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• The Daily Report

  National Number of Homeless Drops Despite Foreclosure Crisis

  Kathryn Kondracki | Thu, Jul 31st, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: homeless, kat kondracki, michael stoops, hud, housing first, chronically homeless | 1

  The total number of homeless Americans drops approximately 12 percent, according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development annual study. 

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• NAC News

  Next American City Issue 19 Preview!

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, May 28th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, philadelphia, detroit, building, homeless, brooklyn, katrina, research, taxpayers, events, next american city, schools, issue 19, issue preview, summer issue, next issue | 0

  Our new issue hits shelves on June 1 - just a few days away! Issue 19, “The New School,” features stories on New Oreleans’ Charity Hospital, Co-op schools in Brooklyn, Demolition in Detroit, Homelessness in L.A., Escalators in Philadelphia and much more! Also, interviews with Wendy Walters, Jake Dobkin and David Wilson. Here’s a little preview of what’s to come!

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• The Daily Report

  Results of Seattle’s Test of Automatic Toilets Underwhelming

  Evan Miller | Tue, May 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: environment, seattle, evan miller, homeless, the new argument, money, alley, taxpayers, paris, luxury, crack, restaurants, parks, toilet | 0

  A test gone awry brings the end to a trial contract between the city of Seattle and a German manufacturer of high-tech automatic toilets. But is such an abrupt end to a pilot program designed to quell public urination and defecation necessary? Surely these silver self-cleaning cylindrical facilities were not the boon the city was expecting, but were they really the bane? The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.

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• Headlines

  Martin Luther King Remembered, Public-Housing Not Remembered, New Orleans Economic Immunity, More

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Apr 4th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: environment, hillary clinton, news, obama, barack obama, headlines, clinton, infrastructure, foreclosure, architecture, green, homeless, mortgage, boston, architects, katrina, foreclosures, beijing, japan, janet speyrer, oakland, bronx, new york mets, kyoto, dr. janet speyrer, new york yankees, boston red sox, martin luther king jr. | 0

  America evaluates change since Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, democratic presidential candidates still ignoring key city issues, economist Janet Speyrer offers insight on how recession may or may not impact New Orleans, Kyoto passes new accord and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  Denver mortgage woes, L.A. mayor’s skid-row fiasco, Jackson’s portrait, MORE

  David Anderson | Wed, Apr 2nd, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: news, david anderson, headlines, downtown, crime, energy, foreclosure, homeless, atlanta, construction, mortgage, police, denver, alphonso jackson, dollar, churches, founder, skid row | 0

  Mortgage defaults force Denver exodus, protestors interrupt Los Angeles mayor at Skid Row announcement, a silent killer stalks world of urban farming, former HUD secretary Alphonso Jackson forgets to pack painted portrait on his way out and a developer’s mixed-use project pays homage to Savannah’s roots. This and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  What Elections have become, Outsourcing to America, the $1 Bus, Cheap Housing, Safety, and more

  David Anderson | Wed, Mar 26th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: obama, david anderson, clinton, seattle, homeless, construction, bus, alphonso jackson, toilet, dollar, canada, dallas, missouri, new york, vancouver, whopper, crane, airline, tent city | 0

  A “Whopper”, the infamous Alphonso Jackson, Canadians outsourcing to Kansas City?, $1 fares from Toronto to New York, demolition in the Tent City, the burden of housing illegal immigrants, increased safety regulations for city construction, and proper disposal of “public waste.”

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• The Daily Report

  Monika Thomas: San Francisco’s Professional Homeless Sex Talk Radio Host

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Jan 9th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: San Francisco | Tags: jeffrey hill, san francisco, homeless, sex talk radio host, housesitting, sexploration with monika, sf guardian, monika thomas | 1

  A friend from college called me a few years ago, during one of the coldest winters in recent memory, to tell me about a brilliant scheme he was working on. He was talking about free flights to anywhere in the U.S., and that he needed fast-food trash to make it happen. It seems silly to me now, but these “brilliant schemes” were what made my college days exciting. One week later, we were collecting trash from Wendy’s at two in the morning—desperately searching for large soda cups while…

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• The Daily Report

  Philadelphia remembers those who died homeless

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Dec 21st, 2007 | Category: Events | Tags: jeffrey hill, homeless, dignity housing, city hall, died homeless, michael a. nutter, trans-health information project, homeless vigil | 0

  Under the steel towers of Philadelphia’s Center City construction, a candlelight vigil was held to commemorate Homeless Memorial Day. The Homeless Advocacy Project, in conjunction with over 25 organizations that include Project H.O.M.E., The Salvation Army, The Tenant Union Representative Network, Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service and Dignity Housing, brought close to 100 concerned citizens to the doorstep of City Hall in Dilworth Plaza to remember the 71 men and women who lost their…

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• NAC News

  Hipsters, gunshots, homeless, green building, more—TNAC news and links 10.11.2007

  Hayley Richardson | Thu, Oct 11th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | City: NAC News | Tags: commentary, homeless, hipsters, smart fortwo, newark, shotspotter, honolulu, staten island, immigrants and cities | 0

  Trends: Hipsters migrating to Staten Island

  Where there’s cheap real estate, there’s a hipster, judging by the bohemian-style renaissance taking place in the once forgotten borough.

  New technology pinpoints location of gunshots

  Several cities, including violence-plagued Newark, are adopting Shotspotter, a system that enables police to pinpoint the coordinates of a shot being fired within seconds, thereby decreasing response time.

  European Car Company set for October 11th…

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