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8 years of misery under failed Republican policies, coupled with barriers and obstacles put in place as punitive measures to keep hopeless, poverty-stricken, desperate people even further down. A housing crisis beyond comparison. An economy in turmoil and freefall. Gas prices set to enrich the privileged few at the expense of the many poor.

"If you're not in Care Not Cash, you can't make a reservation for a bed and you're thrown into this Byzantine system where every day you have to stand in line and try to find a bed."

This "Byzantine system" is exactly

Another homeless camp model to examine, since Nashville is considering establishing a better camp setup than the one currently slated for demolition.

latest on the closure of Tent City has Public Works pushing the drop-dead date back to the middle, or even towards the end, of September now.

Just one more step remains to finish work on the widening of the intersection of Colloredo Boulevard and North Main Street, according to city officials. Paving at the intersection was completed...

Forget about the traditional method of placing folks into housing. It takes far too long, has way too many barriers, is extremely expensive and has a very low success rate.

I have been terribly remiss in writing about a story taking place on Music Row, where the City wants to take the business of a woman for the development of an office and retail high-rise.

268 folks divvying up $1.5 million - about $5,600 each. It's probably safe to assume that the individual person total will be more money than the combined total of all property lost or destroyed for everyone who suffered through this egregious but "official" vandalism.

The Mayor of New York City has just “ordered the city’s more than 100 agencies to provide language assistance in six foreign languages.”

While there may be some logic to this for New York City, no one can deny that it will increase costs significantly at each of those 100 agencies. And who will pay those costs?