Houselessness Policy & Current Events
Many West Coast cities face lawsuits over whether enforcing outdoor sleeping bans violates constitutional protections.
What are anti-camping or public sleeping laws?
The Trump administration attempted to repeal this major 2010 healthcare law but failed in Congress in 2017.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Many undocumented residents avoid enrolling in health or housing programs because they fear their information could be shared with this federal immigration enforcement agency.
What is ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)?
This was the name of our recent event at the Skid Row Refresh spot on Valentine’s Day.
What is Cuts n Care?
This country won the most medals in the Winter Olympics
What is Norway? (18 gold medals, 41 total medals)
Debates around clearing encampments often center on whether cities must provide shelter options before enforcing removal policies.
What is the right to shelter debate?
Some politicians are proposing requirements that certain Medicaid recipients prove employment or community engagement to keep coverage — a policy often discussed in news debates.
What are Medicaid work requirements?
California recently expanded this state health program to include many low-income adults regardless of immigration status, a policy widely covered in LA news.
What is Medi-Cal expansion to undocumented adults?
This Cold War doctrine promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism, first applied in Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This many players per team are on the ice at one time in Olympic ice hockey (including the goalie)
What is 6 players?
States like California are investing billions into behavioral health housing and treatment infrastructure as part of broader homelessness strategies.
What are behavioral health or mental health housing initiatives?
Recent headlines have focused on this federal government negotiating prices directly for certain high-cost drugs used by older adults through this public insurance program.
What is Medicare?
LA policy debates often discuss whether clearing encampments without enough housing options pushes vulnerable groups, including undocumented residents, further away from healthcare and outreach.
What are encampment sweeps or enforcement policies?
Mount Kilimanjaro sits near the border of this East African country and Kenya.
What is Tanzania?
The first Winter Olympics were held this year (plus/minus 10 years)
What is 1924?
Local leaders increasingly frame homelessness policy through this lens, arguing that stable housing reduces emergency healthcare spending.
What is housing as healthcare?
Many news stories warn that millions could lose coverage if pandemic-era protections that paused eligibility checks are not replaced with new policies.
What is Medicaid unwinding / eligibility redeterminations?
Local headlines frequently highlight these groups working outside traditional clinics to reach unhoused immigrants who may avoid hospitals.
What is street medicine or mobile outreach healthcare?
This hypothetical faster-than-light particle has never been observed but appears in physics thought experiments.
What is a tachyon?
This sport, often considered the most dangerous, saw a competitor killed during a practice run at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
What is Luge?
This major current debate asks whether homelessness should be addressed primarily through public safety measures or through this alternative policy framework.
What is a public health–focused approach?
Current election debates often frame healthcare around whether the U.S. should move toward a single national system or keep employer-based private insurance.
What is the universal healthcare vs. private insurance debate?
Los Angeles uses a coordinated system to match unhoused residents with housing resources, but advocates debate how personal information is collected and shared.
What is the Coordinated Entry System (CES)?
What is 26?
This nation is the only one to win medals at the Winter Games but never at the Summer Games.
What is Liechtenstein?