42 Search Results Found For: "history"
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No Return to Large Congregate Shelters in America
National Coalition for the Homeless Action AlertDate: April 15, 2021WHO: Local Continuum of Care Collaborative, Balance of State Coordinators, and HUD officialsWHAT: No Return to Large Congregate Shel... -
Homelessness is No Longer an Emergency: Commentary on the release of the 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report
There was a time in US history, around 35 years ago, that homelessness was an emergency. There were a few long term homeless people who were well known around town […]... -
NCH applauds appointment of HUD and HHS Secretaries
The National Coalition for the Homeless congratulates Marcia Fudge on her appointment as the 18th Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Xavier Becerra on […... -
Open Letter to NYC Department of Homeless Services
To: Ms. Joslyn CarterNew York City Department of Homeless Services We read the NY Times story about the Bronx Parent Housing Network shelter and the allegations of harassment by the […]... -
Notes from the Field—Board Member Spotlight Richard R. Troxell
According to George Santayana “An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world,” which pretty much sums up the world occupied by homeless activist Richard Troxell who […]... -
#TBT – Hoboes, bums, tramps: How our terminology of homelessness has changed
Resentment and fear of the homeless is nothing new. Vagrancy was criminalized in England four centuries before the American Revolution; in 1547, England began branding those arrested for vagrancy with... -
#TBT – Street Newspapers
If you live in, or have ever been to, a city like Chicago, or Washington, DC, San Francisco, Nashville or Seattle, you have probably seen a vendor selling a paper […]... -
#TBT – National Union of the Homeless
Modern homelessness, as we know it today, began in the 1970’s. During the Reagan Administration, affordable housing dollars were cut but almost 75%, leading directly to poor working families ex... -
#ThrowbackThursday
Do you still #TBT? Many of us have a short-term memory when it comes to policy, social media too perhaps, cause I haven’t seen a #ThrowBackThursday post since Facebook started […]... -
Homelessness – Growing for Four Decades
The Longest Period of Growing Homelessness In the History of the United StatesMany of us providing services in the early 1980’s to people experiencing homelessness warned our political leaders and ...
