Nine months after the Los Angeles City Council unanimously adopted a comprehensive plan to end homelessness, the first progress report on the plan, released this week, offered a sobering picture of the long and difficult path ahead.
According to the public policy organization Demos: one in seven Americans will face homelessness at some time during their lives. In addition, 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day and will continue to do so for the next 15 years.
Homeless Americans face challenges in voting during the 2016 US elections, but many still exercise their right.
'Much like the greater Bay Area and California as a whole, Silicon Valley is a far more unequal place than it used to be.'
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Affordable housing has been tougher and tougher to come by in D.C. in recent years, and city officials have been taking steps to preserve and create new housing options for low-income residents. But even as those efforts are taking place, many housing advocates admit that they may be coming too late.
It's fascinating what a little coordination - and a lot of communication - can do in battling homelessness among veterans.
The number of homeless people in Los Angeles County jumped 12 percent in the past two years, to more than 44,000
For almost a decade now, Charles Gladden has been working from the same building where most of influential people of the country also serve from.
Gladden, 63, works as a janitor at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, where senators and lobbyists also do their daily share of work, taking important decisions and whose voice are always heard by people of America. But the 8 years that Gladden has worked there, his voice has gone unheard, until now.
Joan Cheever is a chef. She is the founder of a nonprofit food truck—Chow Train. For the past 10 years, Chef Cheever has served high-quality dishes to San Antonio's homeless. Some say Joan Cheever has a big heart.
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