• WATCH: Biden calls on Congress to reinstate expanded child tax credit to end hunger by 2030

    WATCH: Biden calls on Congress to reinstate expanded child tax credit to end hunger by 2030

    Sep 28, 2022 01:29 PM EDT

    ... historic opportunity for us to learn directly from those impacted.” She spoke of growing up and experiencing first-hand the impact of poverty, hunger and homelessness. “I know what it’s like to not know where your next meal will come from," she said, adding she wanted solutions so that ...

  • Oklahoma City is hoping these new recommendations can become a blueprint for police reform

    Oklahoma City is hoping these new recommendations can become a blueprint for police reform

    Sep 12, 2022 09:32 PM EDT

    ... City police during mental health crisis calls. The city council is seeking proposals for a non-police response to some 911 calls involving people experiencing homelessness. Earlier this month, the council voted 5-4 in favor of re-establishing the Human Rights Commission of Oklahoma City, which was disbanded in ...

  • HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge on soaring cost of buying and renting homes

    HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge on soaring cost of buying and renting homes

    Sep 10, 2022 09:40 PM EDT

    ... the gravity of the problem that any community can do it by themselves. It just doesn't happen that way. They cannot deal with the homelessness crisis. They cannot deal with all of the issues that go along with trying to get people into their first homes. But we are ...

  • King Charles III vows `lifelong service' as mourners honor Queen Elizabeth in Britain

    King Charles III vows `lifelong service' as mourners honor Queen Elizabeth in Britain

    Sep 09, 2022 03:11 PM EDT

    ... conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the center ground where vital help can be given," Charles said, referring to the couple's work on homelessness, mental health and other issues. And he struck a note of reconciliation after a raw family rift when he said, "I want also to ...

  • Aid pours into Pakistan as deaths from flooding cross 1,200 mark

    Aid pours into Pakistan as deaths from flooding cross 1,200 mark

    Sep 02, 2022 07:23 PM EDT

    ISLAMABAD (AP) — Planes carrying fresh supplies are surging across a humanitarian air bridge to flood-ravaged Pakistan as the death toll surged past 1,200, officials said Friday, with families and children at special risk of disease and homelessness. The ninth flight from the United Arab Emirates and the first ...

  • California's 'climate migrants' and the difficulty of finding a new home

    California's 'climate migrants' and the difficulty of finding a new home

    Aug 24, 2022 10:01 PM EDT

    ... displaced families as a temporary solution. The county recently built a 42-unit affordable housing complex for low-income people and those who have experienced homelessness for more than a year. Ben Goger, housing specialist for Mariposa County, said he’s working on planning for housing in areas where residents ...

  • Becca Balint wins Vermont's Democratic primary for U.S. House

    Becca Balint wins Vermont's Democratic primary for U.S. House

    Aug 10, 2022 01:46 AM EDT

    ... is activist Brenda Siegel, of Newfane. Last fall she spent 27 nights sleeping on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse to highlight the state’s homelessness challenge. Elected to his first two-year term as governor in 2016, Scott has focused his time in office on making Vermont more affordable ...

  • 2022 Vermont Primary Election Results

    2022 Vermont Primary Election Results

    Aug 08, 2022 08:46 PM EDT

    ... is activist Brenda Siegel, of Newfane. Last fall she spent 27 nights sleeping on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse to highlight the state’s homelessness challenge. Elected to his first two-year term as governor in 2016, Scott has focused his time in office on making Vermont more affordable ...

  • 5 reasons housing is so expensive right now

    5 reasons housing is so expensive right now

    Aug 05, 2022 07:43 PM EDT

    ... The housing at the low end of the rental market,” said Steve Berg, Vice President of Programs and Policy at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, “has continually gone up substantially faster than earnings at the lower end of the wage market.” The largest issue in the cost of finding ...

  • HUD announces $2.8 billion in grants for homeless services organizations

    HUD announces $2.8 billion in grants for homeless services organizations

    Aug 01, 2022 10:14 PM EDT

    ... experiencing homelessness move into homes and access critical supportive services like health care, education, and job training.” Fudge added that the Biden administration seeks to "prioritize equity in homelessness efforts and the humane treatment of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, and the funding announced today will help communities do just that.”