Blog Category: Unsheltered Homelessness
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There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Address Encampments
Recent polls of Angelenos show that leading up to the mayoral election, demand for an urgent, constructive response to the crisis of homelessness is higher than ever. The primary results…
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HUD Creates New Funding Opportunity to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness
There is growing public concern about unsheltered homelessness.
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Services Not Sweeps: Ending the Criminalization and Forced Displacement of Unhoused People
Los Angeles – in addition to many other cities across the nation – has again intensified criminalization and forced displacement efforts over the…
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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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The Disturbing Realities of Homelessness and Violence
There is grief, everywhere. In a time when COVID brings such a feeling of loss, news reports and social media are full of death. Presumably,..
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Is Unsheltered Homelessness About to Increase in Your Town? Much Will Depend on Decisions We Make Now.
In response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and with a surge of new federal resources, many states and localities began offering a new…
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Unsheltered Homelessness and the NOFO
The streets have become the cruelest and most unsuitable waiting room for housing. While there is mass consensus that unsheltered…
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Is Being Homeless a Crime?
Living on the streets means constantly being vulnerable – to the elements, to illness and hunger, and to the very group who should be there to protect you: law enforcement.
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Increases in Individual Homelessness: A Gender Analysis
According to the most recent Point-in-Time data analyzed in The State of Homelessness: 2020 Edition, 2016 began a trend in the number of individual adults experiencing homelessness, rising…
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New Research: Unsheltered Homelessness is a Health Crisis
Unsheltered individuals manage profound health challenges that broadly define them as a social group. This is the basic conclusion of a recent California Policy Lab (CPL) brief…