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... every wall of the building all the way down to the foundations. This is their home. They don’t know where to go. And facing homelessness and unemployment, Victoria is also coping with the lasting trauma of the blast. Victoria Toumajean:Since that day, I have ...shaking hands The NGOs ...
... an essentially stagnant count is a not a bad sign, said Steve Berg, vice president for programs and policy at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. "Given what's going on with rental housing, it's not exactly good news but it means communities are pushing back against the headwinds ...
... concept that only the government can solve the problem," he said. But Mayor Eric Garcetti said that insufficient federal funding for affordable housing and anti-homelessness programs are part of the reason for the city's current crisis. "Los Angeles' homelessness crisis was not created in a vacuum, and it ...
... remarks. Williams is a co-policy chair at Advocates for Richmond Youth, a nonprofit that works to end youth homelessness in the Virginia city. Nationally, homelessness has been on the decline in recent years. According to government estimates, there were about 550,000 people who experienced homelessness on a single ...
Hawaii leads the nation in its rate of homelessness, which affects about 505 out of every 100,000 people there and is a major toll on its health care system. But just last month, the state announced a slight decrease in this ratio for the first time in eight years. NewsHour Weekend correspondent Megan Thompson reports...
... enrolled in school, get transportation back and forth to school, and then just kind of ensuring that their everyday needs are met. LISA STARK: Student homelessness is a widespread problem. Nearly one in four school districts in the U.S. gets federal grant money to help provide services for homeless ...
... that caught our eye that might be of interest to you, too. The organization Back on My Feet uses running as a catalyst to combat homelessness. The group operates in 12 cities across the nation, including Boston, where Cristina Quinn from PBS station WGBH paid them a visit. CRISTINA QUINN ...
Editor’s Note: The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is a whopping $3,590. With diminishing housing options and soaring rents, the city also has one of the higher homelessness rates in nation. Special correspondent Duarte Geraldino traveled to San Francisco, where he met housing ...
... becomes eminently solvable. MAYOR GARCETTI: I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better ...
Across the country, advocates say a growing number of cities have been criminalizing homelessness. According to a 2014 survey of 187 cities by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the number of cities with municipal bans on camping or sleeping outside has increased 50 percent since 2011. The ...
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