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Hostile Architecture: A Look into the Horrifying Anti-Homeless Trend
When you sit on a city bench, you might notice the bars, spikes, and slants built into the furniture. These are examples of hostile architecture.
What It's Like to Be Homeless for the First Time In Your Life
Homelessness can have a dramatic impact, especially if you've never experienced it before.
Understanding Homelessness: What It Is and Isn’t
Homelessness happens when people do not have safe and secure places to live. While this definition may sound quite simple, the causes of homelessness are often complicated and varied. For example, some causes include a house fire, economic strife, the loss of a job, a medical emergency, rising rents, a death in the family, addiction,...
5 Classic Holiday Foods With Anti-Aging Benefits
One Time A Guy Gave A Homeless Man A Computer, And The Recipient Did Exactly What The Giver Expected
If I'd have heard about what this guy was planning to do before it all played out, I might have thought he was unrealistic or maybe even condescending. But...
Why 'Housing First' Saves Homeless Lives and Public Money
As overall homelessness surges, chronic homelessness is declining. A reason, some say, is a 'Housing First' approach that moves homeless from the street directly into their own homes
Why 'Survival Sex' Is the Only Option for Some Homeless LGBTQ Kids
No one should have to choose between staying with an abusive partner or becoming homeless
When you work in the domestic-violence field, you hear this all the time: “Why doesn’t she just leave?” Given the reality of housing options available, this is a ridiculous question.
What Keeps Homeless Children Out of Class?
Children facing homelessness have the odds stacked against them. Playtime works to support children's school engagement so that they can succeed in life.
Should anti-tattoo discrimination be illegal?
Tattoos are more popular than ever, but workers can lose or be denied jobs because of them. Should employment law be changed to protect them?
Why Your Anti-Aging Products Might Actually Be Aging You
Groomer Shaves Homeless Dog. What She Found Underneath All That Hair Made My Eyes Tear Up.
Homeless kids learn that money talks
Mastering money might seem like the last thing a young adult who's been homeless through most of his teens needs to survive. But without an understanding of finances, such kids will be sucked right back down the hole.
Why Hospitals Are Housing the Homeless
Health systems are taking part in housing programs to improve their communities' health outcomes and costs.
Colleges find innovative partnerships with housing authorities to combat student homelessness
Some community colleges have found innovative partnerships with their public housing authorities may help combat student homelessness.
What If the Key to Ending Homelessness Is Just That—a Key?
The radically ambitious strategy known as Housing First has been successful on a small scale; now it faces its toughest test.
Chronic homelessness and the Housing First program: Research review of how programs have worked
A roundup of studies on the Housing First program and its impact on chronic homelessness among those with mental illnesses and/or substance abuse problems.
