“I Don’t Wanna Drop Dead Out Here”
A homeless encampment near downtown Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was mid-afternoon when first responders found David Spell slumped and unresponsive under a bus shelter. The temperature outside was nearing 110F (43C)—the hottest day of the year so far in Phoenix,…
What If Unhoused People Designed Their Own Homes?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In East Oakland, home to what the San Francisco Chronicle calls the “Bay Area’s hottest housing market,” a row of stucco townhomes sprung up along a blighted stretch of MacArthur Boulevard in 2021. Tan-colored and not…
Will Minneapolis Pass a Law That Helps Renters Buy Their Homes?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Arianna Anderson had just gone into labor with her fifth child in March 2021 when a bathroom pipe burst. She scrambled to pack for the hospital and, with her husband working out of state, shuttle her young…
I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness—Only to Face Your White Savior Complex
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This is the true story of what happened when all the trauma was supposed to be over, when I left my “home” on the park bench on the outskirts of Salt Lake City for the last time…
Los Angeles Cops Bring the Echo Park Tent Community to a Violent End
Dozens of police officers line up in front of Echo Park. Sarah Zimmerman Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Thursday evening, around 200 hundred people arrived at the corner of Sunset and Lemoyne in Los Angeles’…
Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On a steamy Saturday in late June, Joyce McMillan stood outside the Brooklyn Family Court wearing a T-shirt that had “TRUTH OVER TRADITION” emblazoned across the front. A crowd of about…