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...

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...

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...

Recently a letter to the editor, written by House the Homeless president Richard R. Troxell, was published by the Austin American-Statesman. In it, Richard praised the forward-looking aspirations of mayor Steve Adler, who holds the totally reasonable belief that...

One might think that enough had been said about San Francisco’s peculiarities as an increasingly uninhabitable city. It paints an ugly picture of the possibilities faced by other cities. Amongst all this, there is a bright spot. The rent control ordinance has some...

Drawing from the investigations and experiences of several dedicated journalists, House the Homeless has published several recent posts that try to get to the bottom of what the heck is going on in San Francisco, and has still not ticked everything off the list. A...

The San Francisco housing shortage is a nightmare stew of complicated ingredients including but not limited to geographical limitations, rent control, a shrinking SRO pool, the disastrous Airbnb model, short-term rental exceptions, OMI evictions, landlords whose...

House the Homeless has been using San Francisco as a mirror to reflect many aspects of urban life that exist now, or soon will, in other American cities. We looked at the single-room occupancy scene, the short-term rental rules, Airbnb, “owner move in” evictions, ...

San Francisco is one of the cities that the rest of the nation looks to for an example, whether good or bad. If the affordable housing crisis were a science problem, the city would be one big petri dish. Single room occupancy units and the depredations of Airbnb are...

San Francisco, like Los Angeles, is important for its “bellwether” quality. Both West Coast cities tend to manifest societal problems before the rest of the country, and sometimes they come up with solutions that the rest of America can look to for an example. What...