For some, getting released from incarceration means getting to go home to their families. For others, it means a new sentence to homelessness, unemployment and missed opportunities.
Drug evictions create obstacles to housing the homeless
Experts say trouble is brewing in Martinsburg, West Virginia, because of a city law called the “drug house ordinance.”
In many cities, it’s illegal to beg for food or money
It’s illegal to sleep on a park bench. It’s illegal to stand in one place for too long. In hundreds of American cities, it’s a crime to be homeless.
Code Red: Baltimore’s Climate Divide
Urban heat islands vividly illustrate the price humans will pay in the world’s growing climate crisis. With an abundance of concrete and little shade, they get hotter faster and stay hotter longer. And the people who live there are often sicker, poorer and less able to protect themselves.
A summer in Baltimore’s hottest neighborhoods
A look at how and why we reported the series.