US 2009 Poverty Rate Jumps to 14.3%: Census Omits Vital Data from Rise in Poverty Rate
by Neil Donovan, Executive Director The US Census Bureau announced the finding from its annual report: Income Poverty and...
Don’t Obstruct the Personal Act of Giving
by Neil Donovan, NCH Executive Director The people of Memphis want to know if they should put up “parking...
Response to Homelessness: Hot or Cold?
In January, NCH released a report on Winter Services that detailed extended shelter hours and other services that work...
What Would Mitch Snyder Say and Do Today?
By Michael Stoops, Director of Community Organizing Twenty years ago, the movement to end homelessness lost its most charismatic...
A Young Advocate’s Perspective: Mitch Snyder
On a late September day in 2009, I trekked from the NCH offices to make visit to the White...
Is it legal to restrict food-sharing?
By Jackie Dowd The food-sharing in downtown Orlando went on as usual last Wednesday night, despite the decision by...
Senator Robert Byrd, Homeless Advocate Too!
By Michael Stoops, Director of Community Organizing The McKinney Act was the first major federal program to provide funds...
We are Still the Same
Here at the National Coalition for the Homeless, co-workers and I were discussing the laws against panhandling that have...
Homeless Hate Crime Legislation Gains Momentum
By Michael Stoops, Director of Community Organizing On April 20, FL/H-11 (Crimes Against the Homeless) was passed 80-28 in...
Tourism vs. Homelessness
by Michael Stoops, Director of Community Organizing Each summer I notice how tourism and homelessness do not get along...