homelessness Archives - Reveal

Three police officers stand behind yellow police-line tape. Behind them, workers in safety vests pack tents and other items into crates.

Police Know Arrests Won’t Fix Homelessness. They Keep Making Them Anyway.

by Melissa Lewis June 23, 2022June 22, 2022

As unhoused people increasingly live in residential neighborhoods, their new neighbors have turned to one place for help in particular: the police.

A police officer stands in the foreground, a rose visible on the butt of their gun. In the background is a houseless person packing up their belongings.

Handcuffed and Unhoused

by Melissa Lewis, Emily Harris, Cynthia Rodriguez, Taki Telonidis, Andy Donohue, Soo Oh, David Rodriguez, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Claire Mullen, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson April 16, 2022April 23, 2022

A hidden side of homelessness: Unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.

A police officer stands in the foreground, a rose visible on the butt of their gun. In the background is a houseless person packing up their belongings.

Handcuffed and Unhoused

by Melissa Lewis, Emily Harris, Cynthia Rodriguez, Taki Telonidis, Soo Oh, Andy Donohue, David Rodriguez, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Claire Mullen, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson December 18, 2021December 18, 2021

As homelessness rises, unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.

All Work. No Pay.

Drug rehab shutters amid coronavirus outbreak, sending residents scrambling

by Shoshana Walter April 3, 2020June 30, 2021

At a Cenikor drug rehab in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, residents were given two days to find a place to live. Some became homeless.