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The Mayor of Los Angeles Wants to Prove Homelessness Can Be Solved

GT - March 25, 2024 0

When Karen Bass took office as Los Angeles mayor with a mandate to tackle homelessness, Venice Beach was at the top of her...

NYC Schools Warn of Disaster as City Set to Evict Homeless Migrant Children

GT - December 27, 2023 0

Since last summer, tens of thousands of migrant families living in homeless shelters have enrolled children in New York City schools. Their arrival...

Phoenix Encampment Is Gone, but the City’s Homeless Crisis Persists

GT - November 5, 2023 0

The tents and campfires were gone. The sidewalks where people had built makeshift shelters from wood pallets and blue tarps were empty. On...

What Happens When New York’s Shelters Run Out of Room?

GT - August 3, 2023 0

The crowds outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan this week would have been familiar in any number of American cities struggling to...

Phoenix’s Month in Hell: 31 Days of Extreme Heat Tests the City

GT - July 31, 2023 0

Patients with heat stroke and burns from the asphalt are swamping hospitals. Air-conditioners are breaking down at homeless shelters. The medical examiner’s office...

‘A Daily Game of Russian Roulette’: Homeless in San Diego

GT - May 13, 2023 0

“I’m fine, but you must be freezing,” she said, as she draped a blanket over his shoulders. “It’s been raining for days.”He shrugged....

A Rising Tally of Lonely Deaths on the Streets

GT - April 18, 2022 0

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Their bodies were found on public benches, lying next to bike paths, crumpled under freeway overpasses and stranded on...

Housing Boss Earns $1 Million to Run Shelters Despite a Troubled Past

GT - October 3, 2021 0

Last year, the New York attorney general’s office opened a criminal investigation into Jenny Rivera, then the chief executive of another group, Aguila,...