• With wildfires raging during a pandemic, Oregon residents are pushed to the brink

    With wildfires raging during a pandemic, Oregon residents are pushed to the brink

    Sep 14, 2020 10:46 PM EDT

    ... directly relating their visit to the smoke. Cat Wise: Dorian Zuniga is an outreach worker for the Portland nonprofit Transition Projects, which helps people experiencing homelessness find housing.Since last Thursday, the organization and others have handed out more than 26,000 N95 masks provided by the city and county ...

  • Unions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice

    Unions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice

    Sep 05, 2020 04:42 PM EDT

    ... cities, including Seattle, San Francisco, New York City and Austin, Texas, have voted to defund their police departments and reallocate the money to mental health, homelessness and education services. Although some unions have a history of excluding workers on the basis of gender and race, the marriage between the racial ...

  • What CDC's eviction moratorium means for renters -- and landlords

    What CDC's eviction moratorium means for renters -- and landlords

    Sep 02, 2020 10:50 PM EDT

    ... will continue to do everything they can to pay the rent. And they would have to attest that, if they are evicted, they would face homelessness or have to double or triple up with family or friends. And if they meet all of those eligibility requirements, the renter needs to ...

  • GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn’t always match reality

    GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn’t always match reality

    Aug 31, 2020 02:15 PM EDT

    ... when people’s employment is terminated or their hours cut back, when whole families are struggling to feed themselves, we have a mass epidemic of homelessness. ... We should expect all of that to influence crime as well,” Phelps said. “It’s a powder keg.” The highest risk of violence, she ...

  • 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 ...