Blog Category: BIPOC Populations
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Recognizing Women Experiencing Homelessness: A Women’s History Month Spotlight on Downtown Women’s Center
The experience of homelessness bears especially hard on women. Homelessness experienced by women is made unique by their disproportionate experiences of…
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Race Equity and Unsheltered Homelessness: What We Learned at Our Conference and Where We Go From Here
Many in the homeless services field know that most minority groups are overrepresented in the homelessness system and generally experience homelessness at higher rates than Whites…
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Homelessness and Black History: Poverty and Income
This is the fourth installment in a series of posts examining the historic roots of homelessness and African Americans. Prior posts can be found here, here, and here.
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Homelessness and Black History: Criminalization
This is the third installment in a series of posts examining the link between historical racism and modern homelessness. Prior posts can be found here and here.
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Homelessness and Black History: Health Care Disparities
Over the last several years, there has been a growing understanding that health and homelessness are closely connected. Not only do we recognize that homelessness is associated…
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Homelessness and Black History: Access to Housing
Homelessness is what happens when housing is out of reach. The growing gap between increasing housing costs and static wages in recent years has meant constantly rising rates of…