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Dozens of homeless people will soon take the stand in a Sacramento, Calif. courtroom to share their experiences of having their personal possessions seized by local authorities.

The rare case highlights the often untold struggles of homeless Americans attempting to create makeshift homes for themselves in a climate where law enforcement policies target them and their rights are ambiguous.

The civil class action lawsuit brought before federal court represents all homeless people in Sacramento whose possessions were taken in police sweeps since 2005, The Sacramento Bee reports. The period of time includes the highly publicized closure of the "Tent City" homeless encampment.

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Economists tell us the Great Recession is over. Try telling that to someone still looking for work and even a place to live. Thanks to the recession, the face of homelessness is changing.

The number of families with no place to live is on the rise across the region, meaning more and more children are homeless, through no fault of their own.

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Tanya McDowell, the homeless mother arrested for allegedly sending her son to a Norwalk school while not living in the city during the last half of the 2010 school year, went to court for the second time Wednesday, but she did not have to go before a judge.

McDowell's attorney, Darnell Crosland, said he decided to waive her appearance after talking over the felony case with the Norwalk courthouse's lead prosecutor. McDowell is charged with first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny.

Before she was to appear in court, Connecticut Parent's Union founder Gwen Samuel held a press conference to reveal she was presenting Supervisory Assistant State's Attorney Suzanne Vieux an online petition calling for the dismissal of McDowell's charges. Click here for the complete article.

The soldier — a husband and father who had been deployed multiple times — recently came back from his latest tour in Afghanistan to find that his wife had lost her job. To make matters worse, he was having trouble finding full-time work.

With mounting financial woes, the family faced a life on the streets.

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The Law Center recently coordinated an effort that brought together the nation’s leading domestic human rights experts for a Congressional briefing on Capitol Hill. The experts, including our very own Executive Director, Maria Foscarinis, discussed the recent review of the United States by the UN Human Rights Council. View video of the briefing and hear the experts discuss the human rights review process, the Council’s report and recommendations, our government’s responses, and the role of Congress in ensuring human rights are enjoyed to the fullest here at home.
For more information on the human rights review process click here.

The federal government's multi-agency approach to help the homeless is often confused, according to a recently released report that catalogues the hundreds of different ways the government squanders taxes through waste, overlap, fragmentation and bureaucracy.

The Government Accountability Office report found that in 2009, federal agencies spent about $2.9 billion on more than 20 programs that targeted homelessness. If that money were to be targeted toward the building of homes, at say, $200,000 per home, it could theoretically produce 145,000 houses.

"Take that money directly and give them sort of a voucher so they can go get housing on their own, or get some mental health benefits," Brian Darling, director of government studies at the Heritage Foundation suggested. "But the way it is now when you have all of these different government agencies administering the same program, you have government waste."

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US Senator Scott Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, is urging President Obama and congressional leaders from both parties in a letter to reconsider spending priorities at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Brown wrote that homelessness in the Bay State and across the nation is up due to the foreclosure crisis, and noted that families with children are the fastest-growing segment of new homeless.

“HUD Programs provide rental assistance for low income citizens and other homelessness programs,” Brown wrote. “These rental programs are vital to Massachusetts and should be protected at a time when the Massachusetts unemployment rate is about eight percent.”

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New York City sent letters to more than 15,000 individuals and families on Thursday warning them they could no longer expect the government rent subsidy that helped them move out of homeless shelters. Officials said they believed the cuts would force 4,400 families back into the shelter system.

The city blamed the move on proposed state budget cuts that are set to slice tens of millions of dollars from the program, but opponents accused the city of playing fast with the lives of its most vulnerable residents, canceling a program that has drawn mixed reviews, in a bid to spark pressure on state officials to restore the funds ahead of an April 1 budget deadline.

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The city's Department of Homeless services says it fears it is going to have to terminate the Advantage program, which places homeless families in apartments and helps them stay there by paying most of the rent for up to two years.

"The devastating part of this for families is that the governor is proposing to pull the rug from underneath people who are already in the community," said Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond.

If $65 million in Advantage funding is cut from the state budget, the city says it will have to terminate Advantage starting next week, while 3,000 families are looking for apartments through the program.

"Some of them are days away from moving and they are not going to be able to do so because of this cut," said Diamond.

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A large encampment of homeless people in Honolulu is once again being told to hit the road. As reported by the New York Times, state redevelopment officials told the 100 residents of the encampment that their homes -- 75 or so tents lining the sidewalks and park near the University of Hawaii medical school in Kakaako -- will be torn down if they're still standing on March 15.

This is not the first time the homeless have been shuffled around in Honolulu -- and it's not likely to be the last. The Times quotes Doran J. Porter, executive director of the Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance in Hawaii, on the ineffectiveness of constantly relocating the homeless population:

"My concern is that they need to have solutions of where these folks are going to go," [Porter] said. "We can't keep kicking them out of one place where they go to another. That's why they are there in the first place: they were kicked out of Waikiki and the beaches. This has been going on for years."

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Marin County’s officials are failing to address the county’s critical need for more permanent emergency shelter housing for homeless families, according to Marin County’s latest grand jury report.

The report, titled “Sheltering the Homeless: A Hole in the Safety Net,” alleges that although families and children appear to be the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population in Marin, the county has done little to provide support for them. The report demands the county implement a permanent emergency shelter program no later than next winter.

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In 2010, John Hieftje and First Ward Council member Sandi Smith both ran for re-election and patted themselves on the back for “doubling beds at the homeless shelter.” If you count a chair as a bed, Hieftje and Smith were telling the truth. In November of 2009, Ann Arbor City Council made an “emergency allocation” of $159,000 to “deal” with homelessness. I wrote about it here. A one-time allocation. Then, City Council suggested Ann Arbor residents “pray to end homelessness.” Suffice it to say, in a city heralded as one of the most politically progressive in the country, our elected officials resemble Ebenezer Scrooges---pre-Ghost of Christmas Future visit. “Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?” Winter 2011? No emergency allocation. Not a peep from John Hieftje, Sandi Smith or any of the other Council members, warm and cozy in their Council chambers, obsessing how to pay for skinning the Larcom Building so it will match the new City Hall, and looking forward to their new Council chambers when renovations are finished.

Homelessness advocates have told stories of city and county officials threatening to pull funding from services for the homeless to retaliate against advocates who are overly vocal on behalf of the needs of the growing homeless population. The panhandling problem in Ann Arbor merited the formation of a special task force, headed by First Ward Council member Sabra Briere. In the many months her special committee has been meeting (if it has) Briere has not shared updates with residents. She is scheduled to update Council in March 2011.

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Fifth-grader Nick Lara sleeps at night in a twin-size bed he shares with the 7-year-old daughter of his dad's girlfriend. Above the children, his honor roll report cards are proudly displayed, tacked to the walls of the motel they live in.

The family lives in a 150-square-foot room along Interstate 35E in northwest Dallas in one of several extended-stay motels with families who send their children to Arlington Park Community Learning Center.

A third of the school's students are considered homeless, children who live in motels, shelters or cars or who sleep on a borrowed couch.

With only nine children considered above the poverty mark, Arlington Park demonstrates the extra lengths schools must go to in meeting the needs of children whose families struggle to survive. It is also a startling reminder of homeless students, whom educators say they are seeing in greater numbers.

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