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... on someone just backfires. They need to want that. And also they say that, look, the whole point of spending this money is to address homelessness and to get people off the street. Permanent housing ends homelessness. If you're focused more on their treatment, that's a different thing ...
... dealing with real people. My name is Frederick (ph) Theus. Dana Vanderford: My name is Dana Vanderford. Fred Theus: And this is my Brief But Spectacular take on preventing homelessness before it happens.Amna Nawaz: And you can watch more Brief But Spectacular videos online at PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief.
Previous massive fires have led to increases in homelessness, including in 2018 in Sonoma County and in 2024 on Maui, whose homelessness rate soared the year after fires. State Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Los Angeles County that burned in the wildfires, said she ...
... percent to 13,851 in 2024. WATCH: A federal housing program reduced veteran homelessness by more than half. What’s next? “The reduction in veteran homelessness offers us a clear roadmap for addressing homelessness on a larger scale,” Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, said in ...
... of a 12 percent increase last year in these numbers, so roughly a third increase over two years. Both of those were record increases in homelessness that we have seen. So what I think has begun to change in this country really is two things. One is that we had ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the most significant case on homelessness in decades. The case looks at challenges to laws in a small Oregon town fining homeless people up to $300 for setting up camps in public parks. The heart of the question is whether these laws classify as cruel and unusual punishment....
... which are far more effective. John Yang: From your perspective, what`s the public health issue or what`s the public health effect implications of homelessness? Charley Willison: There are many, many grave public health effects of homelessness. If we think about homelessness, in general, people experiencing homelessness, whether it ...
... problem didn’t improve in many cities, according to state auditor's report. Among other things, the report found that the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, which is responsible for coordinating agencies and allocating resources for homelessness programs, stopped tracking spending on programs and whether programs were working in 2021 ...
... that much of that housing will be for temporary in-patient treatment, not long-term or permanent housing. “Temporary beds are not a solution to homelessness,” Vicari said. Other opponents take issue with involuntary mental health treatment, a controversial tactic used in some other states that Newsom recently expanded in ...
... policies and laws to help with that in recent years. But, really, even as more and more money and billions of dollars gets put toward homelessness issues, folks are falling into homelessness as quickly as we can bring them out in a lot of cases. William Brangham: All right, Christine ...
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