Homelessness
How to help people with addictions on the streets? These Oregon programs have solutions
The state has one of the highest US rates of substance use disorders and ranks last for access to treatment. These initiatives are changing what rehab looks like
Sam Levin in Portland, Hillsboro and Medford, Oregon
01, Apr, 2025 @2:00 PM
Asylum system risks ‘damaging social cohesion’, Glasgow city council warns
Council says cost running into tens of millions, as homeless refugees granted asylum across UK come to city for support
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
01, Apr, 2025 @11:01 AM
Only 2.5% of private rentals in England affordable on housing benefit, study finds
Exclusive: Charities say freeze to housing benefit will push more people into rent arrears and homelessness
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent
01, Apr, 2025 @4:00 AM
Oregon abandoned its radical drug law. Then came the mass arrests
Last year, the state ended a trailblazing law decriminalizing possession. Drug users in some counties are now in and out of jail, without lawyers, struggling to get treatment
Sam Levin in Medford, Oregon, with photographs by Amanda Lucier
31, Mar, 2025 @2:00 PM
Rewind and be kind: what happens if you do one act of kindness every day?
When Bernadette Russell decided to perform one good deed every day for a year, it made a difference to the world around her but also had a big impact on her own life
Donna Ferguson
30, Mar, 2025 @8:00 AM
Unhoused Seattle man runs for mayor from a tent: ‘It’s a humanitarian crisis’
After losing his home during the pandemic, Joe Molloy launched a bid to lead Seattle, putting first-hand experience at the heart of his campaign
Andrew Buncombe in Seattle
26, Mar, 2025 @2:00 PM
Unhoused San Diego woman towed in van found dead inside a month later
Family of Monica Cameroni De Adams, 65, files $50m damages claim as lawyer accuses city of ‘burying her alive’
Sam Levin in Los Angeles
14, Mar, 2025 @10:42 PM
Grim details emerge in death of California man killed in trash sweep
James Edward Oakley, 58-year-old man living in Vallejo, was crushed by piece of excavating equipment last year
Abené Clayton
14, Mar, 2025 @12:49 AM
From sleeping in doorways to reporting on homelessness: the journalist chronicling an American crisis
Kevin Fagan, who spent decades at the San Francisco Chronicle, argues in a new book that ‘atrociously unforgivable’ US poverty must be addressed
Dani Anguiano
13, Mar, 2025 @12:00 PM
Brisbane council accused of ‘cruel’ and ‘heartless’ crackdown on homeless in wake of Cyclone Alfred
As some Queensland councils move to ban sleeping in public parks, a Melbourne municipality is considering following suit
Andrew Messenger and Adeshola Ore
13, Mar, 2025 @9:28 AM
Tim Miller obituary
Other lives: Film-maker who became a probation officer and helped start Centrepoint and Private Eye
Henry Tricks
11, Mar, 2025 @5:54 PM
Lynette is on the pension, a casual teacher, a golf instructor – and homeless
Activists warn without funding for affordable housing, essential workers will increasingly be priced out of the areas where they work
Cait Kelly Inequality reporter
08, Mar, 2025 @7:00 PM
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