Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Homelessness

When Highway Overpasses Become Housing

By Kea Wilson | Jul 1, 2020 | No Comments

The evection of unhoused people underneath a highway overpass in St. Louis race is serious questions, not only about city policy, but about a national trend of criminalizing people without homes.

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What Will Happen When Evictions Start Again?

By Melanie Curry | Jun 5, 2020 | No Comments

New UCLA Luskin Center report warns of a dire future in L.A., if big changes aren't made now - but the lesson is relevant statewide. Nationwide.

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How to Bring Hand-Washing Stations to the Unhoused

By Melanie Curry | May 15, 2020 | No Comments

LavaMaeX's Hand Washing For All campaign aims to teach people how to make, maintain hand-washing stations to help stop spread of coronavirus

Miguel R. has been homeless for just over three weeks in the University Park area. Sahra Sulaiman/StreetsblogLA

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What It's Like to Live on the Street During COVID-19

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 28, 2020 | No Comments

A true eviction moratorium might have kept Miguel housed and stable; now he fears for his mental health and his ability to get back on his feet

N. Mill Avenue in Tempe is one of America's dangerous speedway strips. Photo: Google

Report: Uber’s Software Flaws Led to Fatal Crash

By Aaron Short | Nov 7, 2019 | No Comments

The self-driving Uber car that killed an Arizona woman in March 2018 was not programmed to identify pedestrians outside of a crosswalk and lacked software that could have spared her life, a federal safety agency said.