by Pat Hartman | Jun 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
A spokesperson for the National Association of Home Builders says: American tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber have caused housing prices in the United States to jump by an average of $9,000 per home… For every $1,000 increase in the price of a house, 150,000 people...
by Pat Hartman | Jun 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Austin, Texas, where House the Homeless is located, has something in common with 18 other American cities and Toronto, Canada. All are finalists in a competition where victory could result in chaos and misery. Last September, the marketing behemoth known as Amazon...
by Pat Hartman | Jun 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
House the Homeless has been looking at the party of the year, the celebration in Windsor, U.K., on May 19, of the marriage of Meghan Markle to Prince Harry. The police had been preparing since the beginning of the year, when a council leader called for removal from...
by Pat Hartman | Jun 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Speaking of public spaces and big doings, too often the official response to such events can be “excluding and abusive” says Richard R. Troxell, House the Homeless president and co-founder. “This is no longer the America that I hold in my heart and in my mind.” In the...
by Pat Hartman | May 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
When the Super Bowl took place in Minneapolis earlier this year, the city seems to have made an effort to minimize the trauma experienced by people experiencing homelessness. Officials explained that street people were steered away from the central festivities — not...
by Pat Hartman | May 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) made public the amounts that homeless assistance programs would receive in each state. HUD Secretary Ben Carson spoke of the “array of interventions” supplied by the department’s Continuum of Care grant...
