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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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