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Scotland's Sturgeon exits with pride, brickbats from critics
LONDON (AP) — Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed lawmakers for the last time as Scottish leader on Thursday, expressing pride in her government’s achievements to lessen poverty and inequality – but frustrated in her quest to make Scotland an independent country. ...
Maine's largest city opens new homeless shelter
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — After years of planning, Maine's largest city on Wednesday opened its new homeless shelter, shifting some homeless services away from downtown. The formal opening of the 218-bed Homeless Services Center comes as Portland grapples with hundreds of asylum...
Oregon lawmakers approve $200M for housing, homelessness
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers passed a sweeping $200 million housing and homelessness package on Tuesday, displaying a bipartisan will to tackle two of the state's most pressing crises. The vast majority of the funding — about $157 million — is aimed at boosting...
California to seek beds for mental health, drug treatment
SAN DIEGO (AP) — California voters would decide whether to fund a major expansion of housing and treatment for residents suffering from mental illness and addiction, under the latest proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the state's homelessness crisis. Newsom announced Sunday...
Newsom pledges 1,200 tiny homes for California's homeless
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will spend about $30 million to build 1,200 small homes across the state this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday, part of a plan to help house the nation's largest homeless population and to address an issue that has persistently plagued the state...
Oregon Legislature advances $200M housing package
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon House lawmakers advanced housing legislation Wednesday to build housing that is more affordable, spend money to support unsheltered children and help people on the verge of losing residences. The bills head next to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where...
Californians await key decisions from reparations task force
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly two years into the California reparations task force’s work, the group still has yet to make key decisions that will be at the heart of its final report recommending how the state should apologize and compensate Black residents for the harms caused by slavery...
Georgia House seeks more improvements to mental health
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia House is pushing forward a plan aimed at doing more to recruit mental health care workers, and finding ways to help people who bounce between hospitals, jails and homelessness. Representatives voted 163-3 on Thursday to pass House Bill 520, sending it to...
Oregon lawmakers propose $200M for homelessness, housing
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon have proposed a $200 million spending package to tackle homelessness and housing as the state struggles to build more homes and move a growing number of people off the streets. “Affordable housing has to be our number one...
Pritzker calls for universal preschool in Illinois by 2027
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker called Wednesday for making preschool available to every 3- and 4-year-old in Illinois within four years, arguing that the state's improved financial picture allows it to not only invest in early education but also take on such problems as homelessness...
