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The Atlanta City Council has approved a new plan aimed at addressing the issue of individuals seeking shelter at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
Homelessness ranks fifth, moving up from past surveys and ahead of key issues such as race relations, crime, democracy, and healthcare. We can no longer afford to look away.
The National Park Service sweeps an encampment in Washington, DC. In response to the impact of homelessness in their communities, municipal governments in the United States regularly conduct sweeps of tent encampments, forcibly dispersing people from public or private land where they are camping without authorization.
The report showed there were more than 12,000 people homeless in Georgia in 2023 – a 15% increase from the year before. The report showed nearly half were living unsheltered.
HOPE Atlanta, the programs of Travelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta, is a non-profit organization that has served the metro-Atlanta area for 112 years. Since its inception in 1900, the organization has provided services to over one million people in need throughout the counties surrounding Atlanta, Georgia.
Southwest Atlanta is the area between I-75 and I-20 along with the neighborhoods west of Summerhill. West End is the fastest gentrifying in the Southwest, with both downtown and the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (Georgia's largest employer) putting pressure on this area.
I recently learned that there has been an upswing of homeless people sleeping outside in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. It was a discovery that outreach workers (who send data annually to the U.S ...