• California governor says 60,000 homeless could be infected by novel coronavirus

    California governor says 60,000 homeless could be infected by novel coronavirus

    Mar 19, 2020 05:34 PM EDT

    ... million on efforts to shield that population from the virus. “I hope you get a sense of the seriousness we're taking the issue of homelessness,” Newsom said in a Facebook Live broadcast. Two-thirds of the money will go directly to local governments to spend on homeless services and ...

  • How health care inequity could make the COVID-19 crisis worse

    How health care inequity could make the COVID-19 crisis worse

    Mar 13, 2020 08:38 PM EDT

    ... uninsured, and 91 percent are low-income. Those patients may also suffer from housing insecurity — about 1.4 million people in the United States experience homelessness each year — or chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes or obesity. Such conditions can compromise the immune system, leaving patients at greater risk of catching ...

  • How lack of paid sick leave is complicating U.S. virus response

    How lack of paid sick leave is complicating U.S. virus response

    Mar 06, 2020 11:45 PM EDT

    ... they're only one economic disruption away, like not being able to show up for work, from an economic disruption. That could lead into eviction, homelessness, foreclosure, bankruptcy. So the system is currently not set up to enable a low-wage worker to have the ability to show up to ...

  • How the Dallas Street Choir grants homeless residents a voice

    How the Dallas Street Choir grants homeless residents a voice

    Feb 28, 2020 11:25 PM EDT

    ... Chief development officer Nick Colletti is proud of the work done here. It's received national attention. But he also notes the paradox of rising homelessness, 9 percent jumps each of the past two years, in a city with a booming economy. Nick Colletti: We do have a shortage of ...

  • Can California figure out a way to house its growing homeless population?

    Can California figure out a way to house its growing homeless population?

    Feb 20, 2020 11:35 PM EDT

    ... And, interestingly, a poll that just came out showed that almost 40 percent of Californians fear that they or someone they know could fall into homelessness. So, it's a real fear here that the economic inequality, the rising housing prices, the systemic racism that we're addressing throughout the ...

  • News Wrap: Thousands of Palestinians protest Trump’s Middle East peace plan

    News Wrap: Thousands of Palestinians protest Trump’s Middle East peace plan

    Feb 11, 2020 11:50 PM EDT

    ... the ban last night in a bid to help low- and moderate-income tenants. Seattle has some of the nation's highest rents and widespread homelessness. The bill faces a possible veto by the mayor, plus a likely court challenge. And Wall Street had a relatively quiet day. The Dow ...

  • Irish voters frustrated by economy choose next leader

    Irish voters frustrated by economy choose next leader

    Feb 08, 2020 05:03 PM EDT

    ... and since 2016 as the leader of a minority administration with the tacit support of Fianna Fail. The current campaign was dominated by domestic problems, especially a growing homelessness crisis, house prices that have risen faster than incomes and a public health system that hasn’t kept up with demand.

  • The hidden health costs of eviction

    The hidden health costs of eviction

    Jan 13, 2020 11:30 PM EDT

    ... families in five cities. Megan Sandel: We found that those families that were homeless and the families that were behind on rent had very similar adverse health outcomes, which signaled to us that homelessness is bad, but behind on rent is just as bad for kids' health and their parents.

  • This teen CEO is empowering young volunteers to give back

    This teen CEO is empowering young volunteers to give back

    Dec 25, 2019 07:38 PM EDT

    ... relief. In 2017, Kids4Community made care packages for survivors of the Puebla earthquake in Mexico and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. Another key focus is homelessness -- an issue that has taken on particular significance for the group’s young founder. A few years ago, as he remembers it, Pala was ...

  • From tech to society, how we've changed in a decade

    From tech to society, how we've changed in a decade

    Dec 24, 2019 09:19 PM EDT

    Gentrification and a shortage of affordable housing has fueled displacement in cities from Washington, D.C., to Portland, and homelessness rose for three years in a row, with states such as California and Idaho struggling to accommodate those affected by the crisis. We saw the human toll and politicization of ...