When a policy intended to help vulnerable people actually harms them, the ethical response is immediate: Stop, reassess and tell the truth. That was why, in January 1996, a team of doctors at the Seattle-based Fred Hutch Cancer Center dramatically halted ...

It is a crisis born from the collapse of accountability at every level of the system. Nowhere are the consequences of that collapse more visible than in California — and especially in its capital city, Sacramento. In 2016, California became the only ...

Fifa says football brings the world together but the unhoused in Atlanta feel targeted and completely excluded from the tournament

Right-wing media have a long history of attacking homeless people, and so far 2026 has seen a continuation of that trend. Pundits have called for sending homeless people to different countries, “internment camps,” and institutions. Right-wing media ...

Unsheltered homelessness — people living in encampments or in vehicles — climbed by 3.3% in the county, and by 7.9% in L.A. city, the report revealed.

A Trump executive order pushes involuntary treatment for homeless people; the VA denies that would include homeless vets.

Los Angeles, the city of palm trees, sunshine, and median temperatures of 65 degrees Fahrenheit, has experienced somewhat chillier temperatures and heavy rains this winter. Regardless, L.A. is still a place many people want to move to. The false hope to ...