by Craig Nash | Dec 21, 2023 | Feature-, News
At least every other year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) conducts a “point-in-time” (PIT) national count of people experiencing homelessness and presents those findings to Congress. The 2023 report released last week found a steep increase...
by Zach Dawes Jr | May 24, 2023 | Feature-, News
Homelessness in the U.S. increased for the seventh straight year, according to an annual report from the National Alliance to End Homelessness published May 16. There were 582,462 unhoused people accounted for during the January 2022 point-in-time count conducted by...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 27, 2022 | Opinion
Every preacher should be so lucky as to get in the rotation for guest ministers at a non-denominational beach chapel. Holden Beach Chapel is my happy spot, a beautiful chapel on a barrier island on North Carolina’s southern coast. Once each year, usually in April, I...
by Alyssa Aldape | Aug 6, 2021 | Opinion
A Black woman has saved us once again. The moratorium on evictions in the U.S. expired at midnight on July 31, and Congress had no plans to resolve the issue before their six-week break. While life post-vaccine has returned to a sort of normal, the pandemic is not...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 30, 2021 | News
More than half a million people in the U.S. were homeless in early January 2020, according to a U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report published last month. The 580,466 people counted during HUD’s annual point-in-time assessment is a 2.2% (12,751-person) rise...