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From the mayor’s blog:

Yesterday was a low point in the City’s hospitality. Badly supervised City employees callously destroyed the possessions of some homeless people who had chosen to camp illegally and for a extended period of…

A gathering planned this morning in St. Louis City Hall’s grand rotunda will launch an initiative designed to help people teetering on the edge of homelessness and by rapidly finding housing for those recently evicted from their homes.

St. Louis has received…

When I was at the Dayton Daily News, I did a lot of writing about homelessness.

Last year over the holidays I produced this video.

The numbers and information at the end of the video refer to…

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Nebraska has been in the national news for weeks over the law it enacted in February to protect the welfare of abandoned children.

Probably no other “safe haven” law in the nation has received more than a fraction of the publicity.…

Federal homelessness czar Philip Mangano came to talk to us today about encouraging data — nationally and in St. Louis — which show steep reductions in the numbers of chronically homeless people on the street — reportedly down 20 percent here…

Last week, Bonita White primped for the prom just like millions of other young women this party season. She had a bevy of fashion advisers, a glamorous gown and ever-present paparazzi clicking away.

Except that this Roosevelt High School senior ended…