After months of budget fights, one victor emerges: Rhetoric By Heather Lyons, Contributing Columnist Last week when Democrats and Republicans in Congress were out-press-conferencing each other on who was more fiscally competent and who cared more about th ...
25 Apr 2011 - Street Roots
Power comes from within, but a splash of color never hurt By Heather Lyons Contributing Columnist A couple of weeks ago, I visited a project on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Downtown Women’s Center is a Day Center and residence with 47 units of permanent suppo ...
14 Sep 2010 - Street Roots
Political rhetoric aside, the progress (for homelessness) is in the planning By Heather Lyons, Contributing Columnist The National Alliance to End Homelessness held its annual conference a few weeks ago. Usually, that conference is jam packed with smart p ...
12 Aug 2010 - Street Roots
Commentary: The bad habits have to go By Heather Lyons Contributing Writer I’ve spent a lot of time looking at spreadsheets lately. These spreadsheets attempt to quantify programmatic need and calculate the resources necessary to develop permanent support ...
23 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
Our full potential lies beyond the bias — and ignorance I only thought these people existed on television, in certain areas of the country, and, in the spirit of full disclosure, in parts of my family. Certainly, not in liberal-loving, alternative-transpo ...
3 Feb 2010 - Street Roots
City’s model status shouldn’t mean we rest on our laurels To the surprise of many, ending homelessness has become an accepted policy in communities across the country — one that has had many successes, and, to be fair, a few failures along the way. While ...
7 Jan 2010 - Street Roots