland State University and Sara Rankin, Seattle University
Increasingly, local laws punish Americans who are homeless.
By severely restricting or even barring the...
EXPLORING NATURE
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
Tevis Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, American University School of International Service
The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President...
