Los Angeles Votes to Raise Sales Tax to Fund Homeless Services
Los Angeles County voters have chosen to pass Measure A, which will raise sales taxes by a quarter of a percent to fund homeless services.
Los Angeles County voters have chosen to pass Measure A, which will raise sales taxes by a quarter of a percent to fund homeless services.
Singer Jelly Roll and his team made a caring gesture on Friday in Charleston, West Virginia, to neighbors in need.
Voters in Los Angeles are expressing skepticism of Measure A, a ballot initiative that would raise sales taxes in the county to provide more services to the homeless, expanding Measure H, which was passed by referendum in 2017.
A Colorado county has gotten almost every homeless person off of the streets by enacting a “Handouts Don’t Help” initiative amid the nearby city of Denver’s all-out homeless and drug crisis.
The United States is reportedly on pace to hit another record in 2024 regarding the homeless population.
A group of New York City Department of Education workers are accused of taking their own children to Disney World and on other trips that were supposed to be for disadvantaged students.
The historic Jay Littleton Ball Park in CA that served as the backdrop of the film ‘A League of Their Own’ burned to the ground on Thursday.
A generous trucking instructor in Minnesota is making sure community members have the skills they need to gain a better future.
A New York City homeless woman allegedly tried to abduct two toddlers from a Manhattan playground in broad daylight, police saying she has a long criminal record full of assaults.
New Yorkers are still sounding the alarm about their neighborhoods being flooded by homeless people brazenly doing drugs, defecating, shoplifting, and even having sex on public benches.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has ordered city officials to offer homeless people bus tickets out of town before offering them shelter or housing — a controversial policy that shunts the city’s homeless problem onto other towns.
More working Americans are going homeless amid “Bidenomics,” says a July 28 report in the Washington Post, which also noted that policy experts admit the homeless crisis is being made worse by the Democrats’ pro-migration policies.
France has reportedly been loading homeless immigrants onto buses by the thousands and shipping them out of Paris ahead of the Olympics.
A family in Concord, New Hampshire, is at a loss of what to do about a growing homeless encampment that is directly behind their historic house.
Homelessness has declined in Los Angeles for the first time in six years, according to the results of the latest homeless count, conducted earlier this year.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday that it is not “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment to remove homeless people from encampments and to imprison them for repeatedly violating anti-camping laws.
The battle against homelessness in the Portland, Oregon, area reportedly came with a high cost in 2023, with most of the money going to temporary shelter, services, and housing placement.
A new high-rise residential tower for the homeless that cost $600,000 per unit to build opened Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles.
A 30-year-old man was randomly slashed in the neck in an unprovoked attack by a New York City homeless man, police said.
A New Orleans, Louisiana, teenager has beaten the odds by becoming valedictorian of his high school while living in a homeless shelter.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) promised in 2023 to deliver 1,200 “tiny homes” to help shelter the homeless in several California cities — but none has opened yet, according to a report in CalMatters.
The man who literally redrew the skyline of the city that never sleeps before shocking the world by winning the presidency in 2016 said Thursday at a hometown rally in the Bronx that he’s never seen his former home in such bad shape as it is now under Democrat rule.
The suspect accused of killing a homeless man with an ax earlier in 2024 has been accused in a similar incident in Seattle, Washington.
Officials in Oakland, California, removed traffic lights from an intersection and replaced them with stop signs amid rampant thefts some attribute to a homeless encampment.
A fence was set up Thursday around a homeless encampment in Burien, Washington, after tents spilled over into a nearby parking lot.
Homeless alcoholics are getting free beer and vodka under a taxpayer-funded pilot program in San Francisco.
A huge fire erupted overnight at an RV dealership in Santa Fe Springs, California, after a suspicious person was seen at the lot around 12:30 a.m.
Doctors in Oregon are reportedly seeing a rise in pregnant women using fentanyl, which is ultimately causing newborns to begin their lives struggling with withdrawal symptoms.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass implored wealthy residents of the city to donate money to purchase property that can be used to house the city’s homeless population, which has continued to grow.
Nolte: Residents of Democrat-run San Francisco must now obtain permits for planters used to keep the homeless away.
A 12-year-old boy in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been working hard for a long time to put smiles on the faces of homeless children at Easter this year.
The Florida House has passed a bill to prevent homeless individuals from sleeping in public places like sidewalks and buildings.
An elderly couple’s plans to retire and move into their dream home to take care of their disabled son have been foiled by a squatter who refuses to leave the $2 million New York City property.
Since Democrats in Oregon decriminalized drug use in 2020, reality hit hard and they are now seeking to recriminalize it.
City leaders in Portland, Oregon, recently bought 100 tiny home pods for the homeless that came with a hefty price tag, but are said to be made of quality materials.
The Seattle homeless man facing charges for carving out a hillside in a city park now appears to be homesteading there.
More than 2,000 homeless individuals died in Los Angeles in 2023 — a nearly 300 percent increase in deaths from 2014, according to officials.
NBA legend and TNT basketball host and analyst Charles Barkley slammed the Democrat-controlled city of San Francisco during Sunday night’s NBA All-Star game, saying, “You can’t even walk around” the city due to “homeless crooks,” unless you have “a bulletproof vest.”
Sacramento has cleared out all homeless people out of a downtown park ahead of use for the filming of an upcoming Leonardo DiCaprio movie.
The number of homeless veterans rose more than 7 percent from 2022 to 2023 — the largest yearly jump since the government began tracking the metric more than a decade ago, according to a recently released government study.