The city will give advocates 50 vacant homes to be used for permanent housing for low-income residents, according to a tentative agreement.

The Trump administration mishandled COVID-19, creating conditions that left transgender people even more vulnerable to housing instability than before. Now it’s pushing for a rule change that would allow homeless shelters to discriminate against trans people.

Researchers say that programs like the Magnolia Mother’s Trust, which gives Black women $1,000 a month, could be crucial in reducing the racial wealth gap.

Sports venues like the new SoFi Stadium have been crushing poor communities around the country for over a century.

In order to get real about addressing homelessness in America, we need to get real about how we have demonized, dehumanized, and criminalized the presence of unhoused people in our local community.

Some corporate landlords who received federal PPP loans are notorious for mistreating tenants.

Although the agency has vacant properties, public housing has been out of reach for nearly a decade for many who need it.

A lawsuit alleges Breonna Taylor died because Louisville was trying to arrest its way toward economic redevelopment. Research shows this is common.

A June report from the county’s independent judicial arm urges local government to reallocate law enforcement resources to social services.

Housing rights activists in California are pushing for taxation of rich residents to help the hundreds of thousands of people who may be at risk of losing housing after COVID-19 eviction restrictions end.

Hundreds were forced from an encampment to fenced-in, asphalt parking lots with no shade in Phoenix’s triple-digit summer heat. At least three people have died.

Police should no longer occupy all of our vital support systems in our communities.

Tens of thousands of people in Los Angeles County are at high risk for becoming homeless after the temporary halt on evictions is lifted—one of the largest mass displacements the region has ever seen.

The frustrations of residents in the Powderhorn neighborhood, not far from where George Floyd was killed, have gotten some national coverage. But the homelessness crisis in the city isn’t new, and it could soon get worse.

COVID-19 is disproportionately putting Black and Latinx people at higher risk of eviction, fueling a housing crisis that is already in progress.

Many city residents who’ve served time for sexual crimes have families who want them back, but a 19-year-old law keeps them away.

Predominantly Black neighborhoods have less access to primary care physicians and healthcare services, at a time when COVID-19 is killing Black Americans at a rate 2.3 times higher than white Americans. Now grassroots organizations are trying to compensate for failures of public health.

The nation has an opportunity to take advantage of this transformative event and pursue an alternative to the current system.

Making our communities safe requires not only the defunding of police departments, but also dismantling discriminatory laws that target survival activities such as sleeping, sitting, lying down, and eating in public space.

In our Explainer series, Justice Collaborative lawyers, journalists, and other legal experts help unpack some of the most complicated issues in the criminal justice system. We break down the problems behind the headlines—like bail, civil asset forfeiture, or the Brady doctrine—so that everyone can understand them. Wherever possible, we try to utilize the stories of […]

Safe and healthy communities start with less police and more investment in community services that work.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis are both provoked by natural phenomena, the dangers they present are just as political as the crisis of police violence.

The country’s homeless population was already struggling to access services during the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed Florida lawmakers’ failure to build affordable housing for its residents.

This weekend’s string of errors is just the latest in his career of cruelty.

Health officials say hand washing is key to avoiding the novel coronavirus, but millions of homeless people continue to have little or no access to hygiene stations.

The city is flouting CDC guidance by continuing to dismantle homeless encampments during the COVID-19 pandemic, though it does not have nearly enough shelter space.

Many community development corporations assist not only tenants, but also a wider community of low-income people with a range of social services.

Expansion of an existing federal rental subsidy program, the Housing Choice Voucher, could stabilize housing for millions of households.

Some are striking because they can’t afford to pay the rent. Others are striking in protest against what they say is inhumane treatment.

Segregation not only increases individuals’ exposure to the novel coronavirus, it also leaves them more susceptible to its effects and limits the quality of care they will receive, experts say.

Laid-off workers say they face insurmountable debt and homelessness if they have to pay back months of rent after the pandemic.

There are certain universal human needs that any governing structure — from local to federal — is responsible for. Among these are housing, healthcare, education, public parks, clean water, and clean air — the things that make life beautiful. These needs touch every single living being and as such, are non-negotiable. They do not belong on the open market.

Elected officials need to stop making excuses for not getting unhoused people into hotel rooms.

The Bureau of Prisons could send those without homes to alternative halfway houses far from D.C. or back to prison at the end of the month.

As millions file for unemployment, tenants are banding together to support their neighbors who can’t pay the rent.

As the coronavirus crisis continues to expand, it is clear that America needs a robust assistance program for the most vulnerable, such as the elderly and physically disabled, to ensure they have what they need to survive. The health, safety, and stability of all communities depend on it.

The city has created the structural conditions that have engendered disproportionately high rates of infection and death among its Black and Latinx residents.

Their proposals move beyond Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 90-day eviction moratorium and call for suspending or forgiving rent payments longer term.

Taking emergency measures to protect homeless people from the pandemic is simply common sense.