An ambitious pilot program provides a myriad of resources to help participants achieve financial independence through stable employment.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – There has been community debate on how the city should approach unhoused individuals living in public spaces. Some residents worry about safety issues and have called on the city to address people sleeping on the street. Others say the city overstepped its bounds in removing the belongings of unhoused people. The debate []
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – City of Albuquerque crews spent the morning clearing out a large homeless in southeast Albuquerque. Officials estimate around 75 people were camping illegally on a vacant property at Utah and Chico off Central Ave. The city said it the camp had grown over the last few weeks but neighbors told KRQE News 13 []
I’ve been homeless. Twice. I faced a dilemma in those situations that more than 650,000 Americans experience on any given day: “Where am I going to sleep tonight?” The legal battles over criminalizing homelessness seem completely disconnected from that reality. It’s a feeling I will never forget. In 2013, after my $2,500-a-month lease expired, I was looking for a home in Santa Monica. The previous lease was not affordable; I needed something more in a single dad’s budget. And I needed space for...
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If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...
In a tense hearing, the justices weighed whether sleeping outdoors could be criminally punished.