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En Los Ángeles, Sacramento y San Diego, californianos sin hogar describen sus experiencias durante el último año, en el que ha aumentado la aplicación de la prohibición de acampar. Marisa Kendall, Aaron Schrank & Lisa Halverstadt CalMatters Deadra Walicki lleva más de una década viviendo en el mismo lugar: un trozo de...
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Marisa Kendall, Aaron Schrank & Lisa Halverstadt CalMatters Deadra Walicki has lived in the same spot for more than a decade: a cracked patch of asphalt in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, squeezed between a boarded-up grocery store and Amtrak tracks so close that passing trains shake the ground beneath her tent. The...
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President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as the...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services FREMONT, California — Shortly before midnight Feb. 11, the Fremont City Council passed an ordinance which criminalizes homelessness as a misdemeanor offense with penalties of up to 6 months in jail and fines of $1000. The new ordinance is one of the harshest such...
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Hoy, AARP rinde homenaje a una mujer de California cuyo viaje a los EE. UU. la inspiro a abrir un refugio para personas sin hogar. Hace décadas, Betty Kwan Chinn escapo de la persecución y la falta de vivienda en China, y huyo a Hong Kong y luego a Estados Unidos....
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Today AARP is honoring a California woman whose journey to the U.S. inspired her to open a shelter for people experiencing homelessness. Betty Kwan Chinn escaped persecution and homelessness in China decades ago and fled to Hong Kong and then the U.S. Chinn said many people welcomed her with open arms,...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters A pesar de mudarse a su nuevo alojamiento hace apenas un mes, Darlene Pizarro y su perro, Angel, ya son clientes habituales del parque canino local. El nuevo lugar de Pizarro no es exactamente un vecindario de la ciudad y el lugar donde vive no es...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Despite moving in to her new digs just a month ago, Darlene Pizarro and her white dog, Angel, are already regulars at the local dog run. Pizarro’s new place is not quite a city neighborhood and where she lives isn’t quite a home, but a tiny...
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According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, around half a million individuals nationwide are currently experiencing homelessness. Yet three cities have been able to make dramatic gains in tackling the problem with important lessons for the rest of the country. Among these lessons: housing and homelessness...