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investigating homelessness

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Q & A: Investigating Police Responses to Homelessness

by Sarah Mirk • January 31, 2022

Data reporter Melissa Lewis is interviewed about a recent podcast for Reveal, which investigated what happens when local residents call police on unhoused people in their neighborhood, analyzing arrest data across six major US West Coast cities with large homeless populations.

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How Journalists Tracked Down Missing Data to Change the Conversation on Homelessness

by Hannah Coogans • April 21, 2021

Journalist Maeve McClenaghan was scrolling through Twitter when something caught her eye: a post from a local community member about a homeless person’s death. Digging deeper, she soon realized no one was collecting the relevant data to build a nationwide picture of how many homeless people were dying across the UK, sparking an 18-month investigation involving a network of over 1,000 contributors.

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