Housing Instability & Homelessness

Listing of Articles focusing on evictions, foreclosures, relocations/displacement & homelessness.

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Housing Instability & Homelessness Resources

Report Analyzes Evictions and Their Impacts on Low Income People in Seattle

A report by the Seattle Women’s Commission and the Housing Justice Project of the King County Bar Association, Losing Home: The Human Cost of Eviction in Seattle, investigates the policies, demographics, and impacts surrounding evictions in Seattle. Through its analysis of court documents and…

Senate Committee Discusses Overcrowding in Tribal Areas

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a field hearing on August 25 to discuss “Overcrowded Housing and the Impacts on American Indian and Alaska Natives.” Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) represented the committee at the hearing, which was held in the Native Village of Savoonga, AK. Witnesses…

NAEH Publishes Data on State of Homelessness in America

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) added new data on its website regarding the state of homelessness in America. Nationwide, 553,742 people experienced homelessness on a given night in January 2017, representing a 0.7% increase from 2016 but a 14.4% decline from 2007. Of the homeless…

Formerly Incarcerated People Are Nearly 10 Times More Likely to be Homeless

A report by Lucius Couloute of the Prison Policy Initiative, Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people, finds that formerly incarcerated people are nearly ten times more likely to be homeless than the general public. The rate of homelessness for formerly incarcerated people was…