Housing

The White House announced today that it would end homelessness by 2020, mostly by increasing funding for more affordable and supportive housing. It would also couple employment and health-care help with the effort. It’s one of those things that sounds laudable, but Jonathan Daniel Harris at the Huffington Post is right to take an “I’ll […]

Follow-up is one of the peskier problems in journalism; so often we write a story about a social or political trend when the news is either very good or very bad, and by the time things stabilize and a more comprehensive picture is available of what’s really going on, we’ve moved on to 12 other […]

If you’re like me, you scratched your head upon reading the news that a new HUD report shows homelessness in the United States decreased by 30 percent between 2005 and 2007. The Bush administration is chalking the improvement up to Housing First, an innovative homelessness-fighting strategy adopted from the U.K., where it was called the […]

HOMELESS VETS. Congress is already worried about veterans returning from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan who simply don’t readjust well, but obviously the situation can be more dire than just that. The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee held a hearing last week to discuss how to prevent homelessness among veterans and the related problem of budget […]