The Los Angeles City Council’s Homeless and Poverty Committee voted 4-1 Thursday to authorize a study for a controversial proposal by Councilmember Mike Bonin to build temporary shelters for the homeless at local beaches, among other sites.
California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a plan Tuesday to spend $12 billion on homelessness in his state as part of his $100 billion “California Comeback Plan,” promising to solve the problem of “family homelessness” within five years.
Eddie Johns, 70, who has struggled with homelessness for a decade, was a 1970s disco star who recorded the horn section that is sampled on Daft Punk’s classic dance hit “One More Time” — but he reportedly has never been paid his royalties.
ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has called Caitlyn Jenner an “ignorant a-hole” in response to the California gubernatorial candidate’s recent interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity during which Jenner addressed California’s population exodus and homelessness crisis.
Voters in Austin, Texas, adopted a proposition during Saturday’s elections to reinstate a ban on camping in certain public areas, a win for those seeking to address the city’s homeless who are living in tents along the streets.
Homeless encampments lined the sidewalks and parks near Union Station, the venue for Sunday evening’s Oscars, on Tuesday — 48 hours after the red carpet had been rolled up and the stars and media had gone home.
U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday ordering the city and county of Los Angeles to ensure that every homeless person living in the notorious Skid Row district has housing by October 18 this year.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) boasted Saturday that President Joe Biden is adopting his state’s policies on homelessness as the nationwide model by moving homeless people into hotel rooms and buying the hotels.
Dr. Drew Pinsky has been nominated to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, thanks to his vocal warnings that the crisis is primarily a problem of mental illness and drug addiction, not housing. But his nomination is proving controversial.
A former substitute teacher who fell on hard times and was living out of his car got help from one of his former students in the best way possible.
Los Angeles City Council member Mike Bonin has proposed sheltering the city’s growing homeless populations in facilities at local beaches on the Pacific Ocean, provoking the ire of local residents who rely on the beaches for recreation.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed plans to curtail the homeless epidemic by giving people vouchers to use to rent apartments in the city.
The city of San Francisco will use a $125 million budget surplus to fund “cultural equity” in the arts and help “undocumented families.”
Los Angeles has opened its first tiny homes village in an effort to tackle homelessness, the Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday.
SF is spending $16.1 million for 262 tents for the homeless — an investment that breaks down to $190 a night or $61,000 per tent per year.
A Utah homeowner is allowing the homeless to camp in his front yard, use the restroom in his house, and volunteer at a community garden that he runs.
Police arrested a 40-year-old man in Toulon, France, after a severed head was thrown out of a window.
President Biden signed an executive order on Thursday that could have American taxpayers covering 100 percent of the cost of “homeless hotels” through September in cities such as San Francisco.
An Antifa group in Seattle explains how they are helping a local motel owner by not paying rent. The group is occupying 15 of the Travelodge’s rooms after checking in and paying only the first night’s rent.
Officials in Redondo Beach, California, are turning to tiny homes to help solve the city’s homelessness problem.
Videos tweeted by a Seattle journalist shows the fortification of a homeless camp ahead of a police sweep scheduled for Wednesday. One of the videos show Antifa members wearing black bloc chasing the camera crew from the area.
NYC residents are complaining about huge rats scurrying around Central Park and in neighborhoods, with many blaming on the virus lockdown.
The Trump administration on Monday released a national plan to address homelessness across the country, including racial disparitites.
The Canadian city of London, Ontario, is using artificial intelligence (AI) software to predict which residents are most vulnerable to becoming homeless so it can rush emergency financial assistance to them — The city government sees homelessness as a growing problem because of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to NGO Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF), 55 per cent of those living on the streets of the Paris region might be infected with the Wuhan coronavirus, the vast majority of them migrants.
A homeless woman who has battled drug abuse, addiction, and abandonment successfully applied for a job at a Tennessee Kroger after sleeping in the store’s parking lot.
A homeless encampment in New York City has thrived on a street corner in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio learning about the encampment three weeks ago and vowing to take action “right away.”
A man who used to live on the streets of San Antonio, Texas, has turned his life around, battling addiction and homelessness to get a job as a maintenance man cleaning downtown San Antonio’s streets.
Homelessness rose by 13% in Los Angeles County, and 14% in the City of Los Angeles itself, over the year ending in January, according to the annual homeless count released on Friday.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti blamed “institutional racism” for homelessness, though liberal California is entirely responsible for the nation’s rise in homelessness.
A Florida teenager has beaten the odds of homelessness to become the top graduating student in his high school class.
Deaths have soared among the homeless population in San Francisco during the coronavirus, but not due to the virus directly.
The City of San Francisco opened its first officially-sanctioned homeless camp this week, located outside City Hall.
Half of the 15,000 hotel rooms leased under Operation Roomkey, California’s program to provide emergency housing to the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic, are empty.
The city of San Francisco is facing a lawsuit filed by the University of California Hastings College of the Law, local businesses, and local residents over the Tenderloin district’s “deplorable” conditions including feces in the streets and relentless drug dealing.
A report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that 66% of homeless people in a San Francisco shelter tested positive for coronavirus, renewing concerns about indoor housing during the pandemic.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti nearly broke down in tears as he delivered his annual “State of the City” address on Sunday evening in front of an empty City Council chamber.
San Francisco has canceled plans to move hundreds of homeless people to a large indoor space in a convention center after 70 people at a shelter tested positive for coronavirus. It will move homeless people to hotels instead — or leave them in tents.
Gerald Shiroma, a worker at the Union Rescue Mission homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles, died from coronavirus late last week, according to shelter director Rev. Andrew Bales.
In another setback for Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s effort to move homeless people into neighborhood recreation centers, a homeless individual who was sheltered at a rec center in Granada Hills has reportedly tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, igniting fears that the virus could start to spread like wildfire among the city’s homeless population.
