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Sam Tsemberis has revolutionized the way we think about homelessness

The Housing First pioneer explains why the policy of housing a person before attempting to fix their underlying issues works best In the late 1980s and early ’90s, on both ends of the country, the concept of Housing First was born. In 1988, a Los Angeles ...

11 Nov 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
Unpacking the complex relationship of addiction, homelessness, housing and recovery

Even if addiction isn’t what puts people on the streets, it’s often what keeps them there Fast, cheap and ubiquitous, heroin is engineered for the streets. That’s where Saphire Harris lived, homeless, with her brother and mother. Harris started using as a ...

4 Nov 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
America’s housing crisis is in ‘uncharted territory’

Affordable housing and support services fall far short of demand. And, as a surge of evictions looms, the worst is yet to come. There are fewer than a dozen postal addresses along the short stretch of 97th Avenue, between Burnside and Glisan streets, but ...

28 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
The death of public housing

From redlining to the Reagan administration to the present-day crisis, the government has spent decades shifting the burden to the private sector Housing is political, and public housing is political dynamite. The truly public buildings of the past have g ...

28 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
Losing ground: How the Trump administration has reversed U.S. housing policy

The White House’s attitudes toward homelessness could grow the population it wishes to sweep away As of this writing, the future of the Trump administration is unknown. What comes next may be the end of a contentious legacy of a single-term president or a ...

21 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl