California’s high housing costs and Louisiana’s entrenched hardships continue to leave millions struggling.
City and county programs now offer $500 monthly to vulnerable tenants plus support services, but only 740 are served — far below the 1,425 goal. More funding is needed to avert displacement.
Cities and states scrambled to house homeless people in hotels and motels during the emergency phase of the pandemic. Many communities still find it’s a good model.
More than 300 residents are being relocated because of public safety concerns and plans to restore Columbus Park for recreation.
Forty-one percent of unsheltered seniors were never homeless before age 50. Finding them all homes will be difficult but helps focus outreach efforts.
Hoping to spur more progress toward his 35,000 starter home goal, Gov. Spencer Cox unveiled a dashboard that highlights where affordable homes are — and aren’t — being built.
The mayor declared a city emergency on homelessness, granting herself certain powers to address the crisis. Now, some members of the City Council want to reassert their authority and end the emergency declaration.
In Los Angeles, as in other parts of the state, the city and county are failing to cooperate in effective ways.
We should bring housing, drug treatment and research together under one roof to meet affected people where they are.
The “No Buddy Left Behind” program employs veterans to find and then help house homeless veterans.
The city’s total homeless population is declining, but the number of homeless children has reached record highs. The number of homeless schoolchildren has doubled in the last five years.
Over the years, Los Angeles voters have approved billions in homeless funding — and created layer upon layer of independent institutions.
Devastated by fire, then shut down by COVID-19, the school district in Paradise, Calif., has emerged as a leader in keeping homeless students in classrooms.
The administration is shifting resources away from Housing First, the long-established approach of getting individuals into supportive housing as the first priority.
HUD has warned local housing authorities that a $5 billion fund for emergency rental assistance is nearly out of cash, putting 60,000 households at risk of eviction.
Over the last decade, Wisconsin's largest county has made dramatic progress in reducing its homeless population.
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