• Microsoft pledges $500M to tackle Seattle housing crisis

    Microsoft pledges $500M to tackle Seattle housing crisis

    Jan 17, 2019 10:15 PM EDT

    ... including the many dedicated people who provide the vital services on which we all rely." While $25 million will be used for grants to address homelessness, including money to provide legal help to those facing eviction, Microsoft isn't simply giving away the rest of the money. Instead, it will ...

  • For low-level offenders, this Boston court provides a second chance

    For low-level offenders, this Boston court provides a second chance

    Jan 16, 2019 11:10 PM EDT

    ... record. Matthew: It's kind of a roadblock to securing employment. Tina Martin: Like all the defendants in this courtroom, Matthew was homeless or facing homelessness. Defendants have to show they have tried to get their lives back together, everything from drug rehab to job training. Kathleen Coffey: You don ...

  • Through music, Vijay Gupta brings healing community to LA's Skid Row

    Through music, Vijay Gupta brings healing community to LA's Skid Row

    Jan 04, 2019 11:25 PM EDT

    ... group called LAPD, in this case, the Los Angeles Poverty Department. The 46-year-old Vossough is a longtime musician who fell into addiction and homelessness and has lived in Skid Row shelters and housing for four years. He's now back in school and back to taking lessons and ...

  • How upcoming state laws could make it to Washington next

    How upcoming state laws could make it to Washington next

    Jan 01, 2019 11:40 PM EDT

    ... huge crisis in a number of coastal states, big urban cores, places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York. Amna Nawaz: Yes. Reid Wilson:  Homelessness is on the rise. And so states are now typically getting into the housing market. California is trying to address its -- sort of where ...

  • In LA, poverty on Skid Row defies U.S.’s humane reputation

    In LA, poverty on Skid Row defies U.S.’s humane reputation

    Oct 28, 2018 10:29 PM EDT

    ... increase directed at funding the creation of homes for the chronically homeless. And while tents still line the streets of Skid Row, this year chronic homelessness has dropped 18 percent in LA County.WILLY VAN SEALS: When it rains, you must have something on this floor. SIMON OSTROVSKY: But for ...

  • Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, dies at 65

    Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, dies at 65

    Oct 15, 2018 10:35 PM EDT

    ... the operating system. The decision thrust Microsoft onto the throne of technology and the two Seattle-natives became billionaires. Both later dedicated themselves to philanthropy.Over the course several decades, Allen gave more than $2 billion to a wide range of interests, including ocean health, homelessness and advancing scientific research.

  • 5 important stories that aren’t about the midterms

    5 important stories that aren’t about the midterms

    Oct 15, 2018 09:43 PM EDT

    ... jail time or up to six months in a work program, the Associated Press reported. The latest measure builds on legislation from 2013 that made homelessness punishable by fines, BBC noted. [BBC] Why it matters: The United Nations strongly condemned the measure earlier this summer when it was first introduced ...

  • Los Angeles mayor Garcetti: Trump sows division, does 'racist things'

    Los Angeles mayor Garcetti: Trump sows division, does 'racist things'

    Aug 17, 2018 02:06 PM EDT

    ... word as alleged by fired White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. In the wide-ranging interview, the mayor touched on issues from the city's homelessness crisis to immigration. He did not join some other Democrats in calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement but said its mission ...

  • A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and 'so much pain to process'

    A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and 'so much pain to process'

    Aug 14, 2018 10:30 PM EDT

    ... was very delicate, very sensitive. She was very quiet, but yet very kind, very gentle. Jeffrey Brown: In 2012, Tess first became addicted to opioids, after a prescription for bronchitis-related pain. Over the next six years, her life would spin out of control, to heroin addiction, homelessness and prostitution.

  • Police arrest suspect in Oakland train station stabbing

    Police arrest suspect in Oakland train station stabbing

    Jul 24, 2018 05:06 PM EDT

    ... and some firecrackers were thrown but police broke it up and the two men were later released. Cowell has a reported history of drug use, homelessness and violence. He was released from state prison on May 6 after completing a two-year sentence for second-degree robbery, said Vicky Waters ...