Tag: homelessness
Louisiana “Homelessness Court” Would Offer Treatment, Forced Labor
On April 28, a Louisiana Senate committee advanced a homelessness criminalization bill brightly titled ...
Lack of Public Bathrooms Makes Cities More Hostile
Back in February, a woman shared a tale of urban woe on social media. ...
DOJ, VA to Take Legal Guardianship of Unhoused Veterans for “Ongoing Care”
On March 11, the Department of Justice and the Department of Veterans Affairs jointly ...
Mortality Rate for LA’s Unhoused Residents Drops for the First Time
For the first time in the decade that the Los Angeles County Department of ...
Impending Parks Ban Looms Over Phoenix Harm Reduction Efforts
A looming ban on harm reduction services in public parks in Phoenix has just ...
Oklahoma Bill Proposes Reimbursing Homeowners for Nearby Homelessness
Oklahoma Senator Julie Daniels (R) has proposed legislation that would allow certain residents in ...
Twenty States Sue Trump Admin Over Cuts to Housing-First Grants
A coalition of state attorneys general is suing the Department of Housing and Urban ...
Harm Reduction Outreach Needs to Get Comfortable With Booty-Bumping
A few years back I had an outreach-based job doing hepatitis C testing and ...
Confusion and Anger in Portland Over Trump Troop Deployment
On September 29, Chief Bob Day of the Portland Police Bureau expressed bewilderment as ...
Memphis Harm Reductionists Create Survival Guide for Trump Crackdown
On September 15, President Donald Trump announced he’s deploying the National Guard and other ...
