Credit to Author: Sarah Grochowski| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:55:10 +0000
Each 10-by-10-foot unit will be able to house two people with heating, storage and beds, according to a staff report.
Read moreCredit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:14:56 +0000
Every 2 seconds, climate change is forcing someone from their homes, according to data from Oxfam International. These climate-fueled disasters are the number one cause of internal displacement globally. More than 20 million people have lost their homes. This translates to one person every two seconds
Credit to Author: Dan Fumano| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:26:08 +0000
Trans and queer people are overrepresented in city’s homeless population. Vancouver has bought a building to offer these vulnerable people safe housing.
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Credit to Author: Glenda Luymes| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 23:58:36 +0000
New report identifies several pathways into homelessness for youth, including unsafe family home experiences, an unsafe foster care system, addiction and mental health issues, affordability and discrimination.
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Credit to Author: Emma Ockerman| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:31:52 +0000
“Many of these affordable homes were snatched up during a foreclosure by corporations who then kept the houses vacant or flipped them for hefty profits.”
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Credit to Author: Rick Paulas| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:50:29 +0000
“If you look at the logical extension of what’s going on, whether it’s a move-along law or one-way bus ticket, it’s ‘let’s erase people, let’s render them invisible.'”
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Credit to Author: Kevin Griffin| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:38:11 +0000
Jaraad Marani had such “an eye-opening, life-changing experience” being a volunteer on the homeless count that he plans to help out again next month
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Credit to Author: Emma Ockerman| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:12:33 +0000
It’s a new nationwide high, and states with certain traits had the biggest spikes.
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Credit to Author: Emma Ockerman| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:34:31 +0000
VICE News rode around with a group of volunteers in Phoenix, where rent is rising faster than any other major city, while they tried to survey the city’s homeless population.
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Credit to Author: Emma Ockerman| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:07:05 +0000
The mothers had been demanding for weeks that the real estate company that owns the home consider selling the property to them at a fair price.
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