by admin | Apr 2, 2020 | Featured, homeless, News, Politics
A Trump administration rule change affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was announced in December 2019 and set to trigger on April 1st. It would have changed the eligibility rules for the program and made 700,000 people lose their benefits....
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured, homeless
The official count of homeless people in Dallas, Texas as of March 2017 is over 3,500 people, with at least 1,000 of those unsheltered. But it’s difficult to get a good count; the homeless population is not a cooperative one to census. Which has been a problem...
by admin | Apr 4, 2017 | Featured, homeless, LGBT Youth
It’s difficult to find hard statistics on homeless youth in the United States for many reasons, not all of them obvious. But the current educated guess is in the neighborhood of 1.6 million. (Youth, in this instance, means under 19 years old). And...