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This nonprofit is fighting to house all homeless children in San Francisco by 2020 - and tech companies are helping
Salesforce has worked with Hamilton to create a database of available housing and its employees fre…
Matt Rosoff
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Salesforce donates $1.5 million to fight the San Francisco homelessness problem - and CEO Marc Benioff is matching it
In March, Cisco committed $50 million over the next five years to Destination: Home, an organizatio…
Becky Peterson
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Jeff Bezos donated nearly $1 billion to 24 homeless groups. Only 4 of them are in cities where Amazon's HQ2 will go.
When it came time to choose the location of Amazon's second headquarters, or HQ2, Bezos opted for t…
Aria Bendix
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England's housing crisis has gotten so bad that children are living in shipping containers, doing homework on the toilet, and eating on floors. Nearly 400,000 more kids could be homeless soon.
In her report, Longfield said the most common causes of family homelessness in England are a lack o…
Aria Bendix
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Caitlyn Jenner slams homeless encampments in Los Angeles: 'We have to reclaim our public space'
"We're talking about people, human beings sleeping on the sidewalk. Where are you gonna put them?" …
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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San Francisco's out-of-control homelessness crisis could be combated by a new tracking tool
The new solution - known as ONE System (Online Navigation and Entry System) - aggregates this data …
Aria Bendix
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This is how an Australian businessman and a couple changed the lives of eight year old Divya and her family living in Vadodara
This humanitarian deed with restore your faith in humanity
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A homeless shelter is about to open inside Amazon's headquarters. Its director says 'it's not on corporations' to solve the homelessness problem.
Mary's Place now operates 10 shelters (not including the Amazon space). The nonprofit is known for …
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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US homelessness could shoot up 45% by the end of the year — but these organizations are helping families find relief
The pandemic is pushing hundreds of thousands of Americans who were already living paycheck to payc…
Lisa Desai,Yasmina Hatem,Tam …
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Why mental health and social services are as crucial as physical shelter to address the homelessness crisis
Without support for emotional trauma and substance abuse, homeless populations will continue to ris…
Paul Constant
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I became homeless at 17 after I came out. At 40, I'm now stronger for having survived.
After coming out at 17, the author became homeless. They survived thanks to their queer friends. Th…
Sassafras Lowrey
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Portland will start housing the homeless in tiny pods in people's backyards
Each 200-square-foot pod will have its own one-of-a-kind design by Portland State Univers…
Leanna Garfield
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Jeff Bezos wants to spend $2 billion on education and the homeless. These four cities could use it the most.
Though most of his charitable efforts thus far have been private, Bezos has signaled an interest in…
Aria Bendix
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These People Didn't Recognize Their Own Family Members When They Saw Them On The Street - Here's Why
To learn more about the New York City Rescue Mission's campaign to humanize the homeless, visit Mak…
Aaron Taube
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1 in 10 homeless adults are veterans, here's how you can help them and others stay safe and warm during the polar vortex
Steam rises up on the surface of Lake Michigan, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Chicago. A deadly arct…
John Haltiwanger
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A New York woman admitted to stealing $2 million meant for a homeless shelter she ran and spending it at Bloomingdale's, Ferragamo, and Manolo Blahnik
A woman who ran a homeless shelter in the Bronx has admitted to evading taxes and stealing roughly …
Bianca Chan
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People in Los Angeles are offering to shelter the homeless in tiny backyard homes. It could be solution to a spiraling homelessness crisis.
What's more, the study found that the vast majority of homeless residents - around 96% - stayed in …
Aria Bendix
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Amazon is building a homeless shelter inside its Seattle headquarters - here's a look inside
At the time, Mary's Place had been operating a homeless shelters out of a Travelodge hotel on Amazo…
Aria Bendix
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The president of a non-profit has been accused of stealing state funds from homeless shelters to grow his $22 million real-estate empire
The president of Casa Nueva Vida is accused of secretly renting out his own properties as homeless …
Hannah Towey
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Jeff Bezos donated $100 million to fighting homelessness - and in an unusual move, he's letting the charities control how it's spent
Bezos' scouting process for the recipients of the Day 1 Families Fund grants was also non-tradition…