Christine McLaren
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Louisiana bill criminalizing homelessness threatens jail time, “unpaid labor”
Critics call Bill 211 “one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country.”
Arlington, Texas is the US’s Largest City Without a Public Transit System. What’s their Secret to Getting Around Car-free?
At 400,000 residents strong, North Texas’s third-largest city has “no trains, no scheduled buses, and no guarantee that the region's on-demand microtransit service will be there when you need it.”
Maryland Housing Secretary Projects 25% Surge in Homelessness due to Trump’s 'Devastating Assault' on Funding
Jake Day says that decades of progress will be reversed by “destructive federal decisions to drag Maryland backwards.”
NYC Teenagers Launch Affordable Housing Portal so Good, it has Attracted Investment
Seeing the failure of the grown-ups who run the city to provide people a way to find affordable housing, two “children of the pandemic” stepped up.
Alexandria, Virginia Halts Public Housing Evictions
While some or all eviction cases may be reinstated, the housing authority has said it needs time to “review policies and determine what is fair and reasonable.”