One More Wear Foundation is a charity focused on distributing clothing to youth and young adults who are struggling with poverty in the Greater Toronto Area. The charity is surrounded by the ideology that having accessible clothing can provide employment…
Homeless in America: Man travelled across the country to give a voice to the homeless
BY: JESSICA BEUKER On August 12, 2016, recent Boise State graduate, Justin Doering, set off on a three-month, 14,000-mile journey across 34 states. The reason? To humanize America’s homeless through a project called Fifty Sandwiches. Fifty Sandwiches is a non-profit,…
The POD Initiative is creating a tiny home village for homeless women, and it could be just the beginning
BY: TIM O’NEAL Portland, Oregon, like many large cities, struggles with supporting its homeless population in a dignified way. According to Multnomah County, there are almost four-thousand homeless individuals sleeping on the streets on any given night in and around…
Taking photos of homeless people without their consent is not art – it’s exploitation
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY Recently a friend of mine asked if I would be willing to help her on a university paper she had to write. In post secondary education there always seems to be strength in numbers; we always like…
Oakland artist is building tiny homes to fight homelessness.
BY: MARIYA GUZOVA Since 2014, the number of homeless people on the streets in America has dropped by about 40,000 people. This steady and incredible decline in homelessness stems from a new wave of thinking amongst the people who are…
This trans model was disowned by her family, and the Internet adopted her
BY: SWIKAR OLI Tschan Andrews doesn’t want you to see her as a vanguard for black trans models. “It’s not a trend. It was always here,” Andrews tells Dazed. Indeed, since Paris is Burning thrust the struggle and celebration of…
Photographer left his cushy accounting job to capture the soul of urban homelessness
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Photos by Lee Jeffries Accountant by profession, self taught photographer by design, Lee Jeffries left his longtime career to capture the soul that breathes through our city streets. He uses the homeless as his primary focus, casting a light…
LA takes a radical new approach to combating homelessness—actually helping them
BY: SWIKAR OLI While some cities tackle their homeless crisis by removing them from public spaces, Los Angeles is going with a totally novel approach to addressing the rapidly-growing issue—actually helping them. Over the next year, the city has pledged…
Meet the vigilante who’s saving the lives of orphans in Ukraine
BY: SAREEMA HUSAIN “Don’t touch me, just let me die,” the child barks. Gennadiy Mokhnenko stands above him, peering down. The child is laying on the floor, arms and legs contorted and it is clear he cannot walk. Track marks…
Meet the model, actor and photographer who was homeless for six years
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The word “homeless” conjures up a very particular image. A homeless man’s clothing is tattered, torn, and covered in whatever grime resides in the cracks and corners of the sidewalk. The smell of alcohol and body odour…
This shipping container home was built in just three days to house the homeless
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN Shivering bodies cloaked with torn newspapers and curled up beside urban buildings is the image I see when the word “homelessness” comes to mind. Sadly, this image has become too familiar. Every night, over 100 million people…
High rent is forcing Las Vegas families to take to the sewers
By: Jack M. Beneath the glitz and glamour of what is arguably some of the most expensive real estate in the world, beneath the playground of the high-rolling mega-rich gamblers who fly in for the weekend in their private jets,…
This city is using tiny house villages to fight homelessness
BY: TYLER FYFE It’s 5:30pm on a Friday and on the sidewalk a line is starting to build outside of the Good Shepherd Centre. Frayed blue tarps clipped to backpacks, and calloused hands clutch soggy cardboard with bleeding marker ink.…