homelessness

  1. JadeB

    Working people across the country are living in their cars

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/realestate/car-homeless-rent-debt-mortgage.html
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  2. B

    A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on.

    https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030 A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on. Lisa Steacy CTVNewsVancouver.ca Reporter Updated Aug. 30, 2023 10:54 p.m. EDT Published Aug. 29, 2023...
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  3. B

    More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless—at a Record Rate

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/homelessness-increasing-united-states-housing-costs-e1990ac7?st=e6hyfywynwcmugx&reflink=article_copyURL_share More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless—at a Record Rate High housing costs and evictions push more people from homes, advocates say By Jon Kamp Shannon...
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  4. B

    NYC's Widespread Homeless Sweeps Resulted in 3 People With Permanent Housing: Report

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5gjk/nycs-widespread-homeless-sweeps-resulted-in-3-people-with-permanent-housing-report A city audit reveals that sweeps encompassing over 2,000 people have largely failed to transition the unhoused into permanent housing. By Roshan Abraham June 29, 2023...
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  5. B

    A year after opening 600 rooms to L.A.’s unhoused, the Cecil Hotel is still mostly empty. Here’s why

    https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-13/cecil-hotel-homeless-housing-struggles Brent Fode and his dog TaterTot are now living at the Cecil Hotel. Even with solid funding and the best of intentions, the Cecil project to provide housing for homeless Angelenos has struggled to overcome...
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  6. B

    Baby boomers facing spike in homelessness: "As much as we try, we might be stuck"

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-boomers-homelessness/ BY JONATHAN VIGLIOTTI JULY 28, 2022 / 7:44 PM / CBS NEWS San Diego, California — Maria Negrete, her daughter and her granddaughter live in their car in San Diego after they lost their jobs and got evicted from their apartment. "It's...
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  7. B

    Colorado Has a Brilliant Plan To Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis: Just Sleep in Your Car

    https://survivingtomorrow.org/colorado-has-a-brilliant-plan-to-fix-the-affordable-housing-crisis-just-sleep-in-your-car-8e0070680eae Jared A. Brock Jun 28 · 6 min read Corporate-controlled governments will do anything except the right thing Friends, you’re going to laugh at today’s...
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  8. B

    Portland setting up villages for homeless with heat and electricity

    Portland setting up villages for homeless with heat and electricity “I know that Portlanders will welcome these villagers in their neighborhoods as we work to support unhoused residents as a community,” City Commissioner Dan Ryan said. By Jenna Romaine | Oct. 1, 2021 Portland setting up...
  9. Neuromancer

    Why are the large majority of homeless people male?

    I've been noticing this as the number of homeless people on the train rise. Anyone know why?
  10. BlackJesus

    San Francisco has the bummiest black people I've ever seen

    shyt is surreal walking downtown where I now work. You'd think there no black people with decent jobs and housing in this city. Homeless black people EVERYWHERE. Like 50% of the homeless. Easily. They got nikkas outcheah literally tap dancing and shining shoes for dollars. Nikkas on every...
  11. Razor Reader

    The best things you can do if you become homeless (ONE IMPORTANT THING ADDED!)...

    1 # Get a mailing address... The Salvation Army sometimes makes it possible for homeless people to receive mail. If that doesn't work quite possibly you might be able to find a shelter or even a business like a barber shop that's willing to let you get mail there even if you have to slide...
  12. The M.I.C.

    More Than 60% Of New Yorkers One Check Away From The Streets

    :dwillhuh: @The Grendel @Cave Savage @BoogieDown23 @Sagat @morris and the rest of my New York folk..What y'all seeing up there?
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