Homelessness

"We really tried hard to get a GOP speaker"

The Rise of the Can Thieves

The bad girls of Sunset magazine

5/14 Morning Communiqué

Convention Fact Check: Rumors and Realities

The Twins strike out against homelessness

Rock Burlesque Christmas Benefit for Kids with Fucked-Up Parents

Convention Fact Check

Rumors and Realities

Food Network Star Nipa Bhatt cooks at PSP tonight!

Act fast--there are still a few tickets left to tonight's People Serving People fundraising dinner.

Garrison Keillor's brother dies after fall at ice rink

Phillip Keillor, brother of Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor, died Friday after a fall on the ice in Madison, Wis. He was 71.

McKnight Foundation seeks nominations for community service award

Know someone who works hard to make our community better? Nominate them to win $10,000.

Online readers react to "Gimme Shelter"

Know someone who works hard to make our community better? Nominate them to win $10,000.

I Couldn't Live at Home

Know someone who works hard to make our community better? Nominate them to win $10,000.

Open Shutters

Photographing radical Faeries, elderly grandparents, and homeless kids, Keri Pickett pulls subjects from the edges of public awareness to the center of the frame

Mother Superior

The terrible compassion of Mary Jo Copeland.

Room at the Inn

Why does a housing program for the chronically homeless have trouble using up its vouchers?

The Last Place on Earth

After the final remaining Hmong refugee camp in Thailand closed, Minnesota greeted five thousand new residents with warm words and closed doors. Now many are homeless and struggling to survive.

The Invisible Ones

Despite budget cuts, two residences for homeless youth open in Minneapolis

Requiem for an Ex-Heavyweight

Ray Whebbe Jr., hustler, journalist, champion of lost causes, dies at 48

Bum-B-Gone™

For the homeless, sleeping under Twin Cities bridges is no longer an option

Austerity Forever

Health care took the most visible hits at the Legislature this year, and the future only looks bleaker: Linda Berglin, the only DFLer who stood and fought Pawlenty's cuts.

The Names: A Year on Minnesota's Mean Streets

Tonight is all about the names--or, in some cases, the lack of them

Tainted Love

Plans to open a West Bank homeless shelter hit another snag

Safe Harbor?

The Salvation Army plans to house prison inmates in a work-release program at its Minneapolis shelter

Zoned Out

Minneapolis bureaucrats put the kibosh on a West Bank homeless shelter

Dim Bulb

For years the Salvation Army's Harbor Light homeless shelter has been plagued by inept management, insufficient security, and unspeakable acts. And Hennepin County taxpayers are footing the bill.

Living Against the Law

Public camping has been prohibited in Minneapolis for years. Trouble is, for Westside and Chris, Little John and Gnat, there's no place else like home.

Families Without Homes

The work of rebuilding lives

Insecurity Blanket

Hennepin County asks homeless men to make themselves uncomfortable

"Be an Angel Project"

Hennepin County asks homeless men to make themselves uncomfortable

Chico's Gift Drive for Women in Crisis

Hennepin County asks homeless men to make themselves uncomfortable

Helter Shelter

Fresh air, a river at your feet, and stars on the ceiling: Home, sweet home. At least until Minneapolis cops raid your camp.

Class Dismissed

For kids caught between shelters and the street, the New Arrivals school has been a refuge from hunger, violence, and loneliness. Try telling that to the St. Paul School Board.

Move Along

For kids caught between shelters and the street, the New Arrivals school has been a refuge from hunger, violence, and loneliness. Try telling that to the St. Paul School Board.

THE NEW NOMADS

How do you solve a problem as intractable as homelessness?

Consider a HUD Home

How do you solve a problem as intractable as homelessness?

John Jiler: Sleeping with the Mayor: A True Story

How do you solve a problem as intractable as homelessness?

Salvation Army provides air conditioning, cold water to homeless

Just like in the extremely cold winter months, Salvation Army is providing shelter to homeless people, this time to avoid the extreme heat this week.

Reporter's Notebook: Is targeting chronic offenders ethical?

This week City Pages highlights ten of the city's chronic offenders -- the people who constantly commit low-level crimes in Minneapolis neighborhoods. These people are police and prosecution targets. But should they be?

Lauri Lyons: Home Is Where You Make It

This week City Pages highlights ten of the city's chronic offenders -- the people who constantly commit low-level crimes in Minneapolis neighborhoods. These people are police and prosecution targets. But should they be?

Readers respond to Mischke

This week City Pages highlights ten of the city's chronic offenders -- the people who constantly commit low-level crimes in Minneapolis neighborhoods. These people are police and prosecution targets. But should they be?

Minnesota homeless numbers soar

Source: Wilder Foundation​New data from the Wilder Foundation shows that homelessness in Minnesota is climbing again steeply. The non-profit's Wilder Research arm found 9,452 homeless adults, youth, and children in shelters, transitional housing, and on the streets, up from 7,751 in 2006. T ... More >>

Jon Bon Jovi geeks out on early childhood education

by Steve Cohen​Local media were all a-buzz when Jon Bon Jovi dropped in on the Minneapolis homeless shelter People Serving People before his concert yesterday. (See our slideshow of the concert here)"His visit opened the circle of people aware of our work much wider than we could have done in ... More >>

Drew Hastings

by Steve Cohen​Local media were all a-buzz when Jon Bon Jovi dropped in on the Minneapolis homeless shelter People Serving People before his concert yesterday. (See our slideshow of the concert here)"His visit opened the circle of people aware of our work much wider than we could have done in ... More >>

Wisconsin homeless man Nathan J. Kittoe dines on park geese

Via WikipediaFleeing Kittoe?​We will resist the temptation here to claim that we've found a solution to two problems: Feeding the homeless, and ridding public parks of geese that insist on crapping everywhere we try to sit and relax with a cold adult beverage on a hot summer's day. That said, ... More >>

Wisconsin homeless man Nathan J. Kittoe dines on park geese

Via WikipediaFleeing Kittoe?​We will resist the temptation here to claim that we've found a solution to two problems: Feeding the homeless, and ridding public parks of geese that insist on crapping everywhere we try to sit and relax with a cold adult beverage on a hot summer's day. That said, ... More >>

Growing Home: Ending Youth Homelessness

Via WikipediaFleeing Kittoe?​We will resist the temptation here to claim that we've found a solution to two problems: Feeding the homeless, and ridding public parks of geese that insist on crapping everywhere we try to sit and relax with a cold adult beverage on a hot summer's day. That said, ... More >>

Chris Baker signs off at KTLK-FM

Chris Baker quit yesterday.​Chris Baker no longer has a megaphone to pollute the airwaves every morning at KTLK-FM. He's off the air. Good riddance. In the name of ratings, this is a guy who once opined that a transgender man was a mutilated lesbian, and said that former Lakers star Magic Johnso ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern wants you to watch Bizarre Foods tonight and help the homeless

Travel ChannelWatch Zimmern eat bizarre foods and help the homeless​Andrew Zimmern has been encouraging everyone via tweets to watch the San Francisco episode of Bizarre Foods tonight to help out 100,000 Homes Campaign, a charity organization that battles against homelessness. For every viewe ... More >>

Sex-trafficking stereotype demolished by new research

Alarmists nationwide in denial