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Topic: Homelessness

President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How poverty is fueling Trumpism

Chauncey DeVega
The Fox & Friends host said on-air that homeless people should get the lethal injection. After immediate and intense outrage, Kilmeade apologized for his remarks. (Noam Galai / Getty Images)

Kilmeade apologizes for "callous" remark

CK Smith
A homeless man sleeps on grass outside of the City Hall in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

SCOTUS ruling ends in homeless crackdown

Stephen Przybylinski - The Conversation
President Donald Trump returns to the White House from Scotland on July 29, 2025. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s cruel policies have a human cost

Chauncey DeVega
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A homeless man sleeps under an American Flag blanket on a park bench. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Trump, SCOTUS a threat to the homeless

Tatyana Tandanpolie
A vacant lot where the homeless have set up makeshift houses, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Brian Caissie / Getty Images)

Involuntary treatment harms unhoused

Emmanuelle Bernheim - The Conversation
Gavel coming down on the US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS decision will leave US in crisis

Rachelle A. Matthews
Drug users prepare cocaine before injecting, inside of a Safe Consumption van set up by Peter Krykant on September 25, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The drugs were never the point

Niko Vorobyov
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December 28, 2023: A plan to sweep the homeless encampment at Harbor View Park on Thursday was postponed due to wet weather. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

SCOTUS may soon make homelessness worse

Chesa Boudin, Brendan Cox, Miriam Aroni Krinsky
A Phoenix resident rests under shade while seeking protection from the sun and heat at the Human Services Campus during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 18, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change worsening homelessness

Matthew Rozsa
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (C) speaks to the media alongside other local and law enforcement officials outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, July 12, 2021. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Eric Adams is blame shifting

Bob Hennelly - Work-Bites
Volunteer organizing donations in boxes wearing protective gloves (Getty Images/Hispanolistic)

US cities criminalize feeding the hungry

Ashlie D. Stevens
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People attend a rally to protest the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was choked to death on the subway, May 5, 2023, in Washington Square Park, New York City, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The politics of disposability

Chauncey DeVega
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at The Unity Council on May 10, 2021 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Calif.'s new safety net for the homeless

Angela Hart - KFF Health News
Homeless people in an encampment along Willow St. in the Tenderloin district of downtown on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022 in San Francisco, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"No constitutional right to housing"

David Bacon - Truthout
A homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic ( Araya Diaz/Getty Images)

Disability program riddled with problems

Fred Clasen-Kelly - KFF Health News
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Gavin Newsom speaks at a Homekey site to announce the latest round of awards for homeless housing projects across the state on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Is a California homeless law "coercive"?

Troy Farah
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin speaks to supporters during an election-night event on June 07, 2022 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Media falls for GOP copaganda on crime

Amanda Marcotte
People tour the Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village in Highland Park. The now completed 6.8-acre site within Arroyo Seco Park is the largest tiny home village in the United States, providing 117 housing units and 224 non-congregate beds as transitional residences for people experiencing homelessness in the Highland Park community. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Tiny-homes as a solution to homelessness

Giles Bruce - KFF Health News
Del Seymour (Photo courtesy of Maria Judice)

A homeless veteran gets a second chance

Alison Owings
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Valarie Mckenzie pours fresh beans at Wildflyer Coffee. (Photo courtesy of Wildflyer Coffee)

Coffee shop gives the homeless a chance

Cinnamon Janzer - Civil Eats
A man rests in a wheel chair outside a comfort station on Massachusetts Ave, in an area known as Methadone Mile, in Boston, MA on September 09, 2020. The area known as Methadone Mile has deteriorated over the past few months. Services are closed, and the homeless and those suffering from addiction have crowded the area. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Attacking homelessness after COVID’s end

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
Homeless people gather on Willow Street in the Tenderloin on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

The RV park that's saving lives in SF

Nicole Karlis
Eviction Notice On Door (Getty Images)

Confronting the wave of homelessness

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
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