Homelessness in the United States reached a record high in 2023. On any given night, more than 650,000 people experience homelessness. People living homeless have higher rates of untreated mental illnesses and substance use disorders than the general population. That can make it difficult to find a permanent place to live. This program takes you to the streets of New York City to hear directly from people who have lived homeless about what they needed most. You’ll also hear from experts who say...
(The Center Square) – With hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority is facing calls for accountability from city officials who look to the semi-governmental organization to get the area's chronic homelessness crisis under control. A senior KCRHA policy director says their efforts are working. KCRHA has served as the organization responsible for coordinating funding and services for unhoused people across all of King County since...
MARYLAND. – In recent years, mental health has shifted from a taboo topic, to one that is more widely discussed. But even as society advances in the right direction towards shattering the stigma, Dr. Michael Finegan, Clinical Psychologist with Peninsula Mental Health Services, said some populations still go under the radar. “Many of those individuals that are on the streets
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Officials plan to move homeless residents from a site near Lake Merritt to one by Jack London Square.
Mayor London Breed announced a record-low in homeless encampments. The city reported an average of 373 tents between the two counts in 2024. Breed attributed the decrease due to anti-camping law enforcement
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GEORGETOWN, Del. – Since its opening in January 2023, the Springboard Village in Georgetown has seen more than 120 people experiencing homelessness pass through its program. The location has 40 individual units, but what they’re trying to accomplish goes farther than just a roof over someone’s head. “We haven’t eradicated homelessness, but we’ve made a huge impact on it. We’ve
The estimated number of people experiencing homelessness in America surged to about 653,000 in 2023, the highest level on record since reporting began in 2007.That’s according to the latest release of the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The report found that on a single night in January of 2023, at least 653,104 people were experiencing homelessness in the U.S., a more than 12% increase from 2020.The “point-in-time”...
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Oxford University’s Dr Erin Saupe and PhD candidate Cooper Malanoski examined the fossil record to determine the traits most linked to species extinction during times of climate change. : Which animals are most at risk from the climate crisis?
A Deep Dive Into The Opioid Crisis Authored by Matt Bivens, M.D. via Racket News, Editor’s note: the following is the first essay in a series, written by former Moscow Times co-worker and current E.R. doctor Matt Bivens. The remaining features will be published serially on his Substack site, The 100 Days. None of the articles in the series will be paywalled. In a normal presidential election year, the opiate addiction crisis would be a front-and-center domestic issue, but for a...