This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Continuing my series on giving back to those in need, I’ll be focusing on the crippling epidemic of homelessness. This tragic circumstance affects millions around the world, including a staggering…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This paper was published to inform the round table talks on ‘the importance of housing, land and property (HLP) rights in humanitarian response’ held in Geneva. The NRC and IFRC…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are living in extraordinary times. In our region, we are seeing unprecedented economic growth, innovation and technological advances. Despite all of this progress, striking inequities impact the health, housing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In King County, Washington, the most recent point-in-time count showed nearly 1,500 young people (under the age of 25) currently experiencing homelessness. Of those 1,500 young people, 221 were under…
The America’s Promise Alliance, founded by Colin and Alma Powell, marked its 20th anniversary with the Recommit to Kids Summit in New York. At the summit, Raikes Foundation co-founder Tricia…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. His two feet pulsating in pain from series infections that had set in, Jim, a Vietnam veteran, resorted to living in the trees of a Kirkland area greenbelt. It hurt…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Twenty years ago, even as manufacturing jobs moved offshore, young people could still gain a foothold in the workforce through neighborhood stores and restaurants. Over the past decade, youth could…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Facts: 84 percent of those prostituted report current or past homelessness 50,000 people are prostituted2 in the city of Chicago at any given time, almost all of whom are homeless.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Rural Housing Service (RHS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an unnecessary artifact—part of the post–New Deal vision of federal government housing policy. At the RHS’s inception…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is the classic Venn diagram: not everybody who is homeless is a beggar, and not everybody who is a beggar is homeless. Rough sleeping is different again: rough sleepers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mariuma Ben Yosef encountered homelessness early in life, at just 14. On and off for nearly two years, she lived on the streets of Boston. She slept on benches and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Given that Walmart is the largest employer in America, second only to the government, the fact that they are taking an active stance in addressing women’s empowerment is particularly important.…