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The Interagency Council on the Homeless was authorized by Title II of the landmark Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act enacted on July 22, 1987 (PL 100-77). The McKinney Act established the Interagency Council on the Homeless as an "independent establishment" within the executive branch to review the effectiveness of federal activities and programs to assist people experiencing ...
Housing First is a policy that offers unconditional, permanent housing as quickly as possible to homeless people, and other supportive services afterward. It was first discussed in the 1990s, and in the following decades became government policy in certain locations within the Western world. [1]
The largest study in decades of California's homelessness crisis finds that older seniors priced out of housing are now a substantive share of those living on the streets.
Anti-homeless architecture is an urban design strategy that is intended to discourage loitering, camping, and sleeping in public. [32] While this policy does not explicitly target homeless people, it restricts the ways in which people can use public spaces, which affects the homeless population. [33] Anti-homeless spikes on a shop ledge.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has launched a new crackdown on people sleeping outside in a campaign to clear the sidewalks of homeless encampments that have come to define the city. “You can ...
A federal judge wants an independent accounting of homeless programs in Los Angeles — including Mayor Karen Bass' signature Inside Safe initiative. The city controller is also planning an audit.
Discrimination against homeless people is categorized as the act of treating people who lack housing in a prejudiced or negative manner because they are homeless. Other factors can compound discrimination against homeless people including discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, age, mental illness, and other considerations.
A housing crisis, housing shortage, or housing crunch is a widespread shortage of affordable housing in places where people want to live. Such shortages can contribute to homelessness and housing insecurity. Housing crises are difficult to address, because they are a complex "web of problems and dysfunctions" with many contributing factors. [1]