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The measure known as Proposition 1, which includes $6.38 billion for treatment and housing, was a top priority for Gov. Gavin Newsom to reduce homelessness in the state. A key [...]

Chicago voters will consider a ballot measure on Tuesday that progressive Democrats see as a solution to homelessness. The proposal would allow the City Council to increase real estate tax [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-February 5, 2024-: Encampment removal yields significant improvements (C)1994-2024 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:03022024 As a response to high-risk encampments, Alberta's government is providing targeted help to Edmonton's most vulnerable through [...]

Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council have been engaged in a weekslong dispute over how to expand a city housing voucher program. A dispute between Mayor Eric Adams and [...]

Byline: Michele Steeb, Texas Public Policy Foundation 'All In' - the Biden administration's new blueprint to reduce homelessness - is all wrong. Housing First, a policy experiment instituted by the [...]

Byline: Kyle Swenson SEATTLE - Handwritten notes were everywhere, taped into car windows or tucked under windshield wipers or scrawled across van doors. They were public announcements and cryptic rants [...]

Nearly everyone in California has an opinion about the homelessness crisis, but very few people have a realistic vision of what to do about it. In the Bay Area and [...]

The plan calls for stricter enforcement of transit system rules and more mental-health services and housing options for those being cleared from stations and trains. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. [...]

An exhibition highlights creative solutions by architects around the world to the problem of homelessness. From afar, the Star Apartments housing complex in Los Angeles could easily be mistaken for [...]

To ease an affordability crisis, the Legislature voted to open suburbs to development, allowing two-units on lots long reserved for single-family homes. California needs more housing. More condominiums, more townhouses [...]

A federal judge ruled that the city was transferring homeless people to group shelters without adequate consideration for their health. New York City's plan to move 8,000 homeless people out [...]

The mayor called for a ''right to housing'' law as the homelessness crisis intensifies in cities across California. SACRAMENTO -- The mayor of Sacramento on Wednesday announced a plan to [...]

Byline: Staff Abstract: Indigenous rights were acknowledged in Ecuador, and seaweed pods are introduced in marathons as a green alternative to single-use plastic bottles. Ecuador Indigenous land rights are being [...]

Byline: Jared Bernstein Let's talk about this 'head tax' on large businesses - those with gross revenue above $20 million - that the Seattle City Council unanimously passed this week [...]

Byline: Jessica Mendoza Homelessness has without a doubt become one of California's most pressing issues, proclaimed by turns an emergency, a crisis, and a national disgrace. Consider: As of December, [...]

For years, New York City has placed thousands of homeless families into so-called cluster or scatter-site housing, using private apartments, usually in run-down buildings, as an expensive way to help [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio put it bluntly on Tuesday, saying he could not see an immediate end to New York City's homelessness crisis and that a ''blood-and-guts war strategy'' was [...]

Los Angeles has committed to spending $3 billion over the next five years to provide housing for up to 16,000 of the city's estimated 41,000 unhoused residents. Beds would be [...]

Facing a continued surge in the homeless population, New York City officials are aggressively expanding the costly and highly criticized practice of using hotels to plug gaps in the city's [...]