• How the housing markets in 5 U.S. cities may have cost you $5,000 in lost wages

    How the housing markets in 5 U.S. cities may have cost you $5,000 in lost wages

    Jun 23, 2016 09:18 PM EST

    ... the average American worker in all the American territories if five American cities were to loosen their housing policies? READ MORE: The housing shortage and homelessness in San Francisco. Is there a solution? Enrico Moretti:  Yes, if these five American cities were to lower the level of land use regulation ...

  • The San Francisco activists who say please build in my backyard

    The San Francisco activists who say please build in my backyard

    Jun 02, 2016 11:16 PM EST

    ... YIMBY is supporting Gary McCoy's run for a seat on the Democratic Council Central Committee. McCoy believes YIMBY's pro- growth strategy could reduce homelessness. GARY MCCOY: I was homeless for somewhere around three or four years. The hardest thing for me still is very rainy days, rainy, wet ...

  • Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special

    Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special

    Jun 02, 2016 01:39 AM EST

    ... if somebody's put on a uniform of this country and fought for our freedom, they cannot be homeless, and our goal should be zero homelessness, zero tolerance for homelessness.  And we have cut veterans homelessness since I've been in office by about a third.  Tens of thousands of ...

  • Why activists are fighting over feral felines

    Why activists are fighting over feral felines

    Jan 22, 2016 11:07 PM EST

    ... it's one that I put to PetSmart Charities. And the response that I got is that the founders of the company want to end homelessness -- cat homelessness. They want to end the euthanasia of cats in shelters. And they believe that this is the best approach. When you look ...

  • VA chief to Congress: You can't fire your way to excellence

    VA chief to Congress: You can't fire your way to excellence

    Jan 21, 2016 10:54 PM EST

    ... to health care, making it easier for veterans to navigate the complicated VA website, reducing chronic backlogs in disability claims and continuing to reduce veteran homelessness. McDonald praised passage of a 2014 law intended to make it easier for veterans to receive private care, noting that VA authorized 12 million ...

  • This Seattle choir aims to help members recover from trauma

    This Seattle choir aims to help members recover from trauma

    Jan 12, 2016 09:13 PM EST

    ... Art Singers is a choir group supported by the organization Path with Art, a Seattle-based nonprofit with a mission to connect people recovering from homelessness, addiction and other trauma to arts programming. It is an effort to harness creative engagement as a means towards community and stability. For Andrea ...

  • People in recovery find the recipe for a fresh start in cooking career training

    People in recovery find the recipe for a fresh start in cooking career training

    Dec 19, 2015 01:33 AM EST

    ... mission. MIKE CURTIN: And while we're doing that, we're training men and women who are coming out of incarceration, battling addiction, surviving abuse, homelessness and unemployment for jobs in this hospitality business. We're trying to bring these two things together in a way that's going to ...

  • Humans of New York gives U.S.-bound refugees a voice

    Humans of New York gives U.S.-bound refugees a voice

    Dec 17, 2015 01:20 AM EST

    Brandon Stanton stops random people on the street, takes their photo and learns what about their personal stories makes them unique. He's the photographer behind Humans of New York, a blog and social media feeds seen by millions. Lately Stanton has traveled to Turkey and Jordan to visit refugees and share their accounts with his...

  • Debate over how to treat the homeless simmers in Sarasota, as more cities crack down

    Debate over how to treat the homeless simmers in Sarasota, as more cities crack down

    Dec 13, 2015 09:45 PM EST

    Like many cities with temperate climates, Sarasota, Florida, is struggling with a growing homeless population. A lawsuit against the city argues that the issuance of citations for sleeping outside while there's a lack of resources available has criminalized homelessness. Meanwhile the City of Sarasota says it’s working hard to help homeless residents. Special Correspondent Karla...

  • Why stress may be fueling the childhood asthma epidemic

    Why stress may be fueling the childhood asthma epidemic

    Dec 09, 2015 05:01 AM EST

    In a study done exclusively for The Detroit News and PBS NewsHour, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found about 2 of every 3 children in Detroit face “adverse childhood experiences,” such as household substance abuse, exposure to violence and extreme economic hardship that can trigger asthma.