• COVID-19 is 'a crisis within a crisis' for homeless people

    COVID-19 is 'a crisis within a crisis' for homeless people

    Aug 24, 2020 11:44 PM EST

    ... their homeless populations, and securing emergency housing, such as hotels, trailers and even convention centers, to prevent communal spread. In early March, for example, the homelessness prevention and response coordinator in Colorado Springs, Colorado, arranged cross-departmental meetings with public health and nonprofits and, in just three weeks, an emergency ...

  • August 15, 2020 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

    August 15, 2020 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

    Aug 15, 2020 11:05 PM EST

    On this edition for Saturday, August 15, public health officials are worried about the decline in COVID-19 testing in the U.S. even as the number of cases and deaths decline in the country, the homelessness and healthcare crisis in Lebanon after a massive explosion in Beirut, and ‘Talking ...

  • Could federal investment prevent an eviction crisis?

    Could federal investment prevent an eviction crisis?

    Aug 08, 2020 09:36 PM EST

    While national and state eviction moratoriums have temporarily helped slow a pandemic-induced housing and homelessness crisis, they have a long-term impact. Matthew Desmond, a professor at Princeton University who helped build the first nationwide database on evictions joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the looming crisis and possible solutions ...

  • America’s COVID-19 economy struggles as cases climb

    America’s COVID-19 economy struggles as cases climb

    Aug 02, 2020 10:22 PM EST

    ... and shelter as your biggest hit hardest where people are already in miles long food minds. We're talking about the biggest food insecurity and homelessness that we've had since the Great Depression. That's really stunning. And it's already on the rise. We had homelessness rising when ...

  • Portland protest peaceful after federal presence reduced

    Portland protest peaceful after federal presence reduced

    Aug 01, 2020 10:18 PM EST

    ... also announced the creation of a Racial Justice Council to advise her on criminal justice reform and police accountability, health equity, economic opportunity, housing and homelessness, and environmental justice. Portland’s City Council also voted this week to refer a ballot measure to voters in November that would create a ...

  • Read Fauci, Redfield and Giroir's full witness testimony as submitted to the House

    Read Fauci, Redfield and Giroir's full witness testimony as submitted to the House

    Jul 31, 2020 09:05 AM EST

    ... revised form includes additional variables for populations, such as tribal nations, that may be at higher risk for severe illness and risk factors such as homelessness and disabilities. States have improved the completeness of their reporting in the past three months. In particular, the percentage of reports that include race ...

  • How dual threats of heat and COVID-19 exacerbate threats to vulnerable communities

    How dual threats of heat and COVID-19 exacerbate threats to vulnerable communities

    Jul 30, 2020 11:08 PM EST

    ... pandemic did not necessarily deter vulnerable individuals from using the cooling centers. “I think some of them feel everywhere you go, if you’re experiencing homelessness, you're asked a bunch of questions, you’re given a bunch of rules,” Schwabenlender said, noting that the community quickly adapted to wearing ...

  • Outrage after NYPD pulls protester into unmarked van

    Outrage after NYPD pulls protester into unmarked van

    Jul 29, 2020 06:59 PM EST

    ... clip was shared thousands of times, including by politicians and cable news commentators. Stone, identified by friends as a transgender activist who has been experiencing homelessness, was released from a police precinct around 1 a.m. Wednesday and ordered to return to court at a later date to face charges ...

  • ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a case for women ignored by the movement

    ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a case for women ignored by the movement

    Jul 18, 2020 09:21 PM EST

    ... and it's not that identity doesn't matter. It's that survival comes first. If you've never had to worry about hunger or homelessness or any of these other things, if you think of them as separate issues that affect those amorphous people over there because your world ...

  • Berkeley moves toward removing police from traffic stops

    Berkeley moves toward removing police from traffic stops

    Jul 15, 2020 10:52 PM EST

    ... that calls for a public committee to hash out details of a new Berkeley Police Department that would not respond to calls involving people experiencing homelessness or mental illness. The committee also would pursue creating a separate department to handle transportation planning and enforcing parking and traffic laws. The council ...