Human Services

Brittany Powell moved from the Bay Area to Vermont in 2016, just as wildfire smoke was becoming a regular summertime occurrence in California. She watched in horror from afar as…

Sabrina Friday scanned the room at Mother’s Nest, an organization in Macon that provides baby supplies, training, food and housing to mothers in need, and she asked how many planned…

Floridians and residents along the Southeast region of the United States are left shaken in the aftermath of not one but two major hurricanes that wreaked havoc over two weeks, causing widespread…

As principal of Dunaire Elementary School, Sean Deas has seen firsthand the struggles faced by children living in extended-stay hotels. About 10% of students at his school, just east of…

Multiple state agencies spent nearly $24 billion on housing and homeless programs to alleviate California’s homelessness crisis in the first five years of Gavin Newsom’s governorship, but the number of…

Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis through social housing. On September 25–28, housing justice organizations held National…

In August, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in his working-man’s clothes—aviators, jeans, and a trucker hat—starred in a video where he carted people’s possessions out of a homeless encampment near a Los…

Humboldt County, CA, and San Francisco are the latest pair to start some drama about who is busing homeless people where and homeless relocation programs. This seems to be a…

Turnout for early in-person voting has started strongly in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where deadly Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but apparently did not…

Angelique is racing against the clock to stop her eviction from Plymouth Housing’s Almquist Place. She owes $2,014 in back rent and she has until October 18th. “I just worry…

Across the country, churches that once attracted hundreds of parishioners are now facing declining congregations and near-empty buildings. Thus, faith communities and affordable housing efforts are coming together in an unexpected…

As low-income households face the dual burden of weather extremes and high energy costs, energy efficiency is an increasingly important strategy for both climate mitigation and lower utility bills. Passive…