Archive for December 2024

After 38 years, Dr. Dennis Long, Professor in the Social Work Department and one of Xavier’s most senior faculty will retire at the end of the academic year.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said federally required tallies taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless — a number that misses some people and does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own.

Incoming Washtenaw County Sheriff Alyshia Dyer, a former social worker, plans to partner with Prosecutor Eli Savit to advance reforms that were siloed in different parts of the justice system. Above: Dyer is sworn in by District Court Judge Erane Washington

The report by social policy consultant Mary Higgins found on-street services were undermining regulated services and exposing vulnerable people to “undignified” and “unsafe” conditions. Groups “do not have the skills or experience to engage with people who are homeless, and there are examples of their interventions undermining the work of mainstream providers and possibly supporting people to remain on or return to the streets”, she said.

Nelly Jiménez-Arévalo, executive director and CEO of ACLAMO, stands in front of new playground equipment for preschool children.

Reading the book as an Irish person, one is struck by just how much is left out, rather than how much insight is gained. But given that there is no one canonical text on the Troubles, Say Nothing has in some ways stepped into this void, serving as many people’s first and only insight into the conflict. Now that Keefe’s already accessible history is available as streaming TV, its influence is only likely to grow.

Published in Nature Cities, the study revealed the problem worsened following changes to the housing market triggered by the 2008 global crash. And since 2017 it has been “expanding in scope and severity” to affect a broader array of US cities including Portland (OR), Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Philadelphia, as well as large urban areas such as Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco.

Madoshi described how she finds it difficult to watch the wealthy and powerful propose, with cavalier attitudes, to take her sole livelihood away from her. A critical, load-bearing social program, of the utmost importance to the well-being of Madoshi and tens of millions of retired Americans like her, is under incessant attack. These threats are soon to be intensified