The Supreme Court ruling has compelled cities nationwide to reconsider their approaches to homelessness. While some cities have rushed to implement new policies — sometimes to the further detriment of unhoused individuals — this ruling has also fueled advocacy efforts […]
Category: Housing
Hiding a City’s Homelessness Crisis Through Displacement: What The Olympics Remind Us about Harmful Practices
Over the past year, the French government has evicted thousands of people from their homes and bussed thousands of unhoused individuals out of the city with the promise of housing elsewhere. These people often end up in emergency shelters in […]
Expanding HUD’s Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) Program
This year we celebrate the five-year anniversary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s award-winning Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) program. FYI was established in 2019 as a result of the advocacy of current and former foster […]
The Importance of Partnerships in Ending Youth Homelessness
Every young person deserves the dignity and security of stable housing, and this is especially true for youth and young adults formerly in foster care. No young person should transition out of foster care without a plan for housing and […]
Fair Housing and Why It Matters to Ending Homelessness
The twin goals of the Fair Housing Act are to prohibit discrimination in housing, and to replace existing patterns of residential racial segregation with “truly integrated and balanced living patterns.” Notwithstanding, racial discrimination in market rate housing informs the disproportionate […]