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Surviving the Great Depression: How Families Fed Themselves

The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, families had to stretch every dollar, make do with what they had, and get ...
Los Angeles Times

Homelessness in California used to be much worse. Here’s how L.A. turned it around

The tragedy of homelessness can never be long out of mind here in California, where tents line sidewalks and freeway underpasses and lost street-corner souls rant at God knows what. We gawk in sadness ...

A homeless advocate of 40 years says finding homes for unhoused New Yorkers with vouchers has never been so hard

Marc Greenberg, the executive director of the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness & Housing, says housing voucher holders need much more help finding homes.
WGRZ

Selfless Among Us: How Family Promise of WNY is Keeping Families Together and Ending Homelessness

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When Asia first encountered Family Promise of Western New York (FPWNY), she was a teenager facing homelessness with her mother. Years later, as a mother herself, Asia found herself in ...