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For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — For more than five years, Helen Cruz lived on the streets of Grants Pass. A small, rural town of roughly 40,000 people, the city has now found itself at the center of a ...
Grants Pass, Oregon, sought to impose anti-camping, anti-sleeping, and parking exclusion ordinances to dissuade homeless individuals from residing on its public land.. The Oregon Law Center, which supports low-income Oregonians, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Debra Blake (1959–2021) in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in October 2018. [4]
California officials had a strong interest in the case, City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, as the state grapples with some of the highest rates of homelessness and housing costs in the United States.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals expanded protections for homeless people sleeping outdoors in a decision with ramifications for other cities, including L.A.
PATH building, Los Angeles. Created under the McKinney-Vento Act, The PATH (Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness) Program, is a formula grant program that funds the 50 States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and four U.S. Territories to support service delivery to individuals with serious mental illnesses, as well as individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders ...
Rather, the order is a logical step for Newsom, who called himself the state's “homeless czar," said Wesley Hussey, a political science professor at California State University, Sacramento.
In addition, more than 220,000 public school (K–12) students in California experienced homelessness in 2020–21. [28] In FY 2016 the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) began funding the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP), "a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness."