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News Articles: homelessness

Atlanta Housing hosted its first state of housing city address on April 15, 2025.

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'I’m calling on everybody.' Atlanta Housing shares its goal to expand partnerships and services

Atlanta Housing is sharing updated plans to address homelessness and the lack of affordable housing — and focused on key partnerships with its federal funding in flux.

April 21, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
Nicole Barracliff at Mercy Housing and Shelter in Hartford acts as the "hub" directing incoming individuals to the people and resources that can most help them in the current moment.

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  • Health

Burnout is a problem for caseworkers serving unhoused people

People who provide assistance to the unhoused often feel traumatized by their work.

February 22, 2025
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  • Abigail Brone
United to End Homelessness executive director Jake Hall speaks to The Telegraph on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Macon, Georgia. Hall sees addressing homelessness in Macon and Middle Georgia as a collaborative approach between government and local non-profits. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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These Macon laws prohibit homeless camps, but arrests are rare. Here’s why

Macon-Bibb County is the only municipality in Middle Georgia where homeless camping and sleeping in public is banned. But the ordinances actually have allowed for more outreach and support than arrests.

February 14, 2025
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  • Jesse Fraga
A volunteer with PartnersforHOME, the City of Atlanta's main engine for resolving homelessness conducts outreach.

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Atlanta halts homeless encampment sweeps, reviews procedures following death of resident

The moratorium will last as long as it takes for the Atlanta Continuum of Care to review and update sweep practices and share the results with the public.

January 27, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
Volunteers for the Fulton County Point in Time Count prepare to canvass on January 23, 2024.

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Fulton County delays annual unhoused resident count after freezing weather

Fulton’s annual Point In Time Count of all the unhoused people in the county has been postponed this year due to cold weather. It was scheduled to begin Wednesday.

January 23, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, testifies Thursday at a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

Trump nominee to lead HUD says the agency is failing in its mission

Scott Turner pledged to make HUD programs more streamlined and efficient. He declined to say whether he would oppose major budget cuts to the agency if Trump proposes them again.

January 16, 2025
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Ron Stanley Jr. (standing), a pastor who serves as the vice president of men's ministry, socializes with residents and supporters of Central Union Mission in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

As winter storms surge across the country, here's how one homeless shelter is coping

NPR visited a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C., to see how residents and staff are faring during a cold emergency. The shelter is busy year-round, though the frigid weather brings in more people.

January 08, 2025
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  • James Doubek
Staff for the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust in Florida tally the number of people living unsheltered in downtown Miami, late on Jan. 26, 2024. The annual point-in-time count is a nationwide census mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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U.S. homelessness jumps to another record high, amid affordable housing shortage

The annual federal count finds more than 770,000 people living in shelters or outside. It cites rising rents and the recent surge in migrants as key factors behind the increase.

December 27, 2024
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Chatham County Commission meeting on Friday, Dec. 6.

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  • Politics

Savannah's Chatham County shelves anti-homeless ‘urban camping’ law, for now

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling deemed such laws constitutional.

December 06, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
The mission and vision statements for the Center for Diversion and Services.

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  • Health Care

Atlanta officials hold ribbon-cutting downtown for jail diversion resource center

Atlanta community leaders gathered downtown to cut the ribbon on a new center that will provide resources that could divert people from going to jail.

October 29, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
A man is shown sitting on a chair with his head facing down onto his arms resting on a table inside an empty room.

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  • News

New initiative aims to change conversation about unsheltered people in Brunswick

The founders of Under One Roof are raising millions of dollars to help the "acutely" homeless.

October 03, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
A homeless person walks near an elementary school in Grants Pass, Ore., on March 23.  The rural city became the unlikely face of the nation's homelessness crisis when it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold its anti-camping laws.

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  • National

The Supreme Court says cities can punish people for sleeping in public places

The decision is a win for Western cities that wanted more powers to manage record homelessness. But advocates for the unhoused say the decision will do nothing to solve the larger problem

June 28, 2024
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  • Jennifer Ludden
The 40 micro-units of Atlanta’s first rapid housing community for unhoused people includes a bed, kitchenette and bathroom. (Dyana Bagby)

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Micro communities for the homeless sprout in U.S. cities eager for small, quick and cheap solutions

Officials in Atlanta and Denver believe that micro communities, unlike shelters, offer residents stability that, when combined with wraparound services, can more effectively put them on the path to secure housing.

June 14, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Albert Kenneth Knight Jr.

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‘I hope they find the person who did this.’ Suspect still at large in homeless man’s killing

It took almost two days for Albert Knight Jr.’s body to be discovered in a downtown Macon alley.

June 11, 2024
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  • Laura Corley
Wymon Johnson, poses for a portrait at his residence in Bakersfield, Calif. Johnson is currently renting a room from a friend while he is waiting for long term housing through the Kern County Housing Authority.

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  • Health

They sacrificed to care for family and ended up on the street

Many people lose income when they become caregivers for a family member. Some even end up losing their home.

May 29, 2024
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  • Kat McGowan
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