Policy & Legislation – Hot's N Cot's

Society Has Tried Everything. The Truth Behind Why Systems Keep Failing.

Economic Justice, Policy & Legislation / Hot's N Cot's

We have tried everything. We have tried punishing poverty — criminalizing sleeping outside, loitering, panhandling. We have tried ignoring it — cutting budgets, closing shelters, dismantling public housing. We have tried managing it — warehousing people in congregate shelters with 200 strangers and a 10 PM curfew. We have tried studying it — commissioning reports, […]

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Healthcare Is Not a Privilege. It Is What It Means to Be Human.

Health Equity, Policy & Legislation / Hot's N Cot's

In 2022, a 35-year-old man in Birmingham named Marcus went to the emergency room with chest pain. He sat in the waiting room for six hours, left without being seen because he couldn’t afford to miss another shift, and died of a heart attack three weeks later. He was uninsured. He had been, for most

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How Washington’s Decisions Are Putting Regular People on the Street

Housing & Homelessness, Policy & Legislation / Hot's N Cot's

In 2023, the United States saw its largest single-year increase in homelessness since tracking began. Over 650,000 people were counted as homeless on a single night — a number that experts agree dramatically undercounts the reality. Behind that statistic are hundreds of thousands of people who, six months earlier, had never been unhoused. They had

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