{"id":11058,"date":"2023-12-26T16:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T23:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelesscoalitionboise.com\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2024-01-04T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:10:54","slug":"the-best-ways-to-help-homeless-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelesscoalitionboise.com\/the-best-ways-to-help-homeless-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The best ways to help homeless people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yLQPAc\">I\u2019ve been covering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America\u2019s homeless crisis at Vox<\/a>\u00a0all year. Last month, a reader reached out to ask what practical step they could take to help the people they see sleeping on the streets, besides giving time to food drives and occasionally handing out a drink on their walk from the store. \u201cI often feel helpless to enact change,\u201d the reader said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"J5pEqj\">I had some ideas but decided this was an important question to answer thoroughly, including challenging my initial assumptions about what would be most helpful. So I reached out to leading national and local experts on homelessness to get their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/12\/25\/24010207\/homeless-shelter-winter-housing-volunteer-donation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been covering\u00a0America\u2019s homeless crisis at Vox\u00a0all year. Last month, a reader reached out to ask what practical step they could take to help the people they see sleeping on the streets, besides giving time to food drives and occasionally handing out a drink on their walk from the store. \u201cI often feel helpless to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The best ways to help homeless people - Boise Homeless Coalition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homelesscoalitionboise.com\/the-best-ways-to-help-homeless-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The best ways to help homeless people - Boise Homeless Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u2019ve been covering\u00a0America\u2019s homeless crisis at Vox\u00a0all year. 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