Our Neighbors On The Streets: A Social Justice Perspective

CREATE AN ACCOUNT LOG.IN CONTENTS CLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE INFO | ADVERTISING | CONTACT US 68.5° Home News A&E Opinion Events Living Food & Drink Sports Outdoors Classifieds Obits insider fb twit google >>  News  >>  Features >>  In Print  >>  News © Santa Maria Times Sue Ehrlich Grand Jury Investigates Demise of Lompoc Community Housing Finds That Chronic Lack of Oversight Killed North County Agency Thursday, June 21, 2012 by   NICK WELSH  ( CONTACT ) Article Tools  Print friendly  E-mail story  Tip Us Off  Comments   ( 7 )  Share Article The Santa Barbara Grand Jury issued a blandly blistering indictment on this year’s collapse of the Lompoc Housing and Community Development Corporation ​— ​the biggest provider by far of affordable housing in the county’s most impoverished city ​— ​blaming a...

www.PovertyInsights.org GET UPDATES FROM JOEL JOHN ROBERTS Is a Homelessness Bill of Rights Just a Bill of Goods? Posted: 06/22/2012 8:42 am React Inspiring Motivating Moving Scary Outrageous Amazing Innovative Helpful Follow Civil Rights  ,  Homelessness  ,  Poverty  ,  Los Angeles  ,  Third World America  ,  Rhode Island  , Impact News SHARE THIS STORY 8 20 0 Submit this story The political center has become a precarious place for lawmakers who want to embrace compromise. Extreme views from both ends of the political spectrum seem to dominate policies these days. This same political tug-of-war is also occurring in the world of homelessness. While many cities around the country are passing  anti-homelessness laws  to push people experiencing homelessness out of their communities, one state is actually passin...