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  • Open letter to SC Justice BR Gavai: Homeless people are most dispossessed citizens, not parasites

    Open letter to SC Justice BR Gavai: Homeless people are most dispossessed citizens, not parasites

    Harsh Mander
    · Feb 15, 2025 · 07:55 pm
  • Sleeping on the UK streets, addiction, inequality – and hope on a walking tour by the once homeless

    Sleeping on the UK streets, addiction, inequality – and hope on a walking tour by the once homeless

    MaryLou Costa, The Human Journalism Network
    · Sep 27, 2024 · 10:00 pm
  • What the story of two families says about the unchanging reality of living on the streets of Mumbai

    What the story of two families says about the unchanging reality of living on the streets of Mumbai

    Kalpana Sharma
    · Oct 18, 2022 · 09:00 am
  • Watch: How do social attitudes, policy failure worsen homelessness in the US? John Oliver explains

    Watch: How do social attitudes, policy failure worsen homelessness in the US? John Oliver explains

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 02, 2021 · 08:00 pm
  • Urban India’s paradox: The homeless risk death daily on the streets even as shelters remain empty

    Urban India’s paradox: The homeless risk death daily on the streets even as shelters remain empty

    Manipadma Jena
    · Nov 18, 2017 · 07:30 pm
  • Is it really criminal to steal food when you’re destitute?

    Is it really criminal to steal food when you’re destitute?

    Ruth Patrick, The Conversation
    · May 13, 2016 · 11:30 pm