KREM

Spokane agencies create dashboard of statistics on homelessness in Spokane County

SPOKANE, Wash. — The City of Spokane, the City of Spokane Valley, Spokane County and the Spokane Regional Health District announced a partnership to launch an online data dashboard to help the ...
City & State New York

“Solving” homelessness without understanding the problem

Homelessness, like most crises, is a complex problem that requires a multifaceted approach to spur a viable solution for New York City’s roughly 62,000 homeless New Yorkers – a census that includes ...
Oregonian

Solving homelessness starts with understanding its scope. Multnomah County is nearly there

For a long time, no one has known exactly how many people in Multnomah County are homeless. There have been biannual estimates and a rough list of individual people, but not a quality-checked, ...
wqad

Residents gain better understanding of homelessness in the QCA through immersive experience

DAVENPORT, Iowa — A group of Quad Cities residents took part in a homelessness immersion event Friday, walking the paths many unhoused people take daily in Davenport. The experience, hosted by ...
Yahoo

Editorial: To understand homelessness, listen to homeless people. Here's what I learned

Miles Templeman, who was formerly unhoused, shows off his room key during a "Welcome Home" celebration in February 2024 at the Dalton apartment complex for people who transitioned from encampments to ...
KWQC

Homelessness immersion experience allows QC residents to understand daily challenges of the unhoused

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -The mission is making an impact and ending homelessness in the Quad Cities for Humility Homes and Services. To bring attention and to increase local support for ending ...
The Baltimore Sun

Homeless services haven’t failed; the public narrative has

The national dialogue on homelessness is painfully off-base in how it incorrectly places the blame for continued high levels of homelessness on agencies and coalitions, which are actually doing a good ...
Billings Gazette

Volunteers reach out to understand homeless during annual survey

Roughly 50 volunteers spread out across Billings on Thursday and Friday on behalf of the Human Resources Development Council to survey the city’s homeless population as part of the 2017 Point in Time ...
WFAE

A conversation with NC doctor Brian Klausner on his new book on chronic homelessness

Public health physician Dr. Brian Klausner believes the time to address the chronically unhoused is now. Klausner, who draws from years of experience caring for the homeless population, shares stories ...
Hosted on MSN

Record amount of volunteers helps to better understand homelessness in central Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — In Franklin County, volunteers were up early Thursday to better understand a growing crisis in our community. They participated in the point-in-time count, a nationwide event ...
PBS

Black Illinoisans Are Experiencing Homelessness at a High Rate

A new report says homelessness among Black Illinoisans is more than twice the national average. Homelessness among Black Illinois residents is more than double the national average, according to a ...