Tag: housing
One Year on, Oregon Drug Decriminalization Is Boosting Harm Reduction and Housing
February 1 marks the one-year anniversary since Measure 110 took effect in Oregon, decriminalizing ...
Winnipeg Offers Winter Fire Barrels, Not Homes, to Unhoused People
The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba is giving free steel fire barrels to unhoused residents ...
We’ll Keep Denying Public Housing Over Marijuana Use, Insists Biden Administration
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says it is required to ...
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 ...
“I Want to Feel Joyful”: Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza on Pride, Juneteenth and LGBTQ Labor
Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza is many things: Black, Rwandan, queer, an immigrant. They are an advocate, ...
Scapegoating of Chesa Boudin Reflects Ugly Attitudes to Unhoused People
A few years back, an article describing Fayetteville made the small North Carolina city ...
NYC Raises Value of Rental Assistance Vouchers, Expands Eligibility
With an end to the city’s eviction moratorium looming in September, the New York ...
NYC Public Housing Residents Denounce Crackdown on Smoking in Their Own Homes
“You either become somebody who lays down and takes it, or you just get ...
Denver Sued by Advocates for Raiding Homeless Camps
People experiencing homelessness are joining with advocates to sue the city of Denver in ...
