In San Jose, how you get treated as a homeless person depends on where you end up on...
Bramson: Stopping the fall before it begins
Every day, thousands of Americans lose their homes. But the moment we notice the crisis is almost never the moment it begins. We see the tent on the sidewalk. The car parked overnight on a quiet street. The person waiting outside a shelter door. By then, the fall has already happened. What we rarely see are the weeks and months leading up to homelessness — the quiet instability that slowly erodes someone’s ability to stay housed. The rent increase that doesn’t quite fit the paycheck anymore. The medical bill that drains the savings account. The car repair that means missing...
