Trump’s Get-Tough Approach on Homelessness May Sweep Up Veterans

The administration has pledged to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the V.A.’s greatest housing success story.

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Six Convicted in 2017 Fire That Killed 41 Girls in Guatemala Group Home

The girls were locked in a classroom in a government-run group home for at-risk youth. The officials were charged with child abuse, dereliction of duty, manslaughter and other counts.

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Fleeing Domestic Violence, and the Russian Advance

“I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border with Russia. “But this is how it turned out.”

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Maryland Closed a Baltimore Addiction Program. For Some Patients, Little Has Changed.

Patients of PHA Healthcare, a treatment program in Baltimore, were housed in drug-ridden buildings where many overdosed, an investigation reported last year. Some are still there.

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Retirees, Get Ready to Need Long-Term Care. Here’s What to Know.

Demand and costs for care are rising at the same time that a labor shortage threatens to worsen. How can you plan for this need now?

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Trump Seeks to End Permanent Supportive Housing for the Chronically Homeless

More than 300,000 people live in such housing, all chronically homeless and disabled. Many are veterans.

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What Permanent Supportive Housing Can, and Can’t, Do for New Yorkers

The housing model provides a stable residence that formerly homeless people with mental illness and addictions can’t “fail out” of, though some describe feeling stuck.

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Six Things to Know About Permanent Supportive Housing

It has become one of the most common approaches to reducing chronic homelessness for Americans with mental illness and addiction.

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The Synagogue Massacre That Never Happened

They were two troubled young men, hurtling toward an atrocity. One was the grandson of a Holocaust survivor.

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To Finally Close Rikers, Panel Suggests Making It Someone’s Only Job

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission appointed by the City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams.

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