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UCLA report details state of student homelessness in California
A significant percentage of California college students are experiencing homelessness, a UCLA report found. The report, published in October, found that 20% of California Community College students and 5% of University of California students are experiencing homelessness.
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,...
How to make the homeless visible
A US video blogger believes that putting homeless people on camera and giving them a voice can help to solve their problems
Why Hospitals Are Housing the Homeless
Health systems are taking part in housing programs to improve their communities' health outcomes and costs.
How no-fault evictions are contributing to LA's homeless crisis
In many American cities, tenants can be asked to leave their homes for no reason at all
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.
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.
Why I Chose to Become a Homeless Entrepreneur
Getting rid of things -- like a home -- can be a deeply energizing experience, giving you a sense of control and ownership over the direction of your life
ANDERSON: How can you fix homelessness?
“Fixing” homelessness is not easy, especially when people are unwilling to do what it will take. Ordinances that are anti-friendly are not the answer, housing is the only answer.
How I went from middle class to homeless
CNNMoney profiles people who went from middle or lower middle class to homeless as they struggle to find permanent, full-time work.
An easy way you can help end local homelessness — Our View
Your support can help get area homeless off the street and into homes
8-Year-Old Says What It’s Really Like To Be Homeless, Shatters Stereotypes
Homelessness doesn’t always look like what you think it does.
When homelessness gets personal: What can one person do? (Column)
A range of possible reactions ran through my mind. Should I say something? Should I lean the seat back and hide? Should I make eye contact?
Why 'Survival Sex' Is the Only Option for Some Homeless LGBTQ Kids
Here's More Proof That Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn't Work
“Don’t criminalize our existence. Treat us like humans.”
3 Questions That Could Change The World from Kid President
It’s time for SOCKTOBER! Help us activate 2 million people to help their neighbors who are homeless as they prepare for winter! Find out more by watching and...
What Do The Homeless Search For?
What do those experiencing homelessness and poverty search for on a daily basis?
Why Do People Choose to Be Homeless?
It’s a lot easier on your conscience when you can walk past a homeless camp, see someone thin, dirty, and frail, and say, “Their choice.”
How to help the homeless in cold weather
