Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime?
Unhoused senior citizens Kim Morris and Kevin Gevas call a homeless advocate from Mint at Tussing Park in Grants Pass, Oregon on Thursday March 28, 2024. Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Helen Cruz has been a resident of Grants Pass,…
The Supreme Court Is About to Have a Very Busy Week
US Supreme Court justices arrive for the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020. Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Monday marks the…
Berkeley’s People’s Park Is a Metaphor That Has Outlived Its Use
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This essay was originally published on Dashka Slater’s Substack, A Sigh of Relief, which you can sign up for here. I was homeless when I started college at the University of California, Berkeley. First-year students weren’t guaranteed housing in…
California Lawmakers Want to Invest Billions in Housing—by Diverting Mental Health Funds
Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Time / Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 5, Californians will vote on Proposition 1. The ballot measure, if passed, will allow the state to divert funds raised for non-coercive mental health care to housing and…
“I’m Doing the Best I Can”: Stories From California’s Unsheltered Community
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Nearly one-third of all Americans experiencing homelessness live in California. Each night, more than 170,000 people sleep outside or in temporary shelters across the state. The vast majority—90 percent—were living in California when they became unhoused. And 75 percent…
Cheaper Housing or More Homelessness? Your Call, California.
Levi Meir Clancy/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The primary reason people become unhoused in California is unaffordable housing, including due to loss of income, according to a study released Tuesday. Around a third of the United States’ unhoused population—some 170,000 people—lives in the state. The…