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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... increased risk of exposure. She emphasized that we must also consider how to make the vaccine available to undocumented people, low-income people, those experiencing homelessness, and other populations that often struggle with health care access. People in these situations, she noted, can be the same ones doing essential work ...
... able to pay rent in April. That's causing housing advocates to warn of what they see as a worst-case scenario, a spike in homelessness right in the middle of the pandemic. That could expose more people to the virus, if they end up in shelters, where it's ...
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