Tag: housing
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 ...
Fair Future Act Takes Aim at Housing Discrimination Over Drug Convictions
Bipartisan congressional lawmakers have filed a bill that would repeal a decades-old federal statute ...
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 ...
Illinois HOPE Act Would “Codify Harm Reduction” and Housing-First
Illinois is considering a wide-ranging harm reduction bill that advocates believe may have traction ...
HHS Unveils “STREETS” Initiative, Ramping Up Coerced Drug Treatment
At a sumptuous resort just outside Washington, DC, on February 2 for “Prevention Day,” ...
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 ...
SF Mayor Scraps Plan to Add 1,500 Shelter Beds, a Key Campaign Promise
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie (D) has reneged on a key campaign promise to ...
Texas Lawmakers Target Unhoused People and Service Providers
Several bills advancing through the Texas legislature will, if enacted, escalate the state’s war ...
