Results for keyword: homelessness
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The teenagers we're not helping
The West's gay teenagers are too often ignored -- abandoned by their families to live on the streets or in overcrowded homeless shelters.
by Tim Lydon, May 10, 2012 -
Pulling an Everett Ruess
When you're out of work and homeless, it's inspiring to remember young wanderers like Everett Ruess, even if he never returned from his mysterious sojourn in the canyon country of Utah.
by Jane Koerner, Nov 08, 2011 -
Tent cities and what they tell us
Most Americans associate slums with places like Mumbai, India, but all over the West, tent cities and shantytowns are springing up to house the dispossessed.
by Jonathan Thompson , Mar 31, 2009 -
Slumdog U.S.A.
Most Americans associate slums with places like Mumbai, India. But they exist here, too.
by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 16, 2009 -
Tarp Nation
Throughout the West, tent cities and shantytowns with names like Taco Flat have sprung up to house the poor and dispossessed.
by Scott Bransford , Mar 16, 2009 -
INNOVATE, Part I
Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, as this special issue of HCN shows.
by Ray Ring, Tom Beal, Emily Underwood, Terray Sylvester, Sarah Gilman, Mar 09, 2009
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