• Has policing in America gone too far?

    Has policing in America gone too far?

    May 26, 2018 08:01 PM EST

    ... social problems as things to be dealt with by police. We're not concerned about slave uprisings anymore. We're concerned about things like mass homelessness, black markets, around drugs and sex work. The management of untreated mental illness, violence and behavioral problems in schools. And so as the social ...

  • Giving vulnerable residents help before mental health issues land them in jail

    Giving vulnerable residents help before mental health issues land them in jail

    Apr 09, 2018 10:30 PM EST

    ... docket, they have just a complex array of problems. It's not just behavioral health, not just mental health and substance abuse issues, but also homelessness, a history of trauma, no family or social supports whatsoever, no job skills, no social skills. They will cuss at me in court. John ...

  • These 3D-printed homes could provide shelter to the world's most vulnerable people

    These 3D-printed homes could provide shelter to the world's most vulnerable people

    Mar 30, 2018 06:12 PM EST

    More than 1 billion people live in slums without adequate housing. A San Francisco-based nonprofit has set out to tackle global homelessness in a new way: by 3-D printing homes. The first of these homes was on display at South by Southwest this month in a backyard in ...

  • News Wrap: Florida sends new gun control bill to governor

    News Wrap: Florida sends new gun control bill to governor

    Mar 08, 2018 11:50 PM EST

    ... more broadly than the truth. Twitter funded the study. Still to come on the "NewsHour": the Trump economic adviser behind the steel and aluminum tariffs; from the "NewsHour" Bookshelf, America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan; a Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist sketches the faces of homelessness; and much more.

  • How a cartoonist is highlighting the lives of San Diego’s homeless residents

    How a cartoonist is highlighting the lives of San Diego’s homeless residents

    Mar 08, 2018 11:30 PM EST

    ... So what do you hope people get from the series that you did? Steve Breen: I hope that people try to resist the thinking that homelessness is caused by laziness or some flaw in character. But that's really not what drives homelessness. It's mental illness. It's alcoholism ...

  • Opinion: 1.3 million students are homeless. Here’s how we can help them

    Opinion: 1.3 million students are homeless. Here’s how we can help them

    Mar 06, 2018 03:24 PM EST

    ... students in Tukwila, Deer Park and Virginia, we can do it everywhere in the country. In every school district in America there are students experiencing homelessness, and they deserve an opportunity to succeed. That’s why America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness and ...

  • Displaced Puerto Ricans, now living in hotels, may soon lose housing

    Displaced Puerto Ricans, now living in hotels, may soon lose housing

    Feb 18, 2018 09:10 PM EST

    ... out a lot. IVETTE FELICIANO: In late December, the Rivera’s were among more than 40 families at the hotel that faced potential eviction and homelessness. FEMA’s transitional housing program was set to end by mid-January. But then FEMA extended the program through March 20th at the request ...

  • Indiana Medicaid work requirements fuel worries for the poor

    Indiana Medicaid work requirements fuel worries for the poor

    Feb 13, 2018 11:20 PM EST

    Advocates like Alan Witchey say, now that Indiana is adding a work requirement, bureaucratic mistakes become much more common, especially for vulnerable populations like the homeless. Alan Witchey: Even though we have been told there's an exemption for homelessness, we haven't heard, how is that going to work ...

  • Is relocating homeless people a life line or broken system?

    Is relocating homeless people a life line or broken system?

    Dec 23, 2017 10:44 PM EST

    ... you found that was most interesting? ALASTAIR GEE: Well we went into this knowing that cities say that these programs are a way of resolving homelessness and their official reports actually say that these bus programs are an 'exit from homelessness' and so we wanted to find out if that ...

  • How smoke from California’s fires is harming the most vulnerable

    How smoke from California’s fires is harming the most vulnerable

    Dec 09, 2017 05:45 PM EST

    Tens of thousands of homeless in Southern California are struggling to escape smoke as wildfires tear through the region.