Wince of the Week, February 10-16, 2013, our EHRP team winced when we read this from a Washington Post article, “Heart-wrenching Catch 22: Homeless families who turn to city [...]

The doors of the Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco don’t open until 7 am, but on the Saturday morning I was there, a dozen or so people were already lined up by 5[...]

Wince of the Week, January 6, 2013. The EHRP Team winced when we read this: For the first time ever, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless.  [...]

Quote of the Day – December 5, 2012 “There’s an inability of workers to find new jobs, and those that do are not making as much as before,” says Janice King[...]

Quote of the Day – October 31, 2012 There are thousands of homeless people in New York City. On a given night, 51,000 sleep in city and private shelters, according to the Coa[...]

Quote of the Day – October 25, 2012 During years of economic downturn, cities across the country have reported rising vagrancy and rushed to pass laws banning aggressive panh[...]

Quote of the Day – October 24, 2012 Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness — for women, in particular, as well as unaccompanied youth. In 2011, the U.S. C[...]

Quote of the Day, June 29, 2012 I’ve been working most of the time that I’ve been homeless but often times a person doesn’t make a living wage, they don’t m[...]

The EHRP Team winced when we saw this story, reported by Gretchen Gavett for PBS Frontline: Deamonte Driver’s tooth was bothering him. The same was the case for his younger brother[...]

Quote of the Day, June 25, 2012 Most people who experience homelessness do so on a temporary basis. The idea that “homeless people” remain homeless for many years, perhaps even the[...]