Poverty and Homelessness

Watch as unsheltered Californians capture moments from their everyday lives — and talk about how they struggle to stay safe and healthy under circumstances that have often grown only more hazardous.

As the coronavirus pandemic unfolded in Oregon, some cities and counties worked quickly to provide areas where unsheltered people could safely quarantine.But in Jackson County, shelters have closed or limited their capacity, and people who are homeless are encouraged to sleep near a greenway where it’s illegal to camp.

SNAP benefits boosted in Oregon and California

Finding food has become especially challenging for low-income and unhoused people recently, as food banks and other assistance programs change the ways…

A winter shelter in Ashland closed early because of the coronavirus pandemic. Like other homeless shelters across the country, organizers were concerned…

Problems in Oregon's foster care system in recent years demonstrated the severe shortage of places to house children who have been removed from their…

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration sees a potential “silver lining” to leasing thousands of hotel rooms for homeless people to stop the spread of…

It's one thing to watch the stock market crash because of the coronavirus pandemic.  It's quite another to watch your own bank account slide into the red…

A winter storm in southern Oregon brought temperatures down into the 20s this week, causing people to seek shelter in emergency winter centers.But when…

Life is tough enough for any teenager, with childhood dissolving away and adulthood not yet formed.  It's that much harder for a teenager emerging from…

The Arcata Playhouse production of "A Woman's Place is in Her Home" is more than theater.  Because the seed for the production is a series of interviews…

The median home price in the city of San Francisco is now $1.4 Million.  Most of us can only look at that information and wonder "what happened?" Conor…