'We trekked the Salt Path while homeless just like the film'

Homelessness Is Not Just a Housing Problem

The very term for the problem seems to imply the solution.  The “homeless” need a home—and thus, housing is the answer for homelessness. It’s a logic that has driven the federal program known as Housing First—based on the idea that taking the homeless off the street and out of shelters is the key to helping them. The term has been used, more broadly, by those advocating for government-subsidized housing more broadly, predicated on the view that …

'We trekked the Salt Path while homeless just like the film'

The couple were made homeless through a no-fault eviction

The story of an ancient social problem.