February 23, 2010
Unemployment, United States
July 17, 2009
An article in RaceWire looks at the myth of gay affluence and how poverty affects queer people of colour. Recent research looked at American census data and found queer couple families are...
Ethnicity and Race, LGBTQ, Poverty Research, International, United States
June 19, 2009
Barbara Ehreneich, the author of “Nickel and Dimed”, has written an editorial in the New York Times about how the media has been concentrating on how the economic downturn has effected the upper and...
economic crisis, Poverty Research, recession, United States
May 22, 2009
Recently the international media has been focusing on the number of tent cities and shantytowns in the cities and towns across America. According to an article on AlterNet, the media is not asking...
Homelessness, United States
April 13, 2009
A story in the New York Times investigates how about a dozen advocacy groups around the country are actively moving homeless people into vacant homes, sometimes moving them back into their homes that...
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, United States
April 13, 2009
http://www.economichumanrights.org/ - The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish...
Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Organizing, General resources, United States
April 13, 2009
http://www.cohhio.org/ - Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) is involved in a range of housing assistance services in Ohio, including homeless prevention, emergency shelters,...
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, General resources, United States
December 30, 2008
Marykate Connor, founder of Caduceus Outreach Services in San Francisco, talks about her innovative work helping homeless people with mental health problems. She discusses the criminal justice system...
Homelessness, Mental Health, United States
December 12, 2008
Food banks across the US and Canada are deeply affected by tough economic times both by a decline in donations and an increase in demand. The US government has started shifting the federal government...
Foodbanks and Food, United States
December 2, 2008
A Miami activist organization, Take Back the Land, has started moving in homeless individuals and families into empty foreclosed homes. Take Back the Land asserts: "that it is immoral to maintain...
Homelessness, Housing, United States
December 2, 2008
http://www.clvu.org/ - City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community...
Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, General resources, United States
December 2, 2008
http://takebacktheland.blogspot.com/
http://takebacktheland.org/
Take Back the Land is an activist group out of Miami that asserts their right to the land in their communities and the use of public...
Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, General resources, United States
September 20, 2008
After more then twenty-five years the New York City municipal government has finally decided to settle a lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society to draw attention to homeless families. The lawsuit...
Family, Homelessness, Housing, United States
July 22, 2008
The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned an earlier decision which found the Safe Third Country Agreement violated international and Canadian law. Under the Safe Third Country Agreement persons...
Immigrants and Refugees, All of Canada, United States
July 13, 2008
Picture the Homeless, a New York based activist organization, are fighting a campaign to demand that the transit authority make a bus that travels to a homeless shelter on Ward's Island, free for...
Homelessness, United States
April 10, 2008
Watch a BBC news story, "Subprime -The 'new' homeless in the US" (Video), about tent cities that have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the subprime mortgage crisis.
Homelessness, United States
February 21, 2008
According to research presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "poverty in early childhood poisons the brain." According to the research, children growing up in very poor...
Children and Youth, United States
February 13, 2008
http://www.cohsf.org/ - The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco (COH) initiates program and policy changes that result in the creation of exits from poverty. The COH unites homeless people and...
Homelessness, Organizing, General resources, United States
February 13, 2008
http://www.beyondchron.org/ - Beyond Chron, the Voice of the Rest, is an alternative online daily published by the San Francisco-based Tenderloin Housing Clinic.
Media, General resources, United States
February 13, 2008
More and more anti-poverty organizations and coalitions are using the web to broadcast videos of their work. Housing not War, a campaign to demand the federal government spend money on housing...
Homelessness, Organizing, All of Canada, United States
