Olympia’s response to homelessness defied conventions. Did it work? A year later, we look at the city’s results and whether they point to a way forward.
Housing and Homeslessness
The city and county’s managed camp is working—but its impact is limited, and its time may be ending.
A young family from Haiti was seeking refuge in Canada. Canada wouldn’t take them, and so the family ended up back in the United States, with nowhere to go.
Many areas were zoned for homes decades or even centuries before our current understanding of wildfire risk.
Coastal Watershed Council leader on Santa Cruz’s homeless impacts.
A reporter quickly shifted gears when COVID-19 struck to produce a renters’ rights guide to answer tenants’ urgent questions.
Seven months later, Outsiders is back with a three-episode finale that seeks to answer some of the questions the podcast laid out in the beginning.
This documentary-style podcast give listeners a close-up view of unsheltered homelessness. Episode 9 takes some of the questions posed by listeners throughout the series, and gives people who are homeless a chance to weigh in.
The western Coachella Valley's three overnight homeless shelters have closed, sending nearly 100 individuals back onto the streets amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The RV park is part of California's Project Room Key program, which aimed to open up 15,000 hotel rooms to the state's homeless population when the pandemic took hold in March.