• As housing costs boom, how home-buyers in one city search for affordability

    As housing costs boom, how home-buyers in one city search for affordability

    Aug 04, 2021 10:45 PM EST

    (LAUGHTER) John Cobbinah: We haven't. Paul Solman: Cobbinah, originally from Ghana, and his wife, Pamela Sue, came here to escape Sacramento's rising homelessness, they say, and its blue politics. But the license plates? John Cobbinah: We were driving, house-hunting. Somebody held a sign, "Go back to ...

  • Millions of renters are facing evictions. Will the government step in to help?

    Millions of renters are facing evictions. Will the government step in to help?

    Aug 03, 2021 10:45 PM EST

    ... eviction case has a chance to make its way through the court system. Stephanie Sy: Are you talking to clients who are really concerned about homelessness at this point, that really could see their families and children turned out on the streets? Zach Neumann: Absolutely. And, I mean, it's ...

  • Millions of tenants at risk as federal eviction ban ends

    Millions of tenants at risk as federal eviction ban ends

    Jul 31, 2021 08:37 PM EST

    ... expire tonight. A last-minute effort by House Democrats to extend the moratorium failed late yesterday. Missouri Democratic representative Cori Bush, who previously struggled with homelessness, spent the night on the capitol steps in a push for the senate to extend the ban. The moratorium was put in place to ...

  • For girls with mothers in prison, a summer camp offers much-needed support

    For girls with mothers in prison, a summer camp offers much-needed support

    Jul 21, 2021 10:30 PM EST

    ... to breaking the cycle of incarceration. Children with incarcerated parents are at greater risk of dropping out of school, of experiencing mental health issues, and homelessness, all factors that also put them at greater risk of being incarcerated themselves. But every year, for three summer days, this camp is their ...

  • Extreme heat further complicates the lives of homeless women and LGBTQ people

    Extreme heat further complicates the lives of homeless women and LGBTQ people

    Jul 06, 2021 09:02 PM EST

    ... where more than half of the homeless populations are unsheltered — including California, Oregon, Nevada, Hawaii, Arkansas and Arizona. States with the largest absolute increases in homelessness between 2019 and 2020 include Texas and Washington, other states recording extreme heat. As climate change exacerbates the effects of weather events like flooding ...

  • In the Big Apple, a crowded mayoral race to save a city 'gone to hell'

    In the Big Apple, a crowded mayoral race to save a city 'gone to hell'

    Jun 21, 2021 10:40 PM EST

    ... Jawanza James Williams is Black, gay, HIV-positive and, shortly after moving here, had no place to stay. Jawanza James Williams: And, suddenly, I experienced homelessness. And while I was in the shelter, I realized that everyone around me was Black and brown. Hari Sreenivasan: He is also the organizing ...

  • California weighs extending eviction protections past June

    California weighs extending eviction protections past June

    Jun 21, 2021 08:18 PM EST

    ... be more than enough to cover all of the unpaid rent in the state, according to Jason Elliott, senior counselor to Newsom on housing and homelessness. But the state has been slow to distribute that money, and it's unlikely it can spend it all by June 30. A report ...

  • What it will take to reform policing, according to 3 experts

    What it will take to reform policing, according to 3 experts

    May 25, 2021 10:53 PM EST

    ... when you think about the effects of poverty, we think about, like, how communities are designed in ways to create conflict, these are policy choices. Homelessness is a policy choice. Poverty is a policy choice. We could actually set people up with a whole different set of options on the ...

  • George Floyd's family holds rally and march in his memory

    George Floyd's family holds rally and march in his memory

    May 24, 2021 01:41 PM EST

    ... from corporations and other organizations, Harris the average donation to the nonprofit was $47. Harris said the group has also funded an initiative in Fayetteville to help reduce homelessness, a scholarship program for law school students and an internship program at Texas A&M University, where Floyd went to school.

  • How piecemeal police reform is setting the stage for national change

    How piecemeal police reform is setting the stage for national change

    May 23, 2021 08:39 PM EST

    ... abuse counselors, homeless experts, and activists are asking for the same darn thing. Don't send a badge and a gun when the crisis is homelessness. Send a roof and four walls. Then you don't have to worry about them being better. You don't have to worry about ...