• 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 ...

  • 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • How a coronavirus vaccine will get to market

    How a coronavirus vaccine will get to market

    Jul 08, 2020 10:43 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Why more renters are being evicted in the middle of the pandemic

    Why more renters are being evicted in the middle of the pandemic

    Jul 07, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Cities try to arrest their way out of homeless problems

    Cities try to arrest their way out of homeless problems

    Jun 29, 2020 06:47 PM EDT

    ... ordinances avoid the same fate. Kahn said he designs them to target the conduct of panhandlers, not their speech. "I'm not attempting to regulate homelessness," Kahn said. "I'm not attempting to prohibit it, encourage it or anything. I'm regulating panhandling." Daytona Beach paid him $30,000 to ...

  • Past pandemics have reshaped society. Will coronavirus do the same?

    Past pandemics have reshaped society. Will coronavirus do the same?

    Jun 22, 2020 10:20 PM EDT

    ... the pandemic reinforced the status quo. Nancy Bristow: In the midst of the pandemic, people who were poor might suffer from cold and hunger and homelessness. People of color would find themselves excluded from the emergency hospitals that were produced. And yet, in the aftermath, there was no movement to ...

  • Judge approves housing for 7,000 Los Angeles homeless living near freeways

    Judge approves housing for 7,000 Los Angeles homeless living near freeways

    Jun 18, 2020 09:51 PM EDT

    ... a lawsuit filed in March by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, which accused officials in greater Los Angeles of failing to comprehensively address the homelessness crisis. In addition to the original category of homeless people living near freeways, the new agreement adds those 65 or older or who have ...