A ruthless effort to criminalize homelessness while attacking best practices like Housing First is gaining traction in state legislatures across the country. Several states have already enacted bills along these lines, including Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri. Other states like Arizona and Georgia managed to fend off bad legislation last year, but new proposals are being…
“A sweep has a cost that day and can have longer-term cost in terms of [eliminating] whatever stability the people living in the encampments were able to attain,” said one homelessness policy expert. READ MORE: Homeless encampment sweeps costly and of limited long-term effectiveness, according to federal research | Smart Cities Dive
With Eric Tars as its legal director, the National Homelessness Law Center (NHLC) has served as a kind of legal conscience for the nation, hyper focused on a mission of using the law to, according to its website, “transform fundamentally the landscape of homelessness and poverty in this country.” Founded in 1989, the nonprofit has…
A prescription more powerful than pills… Read what one doctor says is the most important prescription for ending homelessness: This doctor wants to prescribe a cure for homelessness : Planet Money : NPR
A thousand income-restricted housing units are coming to multiple corners of Idaho after the Idaho Legislature approved $50 million in federal relief funds last year: First batch of Idaho-funded housing projects awarded, set to build 1,000 units statewide (boisedev.com)