Failing grade: Initiative misses lesson of history"Thousands of addicts and mentally ill people have traded a life behind bars for a churning cycle of homelessness, substance abuse and petty crime," says the report by The Desert Sun of Palm Springs, The Ventura County Star, The Redding Record Searchlight and The Salinas Californian. The savings were to be poured into drug and mental health care treatment and job training.
Prime Healthcare Refutes Claims in Frivolous Senate BillRedding's Chief of Police, Robert Paoletti stated, "Shasta county has a disproportionately high number of homeless and transient population that fill emergency departments limiting access to other acutely ill patients. [...]the law enforcement department and medical community work together to provide the appropriate medical care for these patients and ensure their safety and safe disposition from both SRMC and Mercy hospitals.
Tent Cities: An Interim Solution to Homelessness and Affordable Housing Shortages in the United StatesProvides background on homelessness, informal housing, and tent cities, explores the benefits derived from tent cities both for encampment residents and for local government actors, and
also considers the ethical and legal constraints associated with homeless encampments. The Comment then explores innovative government responses that have allowed tent cities to survive and sometimes thrive. Finally, the Comment proposes several ways in which tent cities can be acknowledged, addressed and improved.
WHO IS DOING WELL? A TYPOLOGY OF NEWLY HOMELESS ADOLESCENTSThere is growing evidence to support developing new typologies for homeless adolescents. Current typologies focus on the risks associated with being homeless, with less consideration of the positive attributes of
homeless adolescents. The authors examined both risk and protective factors in a sample of newly homeless adolescents.
Social Work’s Role in Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness: Opportunities for ActionAntihomeless policies are primarily intended to reduce the presence of homeless people in specific locations or in an entire community, in an effort to maintain or improve public safety, economic stability, and aesthetic appeal. Includes examples of laws that criminalize homelessness.
MEDIAN BANS, ANTI-HOMELESS LAWS AND THE URBAN GROWTH MACHINEDatabase: Academic Search Complete
The article discusses the anti-homeless laws that prevent individuals from occupying traffic islands in which local governments have enacted, as well as media bans and urban growth machine.
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