McKinney-Vento turns 25; homelessness still grows By Paul Boden, Contributing Columnist Passed in 1987, McKenny-Vento was intended to address the emergency needs of homeless people while the federal government worked to restore the funding which had been ...
16 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
Fed up with housing policy By Paul Boden, Contributing Columnist More than 1.46 million households are currently living on less than $2 a day per person in the wealthiest country in the world, more than double what it was in 1996. This shameful fact has h ...
6 Jun 2012 - Street Roots
The time doesn’t fit the crime on the streets By Paul Boden, Contributing Writer The Western Regional Advocacy Project has been documenting the increases of mentally ill people in local jails as a result of diminished funding for mental health treatment a ...
19 Jan 2011 - Street Roots
The quality of whose life? The zero-sum game. Part II A panhandler on Powell Street in San Francisco. Photo by BrokenSphere/Wikimedia Commons The second in a four-part series on the country’s modern anti-poor movement By Paul Boden, Contributing Writer Wh ...
17 Dec 2010 - Street Roots
The quality of whose life? The first in a four-part series on the country’s modern anti-poor movement by Paul Boden, Contributing Writer One more stark reminder of the disconnect between our ideals and public policy is to look at the declining stocks of o ...
7 Dec 2010 - Street Roots
Camping ordinance being challenged The Oregon Law Center's class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Portland's camping ordinance follows in a long line of similar lawsuits filed across the country to vindicate the Constitutional ...
8 Jan 2009 - Street Roots
This week on the homeless front... Oct. 28, 2008 From Street Roots: Paul Boden asks when a family falls- does anyone hear them? Taking down the system: Rules for Radicals in the digital era. Around the horn: Supporters rally to save Nashville tent city fo ...
29 Oct 2008 - Street Roots