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PBS news hour. California's homeless encampment crackdown draws criticism from health experts
California is home to the nation's largest homeless population. Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose administration has spent more than $20 billion on the issue, recently urged cities and counties to pass laws that effectively ban \"dangerous and unhealthy\" encampments. While some welcomed the move, others worry about the health impacts of such measures on the state's homeless population. Stephanie Sy reports.
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The Archaeology of the Homed and the Unhomed
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The first comprehensive discussion of the historical archaeology of homelessness
In a time when the idea of home has become central to living the American dream, The Archaeology of the Homed and the Unhomed brings to the forefront the concept of homelessness. The book points out that homelessness remains underexplored in historical archaeology, a fact which may reflect societal biases and marginalization, and it provides the field's first comprehensive discussion of the subject.
Daniel Sayers argues that the unhomed and the home have been inherently interconnected in the real world across the past several centuries. Sayers builds a conceptual model that focuses on this dynamic and uses it to generate new insights into pre‒Civil War communities of Maroons and Indigenous Americans, Great Depression‒era hobo communities, and Midwest farmsteads. In doing so, he highlights the social complexities, ambiguities, and significance of the home and the unhomed in the archaeological record. Using a variety of data sources including documentary records and material culture and drawing on extensive fieldwork, Sayers illuminates how homelessness is created, reproduced, and disparaged by the dominant culture.
The book also emphasizes the importance of applied archaeology. Through these studies, Sayers contends that activist archaeologists have a role-and responsibility-to share their knowledge to help policy makers and stakeholders understand the unhomed, homelessness, and the American experience in this area.
A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney and Krysta Ryzewski
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The bridge home
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
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Warrior up! Episode 5, Isaac Garcia : it's all relative
Warrior Up! is a documentary series that follows Indigenous youth across Turtle Island who are standing up and making change, transforming their communities, their lands and their lives for the better. Episode 5: What if instead of calling people living on the streets ‘homeless’, we called them ‘our relatives’? And what if we treated them more as we do our own family? That’s what sixteen-year-old Dakota/ Ojibwe warrior Isaac Garcia has done since the age of ten. Isaac rallies his classmates to collect essentials and pack them into ‘Blessing Bags’, then organizes his family to bring the bags to those who need them. Host Joshua Odjick joins Issac to pack the bags before they can distribute them on St. Paul, Minnesota’s streets. Along the way, Isaac brings Joshua to train at his part-time barista job at Indigenous Roots Cafe and to visit an outdoor art installation called “Never Homeless Before 1492” that commemorates the state’s largest homeless encampment that was populated by Indigenous people until its recent removal. As Isaac and his family pass out the Blessing Bags on the city’s streets, he shares his future dream to eventually become mayor of St. Paul, so he better help the city’s unsheltered residents.
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Just under the clouds
Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.
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Cooking up a revolution
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the City San Francisco waged a war with the homeless. During this period over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply handing out free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book uses the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of urban politics, homelessness, and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides both activists, students, and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these process.During the late 1980s and early 1990s the City San Francisco waged a war with the homeless. During this period over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply handing out free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book uses the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of urban politics, homelessness, and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides both activists, students, and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these process.
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Different days
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
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Characterization of the homeless people affected by tuberculosis in Brazil, 2015 to 2021
To describe the sociodemographic and clinical-epidemiological profile of homeless people affected by tuberculosis in Brazil, from 2015 to 2021. This is a descriptive, population-based epidemiological study, carried out from the tuberculosis notification records in the Brazilian homeless people, available in the Notifiable Diseases Information System. There was a predominance of male people, of mixed race/color, aged between 30 and 49 years, with (in) complete elementary education and who did not receive social benefits. Regarding the clinical-epidemiological aspects, the type of entry as a new case predominated, with the pulmonary form of the disease, directly observed treatment not performed, with loss of follow-up. The prevalence of alcohol and illicit drug use stands out, in addition to the large number of people who used tobacco. This scenario represents a great challenge, since the presence of tuberculosis prevails in this population, especially as a result of numerous risk factors and situations of vulnerability arising from being homeless. Thus, it is necessary to plan and improve actions that consider the specificities of the group, through inter- and intra-sectoral strategies, focusing on the articulation between public health services and social assistance.
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