Salt Lake and Other Utah Cities Used Most of a $10 Million Homeless Services Fund to Hire Cops
Co-published with Salt Lake City Weekly. What does it mean to have police "dedicated to homeless response"?
No Vacancy
Co-published with Harper’s Magazine. Can empty houses help solve homelessness?
Skid Row’s Toilet Crisis: How A Basic Necessity Became A Political Battle
Co-published with The Guardian. The neighborhood is home to 4,400 unhoused people. Its restroom options fall short of the UN standard for refugee camps.
Going for Broke: Making Up Our Minds
Co-published with PRX’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty.
Hungry and on the brink of homelessness, families living in motels look for help
‘This is not a home’: What life in a motel is like for this Richmond family
The Trauma Of Homelessness Doesn’t End Under A Roof
Co-published with Defector. The “struggle to feel safe” is one of the most prevalent issues a psychiatrist says he sees amongst his clients, even once they are housed.
The 2028 L.A. Olympics Are Already Creating a Housing Disaster
Co-published with The New Republic. As the city prepares for the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics two years later, longtime residents are being forced out.
Taxpayers Spent Over Half a Million Dollars to Clean Homeless Encampments in Salt Lake County in 2021
Co-published with The Salt Lake Tribune. Advocates say money would have been better spent on housing and services.
Murder on the River
Co-published with Salt Lake City Weekly. Critics say a lack of trust between police and the homeless community is to blame for an unsolved homicide in Utah.
News from Somewhere
Co-published with The Baffler. A growing number of unhoused people are refusing to live on the run, working to stop evictions and to build something lasting where they …
What if Unhoused People Designed Their Own Homes?
Co-published with Mother Jones. In Oakland, a poet and her crew of “poverty scholars” are doing just that.