• California governor proposes $12 billion to house state's homeless population

    California governor proposes $12 billion to house state's homeless population

    May 11, 2021 07:31 PM EST

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in the state into housing and to “functionally end family homelessness” within five years. Newsom's plan was announced in a statement and he was expected to provide more ...

  • WATCH: HHS Secretary Becerra and HUD Secretary Fudge announce vaccine rollout for homeless

    WATCH: HHS Secretary Becerra and HUD Secretary Fudge announce vaccine rollout for homeless

    May 05, 2021 01:57 PM EST

    ... capital that’s had high rates of coronavirus and relatively low rates of vaccination. The organization runs community health centers while also working to end homelessness among families. “I think it is past time that this country understands that its government does care about them,” said Fudge, a former Ohio ...

  • How to help India during its COVID surge — 12 places you can donate

    How to help India during its COVID surge — 12 places you can donate

    May 04, 2021 03:10 PM EST

    ... here. The Transgender Welfare Equity and Empowerment Trust is raising funds to financially support transgender Indians, who are often rejected by their families and experiencing homelessness, a risk factor for COVID. You can donate here. Care India, a humanitarian organization that focuses on helping marginalized women and girls, is providing ...

  • What Canada's universal health system could teach the U.S. about managing a pandemic

    What Canada's universal health system could teach the U.S. about managing a pandemic

    Apr 15, 2021 10:30 PM EST

    ... that the preexisting condition has been chronic neglect. William Brangham: Dr. Andrew Boozary teaches public health and also works at a clinic serving people experiencing homelessness Andrew Boozary: We can't say that we have a perfect system. We can't say that we have one, when you think about ...

  • Minnesota enforces curfew, deploys National Guard after new police shooting sparks protest

    Minnesota enforces curfew, deploys National Guard after new police shooting sparks protest

    Apr 12, 2021 10:55 PM EST

    ... so that means that we are not thinking about police be an armed agent of the state as the de facto response to issues of homelessness or substance abuse or mental health or somebody who is driving five miles over the speed limit. There are other responses. And ,in fact ...

  • The stories behind 5 wonderful lives cut short by COVID-19

    The stories behind 5 wonderful lives cut short by COVID-19

    Apr 09, 2021 10:25 PM EST

    ... and administrator for nearly two decades. Described as fun-loving, Sister Christine would drop anything to comfort the sick and support her neighbors struggling with homelessness or addiction, friends said. She also loved to sing, particularly folk songs about her beloved West Virginia. Sister Christine Riley was 84 years old ...

  • 'Abandoned by everyone else,' neighbors are banding together during the pandemic

    'Abandoned by everyone else,' neighbors are banding together during the pandemic

    Apr 05, 2021 04:34 PM EST

    ... mutual aid networks can also offer political critiques, highlighting inequalities that community members -- particularly people of color and those who are undocumented, incarcerated or experiencing homelessness -- have faced for decades and over the last year, exacerbated by the pandemic. Last spring, hundreds of local mutual aid groups sprung up across ...

  • Estimated 25 million Americans to see boost in federal food benefits

    Estimated 25 million Americans to see boost in federal food benefits

    Apr 03, 2021 12:06 AM EST

    ... became a plaintiff in the California case. Hall, who is in her mid-40s, was living in transitional housing in late 2019 and dealing with homelessness as the pandemic began. She has health conditions, including Type 2 diabetes, that dictated her nutrition needs, and she would turn to food banks ...

  • States struggle to get rent relief to tenants amid pandemic

    States struggle to get rent relief to tenants amid pandemic

    Mar 30, 2021 06:58 PM EST

    Mississippi allocated $18 million for rental relief but committed less than $3 million by December. The state said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development determined the grant program it relied on could not help tenants behind on rent, only those at risk of homelessness. A HUD spokesman ...

  • Why the U.S. is rethinking its approach to poverty

    Why the U.S. is rethinking its approach to poverty

    Mar 19, 2021 10:00 AM EST

    ... Lack of a political will has obstructed greater progress on child poverty are cold and straightforward, said Cara Baldari, vice president, family economics, housing and homelessness at First Focus on Children, a child advocacy organization. "Kids can't vote," she said. That has helped perpetuate a trend in the U ...