On the 46th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Fight for Abortion Access Continues

Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark decision affirming the constitutional right to an abortion in Roe v. Wade, we've seen states pass over one thousand restrictions that make it harder for women to have an abortion. In just the first six months of 2018, 11 states enacted 22 new medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion. A Kentucky lawmaker recently introduced a bill that bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected and about half a dozen other states are currently considering bills like it.

By Maya Ingram

46 years since Roe v. Wade. Photo of a group of young women standing side-by-side.

Open Letter: End California's Poverty Crisis

Dear Governor Brown, Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon: Today at the United Nations, Phillip Alston, the special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, condemned the U.S. and the state of California in a report that details failures to protect the

By Clarissa Woo Hermosillo

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A Moral Rot Among Riches: The UN investigates homelessness and poverty in the U.S.

Philip Alston, the​ United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, travels the world to investigate horrific living conditions. On a recent fact-finding trip, he found people barely surviving in vermin-infested homeless encampments, a devastating scarcity of affordable housing and municipalities that make it a crime to be homelessness, as if that could be a cure. He even spotlighted the fact that dental care was so scarce for the poor that he saw people who had lost all their teeth.

By Eve Garrow

UN Special Rapporteur visits Skid Row

Housing, Not Fences and Boulders

Driving to work every morning, I’ve watched as the homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River and the 57 Freeway has mushroomed. I know its days are numbered.

By Eve Garrow

OC Homeless

Trying to Preserve Mental Health While Homeless in Laguna Beach

The following was first published in the Voice of OC

By Eve Garrow

Mike is homeless in Laguna beach (Photo: Veena Hampapur)

What Will it Take for Orange County to End Homelessness?

The following was first published in the Voice of OC. 

By Eve Garrow

Nowhere to Live

Biking While Homeless

A version of the following blog appeared in the Voice of OC

By Eve Garrow

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Los Angeles Should Embrace, Not Punish Street Vendors

By Benny Grush

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Homeless and forgotten, stories from the Santa Ana riverbed

In Orange County more than 2,000 individuals are homeless on any given night. Many struggle to survive in communities that criminalize their mere existence yet provide no meaningful resources to help them move off the streets and into long-term supportive housing.

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