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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pursuing a plan to house 6,000 homeless people in recreation centers during the coronavirus pandemic. But that plan ignores Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines on the subject.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti threatened “non-essential” businesses Tuesday that if they do not obey the city’s “stay at home” order to close during the pandemic crises, he will cut off their water and their electricity.

Community leaders are demanding answers from city officials as the City of Los Angeles continues to implement a plan to move homeless people indoors into recreation centers in residential areas during the coronavirus outbreak.

Breitbart News visited two recreation centers in Los Angeles on Monday where the homeless are being moved as part of the city’s plan to keep coronavirus from spreading among that population.

Mayor Eric Garcetti is going ahead with a plan to move thousands of homeless people in Los Angeles into recreation centers in residential neighborhoods as part of the city’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

California attorney and Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon blasted her hometown of San Francisco over its response to the coronavirus outbreak in a series of tweets on Tuesday.

Scott Presler, whose goal is to clean up U.S. cities, said it is wrong to help illegal immigrants while ignoring homeless Americans.

CLAIM: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seemingly blamed President Trump for the roughly 500,000 Americans who are living homeless today.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed allowing doctors to prescribe housing akin to medication as part of a five-point plan to combat the state’s growing homelessness epidemic.

California Governor Gavin Newsom admitted Wednesday in his second annual “State of the State” address to the legislature in Sacramento that homelessness is a “disgrace” in the Golden State, and laid out a plan to address it.

Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger thanked President Donald Trump and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson for taking part in a homelessness summit and helping the state with the chronic problem of homelessness in the state.

Singer Justin Bieber gave back to a Los Angeles women’s shelter by filming a music video to raise awareness of single, homeless women while also giving out supplies and a car to those in need.

Scott Presler is devoted to two causes: re-electing President Donald Trump and cleaning up the filth lining the streets of American cities.

Homelessness is the number one issue for California voters heading into the 2020 presidential primary in March, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), as reported by the Sacramento Bee.

Newly-installed San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin summarily fired seven key felony prosecutors on Friday, despite campaign promises to clean up violent crime in the city.

In San Francisco, workers who help the homeless have the names of 236 people who have severe mental illness and 4,000 on a larger list.

Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and Democrat 2020 candidate, wants Americans to provide cheap housing to illegal immigrants.

New Mexico came out in HUD’s 2019 report on homelessness as the state with the largest increase in that demographic in the country.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti reportedly reached out this week to the Trump administration to ask for federal assistance in dealing with the city’s homeless population, which has been growing rapidly and posing a severe public health hazard.

Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that he is seeking $750,000 in a fund that includes taxpayer money to pay rent for the homeless.

California Governor Gavin Newsom congratulated his state in a tweet on New Year’s Day that claimed: “We’ve accomplished so much in CA by standing up for our values and taking on some of the biggest issues.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom boasted about his state’s effort to fight the crisis of homelessness in the state, as President Donald Trump criticized California politicians for the second day in a row for neglecting the problem.

President Donald Trump slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom in a Christmas Day tweet for doing “a really bad job of taking care of the homeless population in California.”

An activist group is planning a $3 billion city that includes dorm-style accommodations, communal televisions, and underground tunnels to house California’s homeless.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported Friday that the nation’s homeless population rose 2.7% as of January 2019, an increase it said was “entirely” driven by a rise of 16.4% in the state of California.

Newsom on homelessness: “It is an embarrassment, it is unacceptable. And we’ve got to own it, we’ve got to own up and solve it.”

The director of a Seattle homelessness agency has resigned after her office’s annual conference featured a transgender stripper who danced topless and gave lap dances.

A Seattle public official has been placed on paid leave after it was reported she hired a transgender stripper to dance topless at her agency’s annual homelessness conference.

San Francisco’s homeless population living in vehicles has increased 45 percent in the last year, and now the city is opening a parking lot.

New York City is dealing with its homeless problem by relocating those sleeping in the streets or in shelters to other American cities.

A local council in Dorset, England, shut down a charity group that handed out hot meals to the homeless because they didn’t have a licence, threatening the group with prosecution.

White House officials are reportedly preparing a plan for federal intervention in California to save the state from the growing homeless crisis.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Monday that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) lacked “basic manners” in penning a letter to President Donald Trump last month saying his “shamelessness knows no bounds.”

The head of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015, has left his post at a time when the Trump administration has signaled it is seeking solutions to address the problem in cities beleaguered by the problem, including Los Angeles.

New figures reveal that around 678,000 people in Germany are now without access to a permanent residence, with tens of thousands currently living on the street. The report, released by the German Federal Working Community (BAG), shows that in 2018 there

A columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted just how horrific the homelessness crisis is in California and and one Oakland encampment where over the past two weeks 75 trucks to hauled out a staggering 250 tons of trash.