Quote of the Day, Valentine’s Day, 2013, excerpted from Do You Ignore Homeless People? by Alyssa Figueroa on AlterNet: “What’s the worst part about being homeless?” Sleppy as[...]
Feb 14 2013
Quote of the Day, January 10, 2013, excerpted from “Criminalizing Poverty” by Bobbie Ibarra, Executive Director of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless From the early 1[...]
Jan 10 2013
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[...]
Oct 31 2012
Tagged: disaster, homeless, homelessness, housing, hurricane Sandy, new york, shelter, storm, vulnerable, weather
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[...]
Oct 25 2012
Tagged: city ordinance, criminalization, criminalize, homeless, homelessness, laws, lie, poverty, sit, vagrants
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[...]
Oct 24 2012
Tagged: domestic Violence, homeless, homelessness, housing, human right, survivors, VAWA, violence, women
Wince of the Week, July 15-21. The EHRP Team winced when we read this: After record foreclosures, layoffs and budget cuts that hit poor families the hardest, America is a country w[...]
Jul 20 2012
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[...]
Jun 29 2012
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[...]
Jun 25 2012
The EHRP Team winced when we saw this story, reported by Ken Carlson at the Modesto Bee: “A growing number of cities are adopting ordinances that, in the words of homeless ad[...]
Jun 11 2012