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.
Nowhere To Go: Dignity Village
In its endeavor to end homelessness, Gainesville begins dismantling an encampment that had become a ‘broken piece’ in a system of care.
An encampment closes without arrests — or COVID-19 cases
In its endeavor to end homelessness, Gainesville begins dismantling an encampment that had become a ‘broken piece’ in a system of care.
Nowhere To Go: Encampments
With firehoses, bulldozers and condos, gentrifying cities are clearing encampments from the streets.
The thin line between homelessness and not: A Greyhound bus ticket
Tatiana Garcia’s ticket to a new life takes her to upstate New York.
One woman’s quest to find a home
Inside the world of a homeless woman at Dignity Village in Gainesville, Florida.
Extreme heat, coronavirus hitting urban poor hardest, House committee finds
Environmental activists drew connections between the disproportionate impacts of the coronavirus and extreme heat on communities of color in a virtual hearing Tuesday of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
Election mail
As voters worried whether a slowed-down U.S. Postal Service could handle a surge of mailed ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Howard Center partnered with USA Today to measure mail performance in real time in critical swing states. They sent packages each week containing GPS units about the size of a fun-size Snickers bar and tracked their journey in both Democratic- and Republican-leaning areas in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District. Since the GPS units made the envelopes heavier than a standard ballot, reporters also used ordinary letters sent by certified mail with the bar codes logging each step from a mailbox to a location near an election office.
More Than A Mascot
While Washington’s professional football team recently decided to change its name, a 2017 Capital News Service investigation found that high schools across the United States were years ahead of the NFL franchise.
Homeless counts in Northwest Arkansas are hit or miss
Writer Michael Adkison of The Razorback Reporter dove into the details of how the government arrives at a census of the homeless population in Northwest Arkansas — a method replicated by many other communities — revealing a flaw in the point-in-time census method that results in numerous homeless individuals in Northwest Arkansas not being counted.