‘Real solutions are not cheap.’ Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert presents plan for 3,000 additional Permanent Affordable Housing units—and commits to tracking (and preventing) heat-related deaths.
After major cuts at FEMA and the National Weather Service, the role of local governments in protecting people from dangerous weather is growing even more important.
A close reading of the last week of Jessica Witzel’s life reveals predictable failures by public agencies, facilitated by the dehumanization that housed residents often direct at their unhoused neighbors. It also reveals possibilities for neighbors banding together to meet all residents’ ‘true level
Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?
After many months of fruitless efforts to get Jessica help, our case was finally moving. And for a couple days we were hopeful. Then the heat dome hit.
Deceleration · 15: Homelessness Advocate Molly Wright is on a Hunger Strike in San Antonio
‘When you’re homeless, you don’t have the energy to protest.’ What to do when
In just over 10 minutes, Deceleration.Live Episode 11 breaks down San Antonio City Council’s failure last week to protect local renters staring down a June 1, 2020, eviction
