Are Prison Release Practices Creating Homelessness?

In California’s largest cities, one senses that the number of homeless people continues to grow, whatever the interventions to prevent it.

But some of the more commonly cited reasons for that growth don’t explain the whole story.

The closure of state mental hospitals created a major wave of homelessness throughout America, but that was decades […]

Terminally Ill and Homeless: Saving a Death

We all live in fear of that moment. You know the one – when your nice, but kind of formal, doctor rolls over on his stool to tell you the results of your biopsy. Before the words even leave his lips, you know. You know it’s bad, and your brain flees, backing away into a […]