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Rukmini Callimachi

New York

Correspondent at The New York Times

Analyst at NBC News

New York Times journalist covering housing. Previously, 7 years covering ISIS & al-Qaeda, 7 years in West Africa. Ex-AP bureau chief. Ex-refugee.

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  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Blacki Migliozzi |Rukmini Callimachi

    The catastrophic fires that ripped through Altadena and the Pacific Palisades were among the most destructive in California's history. Months after the fires ignited on Jan. 7, thousands of people are still living in temporary accommodations and have not returned to their homes, including structures that are still standing. Was your home damaged or destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires?

  • 1 month ago | spokesman.com | Rukmini Callimachi

    After federal officials began a sweep of a vast forest in Oregon, most of the people who had used the woods as a last refuge had left. But they didn’t go far. With nowhere else to go, many drove their aging recreational vehicles to a different forest just a few dozen miles away. Advocates for the homeless estimate that there had been 100 to 200 people living in the original encampment on the outskirts of Bend, Oregon, a town that has been transformed by an influx of wealthy newcomers.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Rukmini Callimachi |Michael Hanson

    Dozens of people who lived in broken-down R.V.s in the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon set up camp nearby in different wooded areas, after they were ordered to leave or face jail and fines. A man prepared to leave his camp inside the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon. Credit... After federal officials began a sweep of a vast forest in Oregon, most of the people who had used the woods as a last refuge had left. But they didn't go far.

  • 1 month ago | pressdemocrat.com | Rukmini Callimachi

    Federal forest officials began clearing thousands of acres of forest just outside of Bend, Oregon, where more than 100 people live in RVs and cars — a move that one advocacy group called “the largest eviction of a homeless camp in recent history.” At around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, a phalanx of squad cars bearing the golden logo of the U.S. Forest Service arrived at the start of a logging road leading deep into a landscape of towering ponderosa pines and dusty green desert grasses in the Deschutes...

  • 1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Rukmini Callimachi

    Federal forest officials began clearing thousands of acres of forest just outside of Bend, Ore., where more than 100 people live in RVs and cars — a move that one advocacy group called “the largest eviction of a homeless camp in recent history.” At around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, a phalanx of squad cars bearing the golden logo of the U.S. Forest Service arrived at the start of a logging road leading deep into a landscape of towering ponderosa pines and dusty green desert grasses in the Deschutes...

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Rukmini Callimachi
Rukmini Callimachi @rcallimachi
3 May 25

Days after a sweep of the homeless in an Oregon forest, the people fleeing the sweep ended up down the road .. in another forest. https://t.co/EbNSZPyaQh https://t.co/4U8vMOsyle

Rukmini Callimachi
Rukmini Callimachi @rcallimachi
2 May 25

RT @rcallimachi: 1. Overnight, federal officials began what one advocacy group is calling "the largest eviction of a homeless camp in recen…

Rukmini Callimachi
Rukmini Callimachi @rcallimachi
14 Apr 25

RT @brian_goldstone: Homeless workers now have to submit *proof of employment* to be allowed to sleep in their cars in one of the richest c…