Category: Homelessness

When is enough enough?   American homelessness is a needless and tragic and cruel humanitarian disaster.   Second homeless person dies in the cold in Kansas City A deceased person was found in a vacant building Sunday Night, two days after a man was found dead in a wooded area in Kansas City.

Massachusetts shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives BOSTON — As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are concerned about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to the pandemic, and many are anticipating having to turn people away as outside conditions worsen.

The stock market is ending 2020 at record highs, even as the virus surges and millions go hungry By Hamza Shaban and Heather Long https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/31/stock-market-record-2020/ “The recovery has been incredibly lopsided. High-income workers have been back to full employment for six months, but the recovery has stalled for low-income workers and we’re still missing millions…

Ardmore, Oklahoma population is 24,795. The racial makeup of the city is 73.02% White, 11.27% African American, 8.78% Native American. About 13.6% of families and 18.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.9% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over. There about approximately 3000 students in…

Shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives Estimates of the size of the state’s homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though in previous years Boston has been able to accommodate almost its entire homeless population, organizations are…

Given the state and structure of the United States of America, Safe Open Spaces, aka sanctioned tent villages, are inevitable and absolutely critically needed NOW. Denver’s first legal homeless encampments only a first step, experts say Certainly, the need is there for the encampments, also called safe open spaces, they say.

We MUST fight along side our homeless brothers and sisters for their fundamental right to live in their own country. Thank you Santa Cruz for standing strong. Santa Cruz activists halt homeless camp eviction – Santa Cruz Sentinel The more than 75 activists and homeless individuals gathered along the park’s Dakota Avenue entrance facing off…

My wife loves when my actions take the moral high ground. That’s why she supported our homeless tent village. And that why she supported me spending Christmas Eve night sleeping outside in solidarity with homeless pregnant women. That’s exactly what Mary was, after all. Many of my current rants are vindictive and sometimes down right…

Homeless Encampments – The Shift #RIGHT2HOUSING The Shift has developed several resources to help ensure the rights of encampment residents are upheld. Download them and use them in your community!

Attorneys decry ‘cleanups’ of homeless encampments during pandemic in LA – Lookout Local Santa Cruz “There is simply no public health justification for continuing the displacement of unhoused residents at this time,” write Catherine Sweetser of Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes LLP, along with Pui-Yee Yu and Shayla Myers of the Legal Aid Foundation…

  St. Paul clears out homeless camp in Kellogg Mall Park; 7 more to be vacated | Duluth News Tribune “We only care (about housing the homeless) when we see it visually,” said St. Paul resident Joe James, disgustedly. “We only care because we see people out here and we want to remove the visual…

I am planning a peaceful protest on Christmas Eve night. I will be building a makeshift shelter in rememberance that thousands of years ago a man and woman, who was very late in her pregnancy, were traveling (apparently to pay taxes). As the story goes, there was no room at the inn. So they slept…

‘This is heart-wrenching’: Salem homeless camps washed away by flooding | kgw.com “This is the first time I’ve been homeless like this and it’s really been an emotional drain for me. It’s heartbreaking to see how there’s no rescue. The only stuff that we have is priceless to us and we’re losing all of that…

This is going to be a brutal winter for homeless people all over the world. Mass evictions plus less shelter space due to social distancing = More Dead Homeless People. Portland sees dramatic rise in deaths of homeless people – Portland Press Herald More than 60 homeless people died in Portland in 2020, a dramatic…