Tag: homelessness
Op-ed: Students and the streets: bridging the divide in Riverside’s opioid...
Brandon Ta is a third-year biology major at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), where he is conducting research in the MediHack Lab on...
Riverside’s encampment ban is not going to solve homelessness
The Riverside City Council passed a 6-to-1 ban on homeless encampments on public property within a two-block radius of schools, city parks and homeless...
California’s criminalization of homelessness is a hateful policy the Supreme Court...
The unhoused are up next on the Supreme Court’s chopping block as they agreed to hear a decision made by the Ninth Circuit Court...
Homeless, not hopeless: Proposition 1 will aid the unhoused
Homelessness is growing at an exponential rate in California; a trend that did not start recently or suddenly. In the last two years, homelessness...
California’s unhoused population should not be left to die in the...
The first two weeks of the new year have brought strong winter rain storms to California. The bomb cyclone, that caused mass destruction across...
The University of California should be doing more to combat housing...
Being a college student is stressful enough with the many sacrifices people must undertake in order to succeed and finish their degree. Housing insecurity...
California’s proposed anti-gun violence office is a shot of false hope
California has some of the most stringent gun-control laws in the country, and yet it can’t seem to get out from under the pandemic...
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Project Roomkey has been lethargic so far, but...
The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly frightening to many. Not only is it highly contagious, it is also far more deadly than many other illnesses,...
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the homeless in the US
Amidst the COVID-19 madness, many people in America fear for their well-being and future. One of the groups most often overlooked during...
Social Services panel discusses alleviating homelessness in Southern California
As homelessness rises in Southern California, the Dean’s Brand Ambassadors and UCR’s School of Public Policy (SPP) hosted a panel of policy...