There’s Too Much We Don’t Know About Adult Residential Facilities
Where can the unhoused seriously mentally ill, co-occurring, or addicted populations go and what occurs once they are there? For...
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Homelessness: Biden’s Plan to Combat It Is Recycled and Feeble
The Biden administration, through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has unveiled its latest strategy to solve...
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Hope Street Submits Amicus Brief in LA Alliance on Human Rights Case
Hope Street Coalition has submitted an amicus (friend of the court) brief to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the L.A. Alliance...
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I was an addict – The incentives for recovery are dead wrong
By Tom Wolf It’s a miracle I’m alive today. Addiction caused me to go from middle-class county worker with a...
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$1 Billion Will Not Get The Vulnerable Off L.A’s Streets
In his State of the City address, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the dedication of $1 billion to address homelessness in...
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California’s Conservatorship Crisis
Recently I was following a conversation on the app ‘Next Door’ about homelessness. The participants were complaining that tents, RVs...
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The Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill
Since the 1950s, the large majority of mental health hospitals across the country have been closed, resulting in a dramatic...
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How the IMD Exclusion Impacts Homelessness
Kerry Morrison, of Heart Forward, recently posted an excellent explanation of how the IMD Exclusion has a direct effect on...
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