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Denver nonprofit testing $1000 monthly payments as a potential answer to homelessness The Denver Basic Income Project and The University of Denver are testing a theory that $1,000 monthly payments can alleviate poverty and homelessness. and last updated 2021-05-02 15:59:32-04 DENVER, Colo. — The circumstances that lead to homelessness is a problem Denver is trying to solve. A new project wants to find out if $1,000 direct payments to people living on Denver's streets could be one of those solutions. "People across the country are recognizing the huge benefits of basic income," said Jes...

  MONTREAL -- The Conservative Party of Quebec has a new leader, and its someone with more name recognition than the party itself. “I want to stand up for ordinary people,” said columnist and radio host Eric Duhaime after winning the job with an overwhelming portion of the votes after a six-month race that was held entirely online. In his victory speech, the new leader of the right-wing party said he intends to defend those who “have been treated as toothless because they don't agree with what is being done by the government or who are being treated wrongly as conspiracy theorists ...

/ Organizers of the Point-in-Time count of people experiencing homelessness in Denver, Boulder and the seven-county metro region have called off the 2021 count for unsheltered people. A count of the sheltered population only will take place on Feb. 25. The annual survey of people experiencing homelessness is mandated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and is a major source of data, providing a snapshot of the scale, experience and demographics of regional homelessness. The data is also used to secure funding and service resources. Organizers in Fort Collins say they will condu...

Ohio Valley ReSource Caseworkers who work directly with West Virginia’s homeless population conducted the annual point-in-time count last week, measuring the number of individuals experiencing homelessness on one of the coldest nights of the year. “Most people who are going to be sheltered are sheltered during the last ten days of January,” said Matt Hedrick, who coordinates the count for the West Virginia Coalition to End Homeless. “The people we find on the street… have nowhere else to go.” The count measures people either staying in shelters or on the street. And it has been ad...