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News Articles: unhoused

Partners for Home working with the City of Atlanta is conducting their annual count estimating how many homeless people live in the city.

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Atlanta begins its annual count of unhoused people

Atlanta’s annual count of people facing homelessness is underway. The point in time or PIT count happens each January and determines federal funding.

January 24, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
Keisha Gibson at the motel room she shares with her seven children. Gibson's children meet the definition of homeless twice over under a federal education law. As a family and under federal housing law they do not, locking Gibson and her kids out of housing aid the could better help her kids succeed in school.

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Housing aid doesn't always reach homeless youth. Here's how educators aim to help

Educators say helping homeless students find a stable address is incredibly important. But before that can happen, there has to be agreement that kids are even homeless in the first place. 

January 24, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
As temps drop, warming shelters across the state open as they try to provide shelter for the homeless.

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Georgia warming shelters open ahead of winter freeze

Temperatures will drop into the mid teens Thursday night and stay below freezing that way through the weekend. In order to help those without adequate housing, state and local officials are opening warming centers.

December 22, 2022
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  • Amanda Andrews
Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, Columbus Drive and Michigan Avenue double-leaf trunnion bascule bridges, top to bottom, are seen over the Chicago River on April 3, 2006.

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Opinion: Remembering Chicago's famed Walking Man

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life Joseph Kromelis, Chicago's famous "Walking Man", and the harsh conditions that many unhoused people live with every day.

December 17, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
LaShundra Thomas in the doorway of her new home in Columbus. A string of deadbeat landlords in Atlanta left Thomas without adequate housing.

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On the cutting edge of solutions to homelessness in Georgia, it's 'housing first'

After years of steady declines, levels of homelessness in the U.S. began rising again during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proven strategies are being used to reduce homelessness, even if they are facing new challenges.

October 27, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
This GOES-East GeoCcolor satellite image taken at 10:10 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, and provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Ian over the Gulf of Mexico. Ian tore into western Cuba as a major hurricane Tuesday, knocking out power to the entire country and leaving millions people without electricity.

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Hurricane Ian is now a Category 4 storm. Here are resources for Florida's homeless

Various counties across central Florida are opening up various shelters for the general population. Here are some of the resources being made available for the homeless.

September 28, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
A group of people warm up around a fire at a Gainesville encampment during winter months in 2015.

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Georgia lawmakers seek solutions to homelessness after criminalization bill stalled

A state Senate study committee heard from nonprofit and state agencies about a homelessness problem that’s been complicated by out-of-control housing costs, bureaucratic red tape and disagreements over the best ways to help.

August 05, 2022
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  • Stanley Dunlap
A city-sanctioned encampment for homeless people in Los Angeles includes 70 tents and provides bathrooms, showers and 24-hour security.

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High Cost Of Los Angeles Homeless Camp Raises Eyebrows And Questions

Los Angeles has opened a sanctioned tent encampment to help provide services amid an ongoing homelessness crisis. Some are concerned about the high cost of providing a camping spot in a parking lot.

May 26, 2021
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  • Anna Scott

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