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Once-homeless vets offer help and hope to warriors on the streets

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McPherson Square in Kensington, Philadelphia, is home to a library and a playground. It’s often referred to as “Needle Park.” During the day, young kids run around the park. In the evening hours, though, individuals use the streetlights and benches as safe places to inject. (Julia Lerner/University of Maryland)

Philadelphia hit homelessness and drug addiction head on

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City of Miami Department of Solid Waste Management workers use a grapple truck to remove materials from a homeless encampment in Overtown. Courts determined in 1992 that the city was criminalizing “life-sustaining activities” such as sleeping in public and placed the city under a landmark consent decree known as the Pottinger Agreement in 1998, allowing the federal judiciary to monitor the city’s treatment of its homeless population for over 20 years. The decree was lifted last year. (Nailah Summers)

Encampment clearing raises concerns about a return to Miami’s bad old...

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Project Roomkey, the Golden State’s grand experiment

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Typically, when encampments are cleared, the residents just set up temporarily nearby. On Sept. 5, 2019, the residents of the L Street NE encampment moved down the block, to the foot of a new luxury apartment building. (Julia Lerner/University of Maryland)

Tensions rise when businesses, homeless people share the same space

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Podcast: The last homeless veteran?

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What is an encampment? Don’t ask Massachusetts

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Life in a homeless encampment in the shadow of the University...

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Homeless women face extra health, safety worries

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In Ocala, strict policing pushes the homeless out of sight

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