Housing

A pandemic, extreme weather, and new city mandates create a perfect storm for thousands of people without a place to call home.

A tenants’ union in Kansas City, MO, works to address housing insecurity on multiple fronts — from tenant support to changes in citywide housing policy.

While employment numbers have stabilized, financial hardship leaves many in a state of housing insecurity.

Rappahannock Food Pantry in Virginia helps low-income residents survive the rising costs of living.

A network in Western New York is helping residents overcome barriers to connect to resources

NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania provides home repairs and safety modifications for older adults.

Four cousins honor the legacy of their grandparents by feeding and caring for people experiencing homelessness in Austin.

A nonprofit in Kentucky helps young single moms achieve their goals, with additional help during the pandemic.

Using her skills as a trapeze artist, Erin Carey became a wildland firefighter to give back to her community.

Charity Chandler-Cole envisions foster care in Los Angeles as a restorative, healing space for young people of color.

A growing Austin-based program provides free hotel rooms and new paths for survivors of domestic violence.

Every week for the past eight years, Janet Matzen has been cooking as a form of service and activism.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Elise Cutini led her Silicon Valley-based nonprofit to rapidly raise and distribute funds to address the mounting needs of the foster youth they serve.

Sin posibilidades de trabajar, las trabajadoras domésticas y los jornaleros luchan por sobrevivir a las consecuencias económicas de la pandemia de COVID-19.

Unable to work, Latino domestic workers and day laborers struggle to survive the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rebuilding his life after addiction and homelessness, Richard Barber turns to service for his neighbors.

The East Oakland Collective activates its city-wide network to support at-risk and underserved communities through the pandemic.

A photographer sets out to find two friends living on the streets of downtown Austin amid the pandemic.

A UBI pilot program offers transition-age foster youth $1000 a month. We talk to the county supervisor that started it about where the idea came from and where it could be heading.

Amy Price is fundraising for Austin’s homeless in an altered landscape, and from a distance.

Austin Doerr is trying to hold on to his family’s small business in the wake of stay-at-home orders.

Homeless, living with HIV, and lacking antiretroviral medication, Bella Casebolt is fighting to survive.

For the president and CEO of Samaritan House, protecting at-risk residents during the COVID-19 crisis requires vigilance and hope.

For many Texans concerned during the COVID-19 crisis, the 211 hotline offers verified information, reassurance, resources, and compassion.

For Oakland’s unhoused population, survival during the COVID-19 crisis becomes harder by the day, but advocate Derrick Soo isn’t slowing down.

Mutual aid organizations are forming across the country to fill in the gaps for their communities affected by COVID-19

“You guys are like heroes for the city,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler says when he addresses the group set to take an annual census of people experiencing homelessness.