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According to the annual point-in-time survey, there are almost 71, 000 more people experiencing homelessness this year compared to last—an increase of 12 %—totaling around 653, 000 people.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered state agencies Thursday to start removing homeless encampments on state land in his boldest action yet following a Supreme Court ...
In response to the ensuing homelessness crisis of the 1980s and after many years of advocacy and numerous revisions, President Reagan signed into law the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 1987. This remains the only piece of federal legislation that allocates funding to the direct service of homeless people.
Most are in the West, where a long-running homelessness crisis was spurred by high housing costs and has deepened during the coronavirus pandemic, which upended the nation four years ago. There ...
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]
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.
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.
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 ...