For Starlite Darnell and her three children, homelessness looks like a hotel room, stuffed with every belonging they could grab from their home before being evicted. It looks like money, lovingly and ...

The modern homelessness debate centers on the future of Housing First. That approach, which calls for giving the homeless permanent housing without strings attached, has become so dominant that many ...

The national dialogue on homelessness is painfully off-base in how it incorrectly places the blame for continued high levels of homelessness on agencies and coalitions, which are actually doing a good ...

The alarming gap between low incomes and high housing costs underscores an urgent need for creative, scalable, and sustainable housing solutions. Responding to the need, philanthropists and ...

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Not long ago, it was “extremely rare” to see someone sleeping outside in Maine. Today, Maine has more than 4,000 people experiencing homelessness. “The change was maybe six or seven years ago,” Mark ...

Housing, at its core, is a basic human need. We all deserve access to reliable, safe spaces to comfortably shelter and simply live. Anya Daly, researcher of philosophy and ethics, posits that we can ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

One irony of leftism in the 21st century is that it makes “Big Leftism” of the prior century, the Cold War titans of Soviet Russia, China, and junior partners, such as Cuba, look like bastions of ...

Going by the official count, roughly 3,500 people are experiencing homelessness in Miami-Dade on any given night. Some sleep in shelters, others on the street. But a population nearly 20 times that ...