Sep 09 South Carolina city council reconsiders its policy on the homeless Video still by PBS NewsHour Check out the excellent coverage by the reporters on the ground @yesevamoore of @FreeTimesSC. Hari Sreenivasan reported how various cities from Bogota, Columbia to Columbia, S.C. are responding to homelessness. Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch The Connection: Combating Homelessness From Bogota, Columbia to Columbia, S.C., Hari Sreenivasan reports on the drastically different ways communities are responding to homelessness within their borders. Continue watching
Oct 31 Forgotten Voters: D.C. Volunteers Work to Register the Homeless George Washington University graduate students help Nathaniel Hipps, left, register to vote at D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library as part of a larger registration effort led by the National Coalition for the Homeless. Photo by Emily Wilkins/Scripps Howard Foundation Wire. Continue reading
Aug 26 InvisiblePeople.tv Aims to Empower Homeless Through Social Media If you were looking to find a homeless person, Facebook would be a good place to start, according to Mark Horvath. "One hundred percent of the sheltered homeless that I've run into are using Facebook," he said. Horvath used… Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Increase in Homeless Pupils Poses Unique Challenge to Public Schools Special correspondent Lee Hochberg reports from Seattle on the rising homelessness for school-age children and the challenges that faces public schools trying to accommodate them. Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch Housing Problems Persist Two Years After Katrina Two years after Hurricane Katrina's battered New Orleans, the city still faces lingering housing problems, particularly in low- and middle-income neighborhoods that were abandoned. Correspondent Tom Bearden begins a three-part series on the Gulf Coast's recovery. Continue watching