Tag: homelessness
How Halifax’s Safe Supply Hotels Brought Hope in the Early Pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020, there was a confirmed case at ...
Winnipeg Offers Winter Fire Barrels, Not Homes, to Unhoused People
The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba is giving free steel fire barrels to unhoused residents ...
SF Mayor London Breed Plans More Drug Arrests to “Take Back Our Tenderloin”
Declaring that “We need to take back our Tenderloin,” a hip, mixed-income neighborhood in ...
What Will San Diego’s New “Harm Reduction” Shelter Actually Be Like?
San Diego is building what’s being touted as the city’s first harm reduction-based homeless ...
What Could Austin’s Basic Income Pilot Mean for People Who Use Drugs?
Austin, Texas, is known for music festivals, a booming tech industry and progressive politics ...
Austin Begins Enforcing Homeless Camping Ban; Rest of Texas to Follow
On August 9, the city of Austin began enforcing a public camping ban first ...
Homeless New Yorkers Fight for Their Rights as Hotel Evictions Continue
Winston Tokuhisa first became homeless in 2006, at the age of 20. Since then, ...
Questions Linger Over California’s Record Homelessness Funding
On July 19, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a $12 billion funding package to ...
Texas State-Run HIV Meds Program Survives Funding Crisis, But Uncertainty Remains
After months of keeping participants in the dark, a Texas state-run program that covers the ...
Scapegoating of Chesa Boudin Reflects Ugly Attitudes to Unhoused People
A few years back, an article describing Fayetteville made the small North Carolina city ...
