In this brilliant editorial video, John Oliver gets to the root of the problem with the issue of homelessness, which is that people dehumanize the homeless to the point where services to prevent or cure homelessness get ignored or worse yet, voted down, making it impossible for services to lift people out of homelessness to exist. He […]
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Living in crisis on the streets of Portland
“It’s been nearly four decades since modern homelessness worked its way into our collective awareness. Unlike the Civil War or the Great Depression that caused massive waves of ‘itinerant poor,’ the rise in homelessness in the 1980s was borne of social politics and global economics. And in just 40 years, it has reached crisis proportions,” […]