• 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 ...

  • Read Trump's full executive order on policing

    Read Trump's full executive order on policing

    Jun 16, 2020 08:14 PM EDT

    (b) The Attorney General shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services as appropriate, identify and develop opportunities to train law enforcement officers with respect to encounters with individuals suffering from impaired mental health, homelessness, and addiction; to increase the capacity of social workers working directly ...

  • How Minneapolis is trying to reimagine the future of policing

    How Minneapolis is trying to reimagine the future of policing

    Jun 15, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    ... it to shift some of the $193 million annual police department budget to community-based programs. Councillors say they want to address underlying problems, like homelessness and other symptoms of poverty that drive crime and violence. Critics of the Council's move say they are alarmed by the lack of ...