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... Weisberg, legal director for the advocacy group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, says local officials can no longer pretend supply and demand works when so many families are facing homelessness. In June, 1.3 million California households reported being behind on rent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland's official slogan is "The City That Works," but after a tumultuous few years, many residents feel the city is anything but that. Homelessness and gun violence are surging and parts of downtown are struggling, unable to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice ...
... should care about, democracy and Dobbs. These are the major issues. And a lot of people said, no, actually, we care about crime, inflation, and homelessness. And a lot of Democrats, I think, for too long said, no, you shouldn't care about those things. You should care about these ...
A Texas mother of a toddler, scraping by on her husband's income, was desperate to return to work but struggling to afford child care. A young Florida warehouse worker had barely left behind a turbulent past of homelessness and abuse only to be mired in debt. When both women ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon mayor plans to ban camping on Portland streets and move unhoused people to campsites designated by the city, as the growing homelessness population has become the top concern for the vast majority of residents. “The magnitude and the depth of the homeless crisis in our ...
... got to be a priority one. And then the final issue that I think is undercounted, and the Republicans are talking about a lot, is homelessness, and homelessness allegedly just rampant on the streets of the cities. What do we do with the homeless? And so those are issues about ...
... think cost of living consistently polls on the top of voters' concerns this year. But it also is just linked, as I mentioned, with the homelessness crisis that is continuing and is often debated as one and the same, with the candidates talking about increasing the amount of housing production ...
... recognizes it intellectually. And I think there have been several efforts to kind of draw both communities together to address everything from housing prices, to homelessness, to public safety. But there's also the sense here in Los Angeles, where Latinos make up more than 50 percent of the population ...
... be pointing in the right direction, Oklahoma City Council is accepting proposals right now for an alternative response team to 911 calls for those experiencing homelessness. And they just recently reestablished their Human Rights Commission to better hear citizen concerns. Amna Nawaz: And we know it's a story you ...
... nation's most populous state with just over 39 million residents, has a housing shortage that has driven up home prices and contributed to a homelessness crisis. State officials say California needs to build about 310,000 new housing units each year over the next eight years, more than 2 ...
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