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 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