Photo Credit: Metro Centric - Queensbridge Houses, CC BY 2.0
By Jennifer Porter Gore
This article was originally published on Word In Black.
Over the weekend, President-elect Trump...
Mural by artist Chris Wright on Metropolitan Avenue in East Atlanta. Art Rudick/Atlanta Street Art Map, CC BY-ND
by Ishita Chordia, University of Washington
Homelessness has...
A Chicago Defender article from 1946 that chronicles the Hemmons family becoming unhoused.
This is Part Three of the Chicago Defender’s series Black and Unhoused:...
This collage details how Black segregation from the past has fueled the homegrown crises of Black homelessness and affordable housing scarcity (Credit: Christa Carter-Williams).
This...
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As part of November’s National Homeless Youth Awareness Month, we took a closer look at what was the scope of youth experiencing...
A group of friends in Los Angeles decided to assemble and distribute lunches to the homeless and post about it on social media. Eight years later, #Hastaglunchbag is a flourishing grassroots movement happening in cities around the country. In August of 2013, the Chicago chapter of #Hashtaglunchbag was born.
Research finds homelessness is a national crisis
By Charlene Crowell
For more than a decade, economists, lawmakers, and others have heralded the nation’s economy. Often citing...
Thousands more low-income Veteran families will now receive assistance under the Supportive Services for Veteran Families.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awarded approximately $300 million...
Annual Holsten Human Capital Development Gala
Chicago Real Estate Mogul Peter Holsten Along with Philanthropist, and Formerly Homeless Resident - to be Honored at Annual Holsten Human...
