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A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on.
A new B.C.-based study undercuts the persistent stereotype that homeless people can't be trusted with cash, according to the lead researcher who says it also highlights a different way to respond to the crisis.
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Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits
Researchers find homeless people more likely to spend lump sum on housing and food and not ‘temptation goods’ such as alcohol
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Tiny home villages for homeless veterans are popping up around the country. Congress wants to send up to $100 million to fund more.
A bill introduced in the US House of Representatives in May is the first of its kind to tap tiny homes as a solution to veterans' homelessness.
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Newsom says the state is on track to cut unsheltered homelessness by 15%
After criticizing all local homelessness plans last year, Newsom announced during his State of the State tour that locals have agreed to reduce unsheltered homelessness by 15% in two years.
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Can a universal basic income help address homelessness?
Homelessness is an increasing problem across the developed world, and existing policy responses are failing to make an impact. In Australia, for instance, homelessness has increased despite growing investment in (predominantly crisis-oriented) specialist homelessness services.
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A village for Salt Lakers experiencing homelessness is designed for self-sufficiency
Salt Lake City's city council voted in favor of a project to build a small community known as the Other Side Village for people experiencing chronic homelessness.
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The Town That Came Up With a Jaw-Dropping Solution to Banish Its Homeless People
Not everyone wants to talk about it.
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
Using accessible statistics, the researchers test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain why, for example, rates are so much higher in Seattle than in Chicago. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a more convincing explanation.
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How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
One steamy morning last July, Ana Rausch commandeered a shady corner of a parking lot on the northwest side of Houston. Downing a jumbo iced coffee, she issued brisk orders to a dozen outreach workers toting iPads. Her attention was fixed on a highway underpass nearby, where a handful of people were living in tents and cardboard lean-tos. As a vice president of Houston’s Coalition for the Homeless, Ms. Rausch was there to move them out.
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How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
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Suspect in Homeless Shootings Arrested in Washington, Police Say
At least five homeless men sleeping outdoors in Washington and New York were attacked this month, the police said. Two of them died.
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Homeless deaths: 'Nap pads' could save hundreds of lives
On a small strip of land tucked away in a corner of York sits a dark grey metal structure about the size of a shipping container. Two security cameras are trained on four numbered doors running across the front. Each secured by a keypad, the doors open into small, modest rooms equipped with a single bed, a toilet and a sink.
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90-year-old Florida man arrested for second time in a week after feeding the homeless again
When 90-year-old Florida resident Arnold Abbott said following his arrest on Sunday that police couldn't stop him from feeding the homeless, he apparently meant it. Abbott was charged again on Wednesday night for violating a new city law in Ft. Lauderdale that essentially prevents people from feeding the homeless.
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Finland Is Successfully Fighting Homelessness, Which Is Now Reduced To 0.08% By Giving Homes For Those Who Need It
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness in the decrease and only less than 0.01 percent of the population doesn't have homes. The country's government's aim is to completely end homelessness by 2027.
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City of Los Angeles accused of moving the homeless in order to prepare for the Oscars
For the first time in its history, the 93rd Academy Awards is being held at Union Station, an area plagued by homelessness. But there are reports the city is forcing the homeless to move out of sight for the event.
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Elk Grove Paying Homeless People To Clean Up After Themselves, And It's Working
One of the most common complaints about homeless camps is all the trash that is left behind. The city of Elk Grove has developed a unique way to get the homeless to clean up after themselves. It’s an unusual idea: a city paying homeless people to keep their camps clean.
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Homeless man becomes first person to live in 3D-printed house — see inside
“I hope I stay here until my last dying days.” Those are the words of Tim Shea, who has come a long way since his days as a homeless man once struggling with heroin addiction. He is now the first person ever to live in a 3-D-printed house, according to the home’s maker. On the outskirts of Austin, Texas, 70-year-old Shea has settled into his 400-square-foot home constructed by 3-D printing. His new home is situated in the Community First! Village site, which is comprised of houses for the chronically homeless.
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Did James Plymell need to die?
Acouple of stray dogs were running loose in the parking lot of the Linn County fairgrounds just after 8 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2019, and Gerry Morris, a community service officer (CSO) with the Albany Police Department in Oregon, was on his way to help round them up. Morris turned onto a street that snakes past the blank-looking backs of stores and homes wedged next to railroad tracks. He noticed a beat-up silver Nissan Sentra stranded in the bike lane, partially blocking the road.
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How some people can end up living at airports for months – even years – at a time
In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O'Hare International Airport. Since October, he had been staying in the secure side of the airport, relying on the kindness of strangers to buy him food, sleeping in the terminals and using the many bathroom facilities. It wasn’t until an airport employee asked to see his ID that the jig was up.
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If We Want To End Homelessness, We Need To End Social Darwinism
Homelessness has become a social disaster on a scale unseen since the Great Depression. It’s a structural crisis that’s escalated to a degree that, despite the best efforts of status-quo neoliberalism to hand-wave it away, can no longer be denied – and neither can its causes.
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